Institute for Interactive Design

A huge thanks to Mark and Bianca—professional 3D animator and commercial producer…for coming in this week to expose 10th graders to industry standards with Q&A!

And to Madeline—NVD alumni and professional UX/UI designer for allowing 9th graders Q&A as well!

Our students had awesome questions and dynamic conversation. Looking forward to the next guest speaker !

Our first club meetings for both Old Tappan and Demarest will take place this Thursday!

Please note that Demarest will take place after school (B221) and Old Tappan will take place during lunch (F106)

See you all there!

👏👏 One of our 9th grade student's "Design Solution" concepts from earlier this year...

PROBLEM: Apple's Storage Management System

DESIGN SOLUTION: Send a pop up message as a notification instead of a restrictive air message. Also, create a feature where the warning would come up in advance at the top of the camera screen. All messages would be given in advance, before the user completely runs out of storage.

👏👏 One of our 9th grade student's "Design Solution" concepts from earlier this year... PROBLEM: Apple's Storage Management System DESIGN SOLUTION: Send a pop up message as a notification instead of a restrictive air message. Also, create a feature where the warning would come up in advance at the top of the camera screen. All messages would be given in advance, before the user completely runs out of storage.

We love animation!

New content alert❗❗❗ Be prepared to see some AWESOME 10th grade Kinetic Typography projects this week

An amazing Kinetic Typography Design that one of our Demarest student's created!

It's safe to say that we crushed this project! such impressive designs

Photo Montage Original Piece

A full photo collage created from scratch! A truly impressive photo montage🐠🐬

Pop Art Projects!

Warmer weather is coming, and that means it's almost ice cream season🍦 (Pop Art!)

Happy Presidents Day!

"Andy Warhol Pop Art" inspired illustrations from a very talented 9th grade student in our OT class! 😮🎨🧡💜💚

This 9th grade NVD student truly captured the flavor and brand of Starbucks' products in this design. Doesn't this advertisement make you want an iced latte right now?!

We are focusing on creating design solutions for current apartments that will fit the individual needs of a specific user group. We are on a journey of building these designs in a 2D space, to 3D, and to lastly implement Augmented Reality.

A self-reflective photo montage. In this design, advanced color theory was implemented through a monochromatic purple color scheme.

Our student included a portrait of herself, and even a photo of her own dog!

Did you know that purple and yellow are complimentary colors? Complementary colors are pairs of hues that contrast with each other more than any other color, and when placed side-by-side, make each other look brighter.

Project: Advanced Color Theory- Photo Montages

Whether created for social media or billboard size, one of Old Tappan's 9th grade students designed an exciting and creative approach to advertise Monster's Energy Drinks.

10th grade student project highlight from our Demarest class.
A fully-illustrative apartment design created on Adobe Photoshop through a digital painting technique.

A 10th grade student project highlight from our Old Tappan program. This is a fully illustrative design created on Adobe Illustrator using the "gradient mesh" technique.

A few 9th grade mobile app redesign projects!

Here is another student's successful mobile app design. This student developed a brand called "Furever Family" based on pet adoption, and finding the ret pet for you. Wonderful work!

Some featured screenshots from an IIDT student's mobile app design. The student developed a brand based on health and nutrition called, "Food for Thought". A truly successful design.

A few screens of an IIDT student's mobile app layout.
The student has developed a brand called "Animator", with the intent to turn your drawings into animated artwork.
This was part of a multi-step "Brand Development" project that the students have been creating over the last few months.

Career Classroom: Program prepares students for high-demand, tech-focused — and artistic — careers | ROI-NJ Mobile app engineer. User interface designer. Virtual reality developer. Augmented reality programmer. These are among the high-demand jobs of today, with continued growth expected in the future. Since September, a small group of high school freshmen have been learning the skills for these high-tech...

One of our 9th grade IIDT students has utilized 3D text to create a fantastic typography poster. The neon color palette compliments the design perfectly.

One of the IIDT students created a wonderful "Pop Art" illustration project.
This design utilizes contrasting colors, along with a 3-Dimensional approach. A truly wonderful design!

IIDT Student Highlight (Old Tappan): Michela

Below is Michela's Nextflix redesign for our "Design Solution" Photoshop project.
After analyzing some issues within Netflix's current user interface, Michela has developed a concept to improve their user experience. She added a play button and a play trailer button for users to have the choice to view the trailer, rather than the movie or tv show auto-playing. She also added a timeline for the trailer at the bottom to pause and play. Great work!

IIDT Student Highlight (Demarest): Sean

Sean is a 9th grade student in the new IIDT program at Northern Valley Regional High School- Demarest. Sean's art interests also include product photography. He takes his own photographs to post on social media!

Below are two of his most recent designs for our IIDT "Digital Advertisement" project. Sean has designed two different advertisements for existing companies in a very unique and creative way!

Two of the IIDT 9th grade students from NVRHS have done an outstanding job designing the front page cover for the Science Club's magazine issue.