Categories
development log

Wireframes for design layout

Wireframes for design layout This was the wireframe I ended up using for my website. I created this low fidelity wireframe myself using adobe illustrator. i made my layout fairly simple and uniform to each page, there are not many changes as i wanted the users to fully experience the art on the page and […]

Categories
development log

website research

On this Royal Art of college website, there are many things that resemble other websites and compartments that are recurring in most websites that relate to the history of design. In this case it is the large header image that fills the entire webpage, this is a highly frequent design element used to showcase the […]

Categories
development log

Requirements Gathering and analysis

REQUIREMENTS GATHERING AND ANALYSIS Defining my target audience: My target audience is fairly broad, however it is mainly for people who are more interested in learning about the history of art and design and the impact it has had on modern art, this includes teachers, students and art professionals who may be looking to increase […]

Categories
development log

Style guide

Style Guide My final decision for the website branding was ‘art in time’. I liked this name as i felt it gave my page a nice flow between the old and newer pieces of art work, this could perhaps intrigue the intended audience even more as it would be more interesting to look at both. […]

Categories
development log

Defining the ux for my website

What My Website Is About The main feature of this website will be a scrolling homepage that uses 10 different photos to illustrate the timeline of the development of art and design. While educating the viewer on the time period and some key ideas within that art movement, the scrolling webpage will cover everything from […]

Categories
Web Design

Practical Exercises

Categories
Web Design

Brutalist, Punk, anti, anarchic design

BRUTALIST/ANARCHIC DESIGN https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&insightstokenThis artistic trend has influenced graphic design over the years. Its design philosophy and fundamental characteristics are extremely similar in that it avoids ornamentation in lieu of showing the basic components that were used to make it. In some aspects, minimalism and brutalism are similar, but minimalism strips the design down to its […]

Categories
Web Design

Maximalism, Kitsch and Jeff Koons

JEFF KOONS American painter, illustrator, and sculptor Jeff Koons finds inspiration for his works in children’s toys, cartoon characters, porcelain figurines, and celebration decor. He often creates sculptures of very easily accessible, ordinary objects on a larger scale with what seems to be very little thinking or significance behind them. A lot of these pieces […]

Categories
Web Design

Minimalist design and Zaha Hadid

ZAHA HADID Zaha Hadid was an Iraqi British architect who used abstracted paintings to visualize her concepts and buildings and bring them to life. She is most known for her radical and deconstructivism designs. She gained recognition once winning her entry for ‘the peak’, at this time people were more focused in on post modernism […]