I-Spy-Designs: June 2013

Friday, 28 June 2013

Functionality Research

Developments for an app. Extra navigation being added with model pop ups.

Premium Sports Animated GIF

Here is an example of how i would want my app to work.

Mascot designs

Logo/Mascot design for a client

I loved working on these, they are so CUTE!

Developments

Thursday, 20 June 2013

Eyes Illustration Waterpaint

Here is my eyes illustration in water paint :) Had lots of fun painting them :)

Wednesday, 12 June 2013

iOS 7 was announced on the 10th of June, by golly, i have my work cut out. All the interfaces i have completed recently will need a re-jig to fit the new iOS specifications. I admit i think its pretty, but its steering a little too far away from what make apple, apple. The whole skewmorphic design was their signature, it was so much different then anything else on the market, design wise anyway. The new design looks a bit like an apple knock off (A pretty one mind you).

It seems that apple has decided to take a back seat and try to perfect Andriods very square, very simple design. I don't know how well this will go down, im fairly sure there will be some die hard fans who refuse to update. Which will be a massive pain for UX and UI designers trying to cater for both.

One light at the end of the tunnel is that the app will be able to find which software your device will be accessing and can display everything accordingly. This - for the transitions phase- is great because all old designs will still be useful and can be viewed. But as iOS fizzles out a redesign is going to be necessary!

Im pretty shocked that apple has made this move, sure skewmorphisam has been criticised before, but it looked ok. The other parts of the interface im very happy for them to refresh, e.g the blue bar at the top for nearly everything, yikes whoever designed that must be shot. No, whoever allowed that to be on the OS should be shot!

I love how Apple seem to pinch bits and bobs from everwhere. They decided to pinch the andriod/windows 8 square simpleness and also the HTC's weather app interface. What was it Steve jobs said 'Good artists copy, great artists steal?'.

Im really glad they changed the design of the game centre. That was pretty darn awful. I know it was designed to look like a pool table-ish thing but it really looked atrocious!
One thing i think will be particularly uncomfortable is the 'Masses of whitespace' and 'White everything, toolbars, nav bars buttons etc'. Have you ever looked at your phone in the dark? How blindingly white it is usually? Now its even MORE white? Sounds like a recipe for early blindness.

Monday, 10 June 2013

Sports Logo's

New additions to my logo collection. These will be up on my site very soon. Im currently working on a premium sports app/mag so im trying to find the best logo to suit it.

Lemon, Lime and Orange Cakes

I've had a very busy weekend of baking. Here are the cupcakes i made. Im trying to make my icing as good as i can. They look yummy! And all 60 cakes have disappeared!

Saturday, 8 June 2013

BMW and Lloyds

All my work for BMW (check out the i8 coming this winter, amazing electric car!) and Lloyds bank is finished and signed off! Wow what a great start to the weekend! Will shortly be uploading these to my site when the NDA's are cleared :) woohoo!

Also new prospective work with a lovely client I met today with a great idea. I hope all goes well!