I am really sure that print and internet are slowly melting together in some way. Just have a look at the kindl or the ipad that allready offer full range newspapers and magazines. The design will change to make it more readable on screen and the texts will get more compact. In my opinion we will loose a lot of quality through this medium, but in the same time we will have the opportunity to have a wider range of information. Quantity instead of quality.
We dont really have a chance to stop this new media revolution because we are living in a world that is using the internet 24/7. So the only way to maintain quality is to find a solution between free and paid media. Quality needs to have a price otherwise it will fall appart.
I think that the printed media will behave like a lot of other old medias. It will become less but it will never dissapear. It will be a quality product that we are willing to pay mone. I am not able to believe that books for example will dissapear and will be repressed by the kindl.
There is just one category where i can see that coming and thats the area of academic books and magazines, where knowledge has to be practical and fastly approachable.
I know everyone is very busy with getting everything finished in time.
I would like a few minutes of your time to answer a few questions:
What effects will the internet have on printed media?
What are your views on the matter?
Do you think printed newspapers will be around in 20 years?, 50 years?, 100 years?
Can you name some advantages of printed media? Disadvantages?
Can you name some advantages of internet? Disadvantages?
Rupert Murdoch says “We intend to charge for all our news websites. I believe that if we are successful, we will be followed by other media”.
“Quality journalism is not cheap, and an industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalizing its ability to produce good reporting”. In order to stop readers from moving to the huge number of free news websites, Mr Murdoch said News Corp would simply make its content” Better and differentiate it from other people”.
Do you think that if we can access news content for free, that the public would pay for it? Would you pay for ‘quality journalism’?
Thank you very much.
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Anthony Greenfield
Hi Chaps,
I think we are all equally lumbered with work at the moment, so I promise to try and keep this post short!
After having my tutorial, I changed my focus area to The Power of the Brand. With my previous topic I had not completely thought about the fact that it was supposed to be focussed around design, and hadn’t considered thinking about the copyright of design, so I thought a chnage of topic was called for.
It wasn’t a complete subject change, because I had been looking at plagiarism before and had looked at Paperchase as an example… people automatically presumed that Paperchase were the original creators of that tote design (I mentioned this in our first meeting) just based on their reputation as a reliable and prominent brand.
Reputation does alot for a company, it can make or break you, determine how successful you will be, and of course, create brand loyalty. People will buy a product because of it’s brand, because of the associations a person has with that product and also because of the emotional ties that this product will then create regardless if it is actually the best of it’s kind.
What I want to look into is why does this happen, and how does this happen? Also I want to look into some examples of this and maaaaybe carry out some kind of research of my own. I am undecided though.
If anyone has any input (or examples) it would be very awesome!
- Charlie
After i needed a few days to resume my essay and just try to find my way into my theme i finally managed it.
I want to raise the question ones again. I design art?
This discussion is around since design and illustration exists and recently it reached typography as well. We see a lot of example of typography where we can ask ourselfes how usefull it still is of if its just made to look good.
If it has no purpose except of looking beautifull is it still design?
While I was reading your post, I thought about a japonese graphic designer, Shigeo Fukuda (1932-2009) who played a lot with meanings using only images, here it is some examples of his work:
I found your topic very interseting, in my opinion, the strongness of a design should be resumed in a couple of things to be effective, quickly unserstandable by the audience no matter their cultural or social backgrounds, which could mean designed without words…
Alice
He is a genius, really sees and translates the world in a special way.
I love each and every series.
Abstract City_ Christoph Niemann
I’ve been thinking about ‘image-based or screen-based generation’ and visual culture, but not quite sure whether it could be suitable for our debate or not. The way of life and culture is moving from words to images, and design might be occupying center of those issues.
Whilst I’d like to say not only about pictures but also ‘Blissymbolics’ and ‘Ideograph’ as like sign to figuring out how human perceive images or signs as communication. I’m wondering how we can communicate each other in the future.
I found some interesting example ‘text without type‘.
Whilst I’d like to say not only about ad but also ‘Blissymbolics’ and ‘Ideograph’ as like sign to figuring out how human perceive images or signs as communication.
And I think good or successful ads should not be necessary using words or interpretation. It should transmit its meaning clearly without words and should be understandable through all people. A few years ago, when I saw some ads of Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, I found some of those ads which were difficult to understand without translation or background. Is it necessary to translate?
If anyone has any opinions and suggestions, please share with me.
Thank you all
Alice (Keumyoun)
Whilst I think this is an interesting topic I have to say that I think it is a bit broad and touches on lots of kind of unrelated areas but is maybe not quite indepth enough yet to decide on one… (super sorry about the harshness in advance!)
Regarding Andrew Keen, I do greatly disagree, but I ranted about that on the first post on the blog and pretty much every time he gets brought up so I don’t want to bore you guys anymore!
Amateur v professional is tricky topic, mainly because we end up going round and round in circles. Whilst the issue is prominent, I don’t think that using newspaper v internet is a good comparison, because for example, there is a Times newspaper, but also a Times online, both with exactly the same content… same goes for The Guardian, The Telegraph right the way through to the Daily Mail. They all have websites, and the articles online are as reputable as the ones printed on paper.
Also I find when you said… “The journalists are struggling to earn a living because the amateurs are stealing their content and passing it off as their own…” kind of offensive! It is a massive generalisation, like saying everyone with an iPod downloads music illegally!
Just because something is written on the internet does not predetermine that it will be false or inaccurate. It is human nature to question sources. But ironically, it is the *people* who contribute to websites that can’t be trusted for accurate content. I know Andrew Keen, and most people, for that matter are not a fan of Wikipedia. But then some people would say why don’t we make it OUR responsibility to cross check the info we obtain?
(Also I had previously mentioned in a different post about how the content online is also now very permanent, some would say more permanent that newspapers. With websites such as Way Back Machine who aim to archive the whole internet, saving websites and their textual content forever. This blog for example, is already archived there (saving all of our conversations!))
In my opinion, there is no difference between reading something printed and reading something online, except that with the internet it allows alot of people, myself included, to be able to write and publish work to a *world wide* audience. If I were to print a newspaper I would be lucky to reach an audience as wide as East London, where as over 500 individual people a month read my blog.
Yes there are alot more amateurs apparent on the internet, but that is because without it, these people would go unnoticed by most given that this is the only place that gives the break-through, unsigned, commercially inviable a chance!! After all, everyone was an amateur at one point.
As for Mac v letterpress, I also think you can probably come up with a better comparison. Letterpress is a method and a Mac is a “tool” used to create. So they are not comparably the same…
I have just realised I have written loooads, If you have made it this far into my post, you are awarded a DD medal! I will make one for you. No really, I will. <3
- Charlie
Is the internet killing journalism? I am currently reading the Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen, he is passionate and ‘Keen’ (sorry) on spreading the message ‘How blogs, MySpace, YouTube and the rest of today’s user-generated media are killing our culture and economy”. I personally agree with Keen on many of his views regarding the subject, I am aware that he sometimes contradicts himself but lots of his points and reasoning behind his views are backed up, after all he is a professional. On my next post update I will share some of his views with you and I would like to hear your views and opinions and I know some of you have very strong opinions on Andrew Keen.
The battle that is taking place is between Amateur Vs Professional, but can they co-exist? The journalists are struggling to earn a living because the amateurs are stealing their content and passing it off as their own. If a journalist writes an article for a newspaper for example, the newspaper is a printed document, this is permanent. The newspaper does not want a bad reputation and the author includes their name. Someone is accountable, therefore we can often believe most of what we read in the newspapers (depending on the newspaper). The amateur on the other hand is often uneducated and copies content from other sources, often not sourcing the information and it is potentially false, inaccurate news and can often be anonymous. But we can access the amateurs information for free, on the other hand we have to pay money for a newspaper. Is this a price to pay? Free news but potentially inaccurate?
Whilst carrying out my letterpress induction I asked one of the technitians where letterpress will be in 100 years and they replied rather sadly it will be gone. As we are getting cleverer and technology is advancing, there are quicker, less time consuming techniques and processes available. Is the Apple Mac computer and the various design programs to blame for this old technique to get diluted until its mark will be lost forever? Is this a bad thing? I personally would say yes.
The point I am trying to surface is that as technology ‘improves’, we are losing traditions and professions that we have excercised for centuries. This in my eyes is a great shame. But everytime I buy a new car I am sad to see it go, I know I am getting a better, newer version but it is not always easy to let go and nostalgia kicks in.
Anthony Greenfield
(Click the image to enlarge… it’s way too small to read this size) How to be a good housewife in 18 easy steps! A spread taken from Good Housekeeping Monthly in 1955.
Interesting to see how times have changed! …Or have they!? Dun dun duuun!
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