After getting the brief with the different options on subject matters I picked out three different people to explore as an options of my essay to be based on. I started with Jessica Hische as I recognized the name from last year when completing my foundation year in Art and Design we were tasked with doing write-ups and talk about a piece of theirs. Below is my writing from last year, I enjoyed writing about her last year but decided that I should learn about someone else instead.
My interest in this work by Jessica Hische which I learned about in my Illustration class is an absolutely gorgeous book with amazing pieces on each page. This book is warm and welcoming with the colour palette being soft and gentle and the drawings having such a flow to connect them with the dynamic writing. One of my favorite pages of this book is the last photo of the page of bunnies as it is completed in a very effective way to make each stand out with the background glow to add even more warmth and love. ‘It’s super meditative for me. I like having constraints. I love the world of design and commercial art.’ (Wood, 2016) this is from an interesting interview where Jessica Hische talks about her love for the work and what is meaningful to her.
Wood, A. (2016). Jessica Hische, Letterer & Illustrator. [online] Wayswework.io. Available at: http://wayswework.io/interviews/jessica-hische-letterer-and-illustrator
After relooking at Jessica Hische, I began looking at others instead. Josef Müller Brockmann was the next person I looked at.
Josef Müller Brockmann is one of the most well-known Graphic designers, he was born May 9, 1914, he grew up in Switzerland. Where he studied Architecture, and Art & Design. After studying he began an apprenticeship under Walter Diggleman who was a Designer and Advertising consultant. After studying and training he went on to open his own studio in 1936, going on to become the ‘country’s leading practitioner and theorist of Swiss Style’. He is well-known for his designs and the impact he has had on designers around the world and is very frequently taught about in design courses.
But someone else interested me when we learned about him in class, was Don Norman, he is a very interesting man who has done a lot with his life, he has taught, is consultant, runs a company, is a public speaker, and has written a lot. But not just in one area but lots of different ones like, psychology, cognitive science, Electrical engineering, computer science, and design. The man has done a lot with his life, as a result I find him very fascinating so I decided to complete my essay on him and the impact he has had on User Experience. Below is a copy of my finished essay.
I also began working on the website design which I was basing off the designs of his books
These sketches were from an exercise we did in class that was time-limited sketches, it was very helpful for design generation.
We then took one further that I drew again in the top left corner and then the drawing was passed around so that everyone could create their version. This was helpful for ideas and to see how others think.
The one to the right is the one I decided to go with instead to build my website off, used the same font for the header but to emphasis words I made them a different weight. I used Inter here.
Here are some other more thought-out sketches that I could also do.
Below are so ruff Figma frames of mockups of the design, the photos are from the books and Unsplash. The colours were taken from the book. But I decided the yellow background was too strong so instead I made it more of a cream background instead.
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Week 12 - Critique For the critique I build a version on HTML as seen below, the changes I made in the design I talk about in the week 12 post the link is above to access it.
