Posts Tagged ‘media’

The Digital Revolution And Design

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

The digital revolution which is continuously taking place all the time has made it possible to encode any information which makes up a image, sound or a piece of text, so anything can be broken down and taken ‘back to basics’ due to the development of technology, clever use of technology can make it possible to manipulate, break down or connect any electronic images, sounds or texts.

This digital revolution makes grids, colours, formats and typefaces easy to process and then store and then these could be broken down and joined together with other pieces of information. As this evolution of technology continues more devices are produced which supports the electronic screen, which leads to more possibilities for information to be exchanged and re-produced, the sound of something can change e.g. a tone of a voice can be changed or modified so it is mixed with another voice.

Images can be broken down and put back together using parts of other images and photographs can be changed by manipulation if the pixels, the impact of electronic procedures are continuing to change the original outcomes and the culture of visual and verbal communication. 

Design, Writing And The Media

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

In the world of writing and the media, objects of design and design works have created opportunities for the construction of books and essays and developed the use of verbal as well as visual communication. This not only being the actual writing itself but the punctuation which comes with pieces of writing e.g. paragraphs, symbols, pauses, silences, comma’s, question marks, brackets, visual signs all relate back to design in some aspect even though they are part of verbal communication.

Writers verbally communicate using a typeface that was once designed in order for them to be able to write, the entire processes of visual and verbal communication link in together and compliment each other, different grids, typefaces and symbols in a piece of writing are important for their formal qualities but also play a symbolic role and help us to regulate our interpretation of the text as we read.

All of these aspects used in verbal communication have been produced by a designer to visually communicate within everything from magazines, books, journals, dictionaries and encyclopaedias, and as the development of design and types of media used continues to progress, these graphic symbols are also being seen on corporate images, posters, television and the internet.