Group Presentation - Technological Changes

A lot of it is what we all know and see every day, it seems like life would now be unthinkable without any form of technology what so ever showing just how much we depend on them. 

Its seems like technology has started to replace classic things, such as books, music, writing, we don't have to carry books with hundreds of pages any more, we can make music with little skill on computers, and we now type far more in the way of notes and work than we do handwrite it. But you can't smell or feel a book or written letter, or keep the ones that mean the most to you. 

This is all well and good for computer savvy people of the 21st century, but for some people it's getting more and more complicated, and leaving them behind. 

Technology over technique produces emotionless design - Daniel Mall

So how does all this affect a graphic designer? 

A much larger a wider range of knowledge is now needed from a graphic designer nowadays.

You could be asked to design an app for an iPhone - pretty specific knowledge. Even if you designed the way it looked and perhaps what you wanted it to do, you’d depend on someone else to actually make that happen and bring it to life

Opens up whole new areas which weren’t previously explored

Completely different set of skills to that of printing techniques and processes.

Interface design is becoming one of the most important - yet hardest, areas of design. 


But technology does have some outstanding qualities, one of the most useful things technology has done for design - being able to send files globally within seconds. Clients are able to work with people half way across the world, perhaps only ever communicating via phone, email etc. Just sending work back a forth. Cheaper than flying there for a chat.