Dear Jed,
I wouldn't use the "digital" designation either.
It's been approximately 30 years since we went digital.
I don't think the nature of our tools, or the nature of our medium
matters that much (in comparison with the design of the last 30 years).
But one thing is for sure: the "digital" enabled this current age of
symbiotic relationships between designers, computers, and networks (and
I'm talking about the relationships resulting from all of the
combinatorial possibilities of these three elements).
If anything, design is currently an extremely self-referential activity,
and the references and connections happen through the digital veins of
this massive organism we call culture, in something that can eventually
be called distributed creativity.
And the symbiosis is vital: no designer can survive nowadays without a
computer nor without a functioning internet connection.
On 2015-05-22 17:36, Gunnar Swanson wrote:
>> On May 22, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Jed Looker <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Speaking purely from personal observation as a practicing designer,
>> future academics may consider this period of design to be the
>> beginning of the digital era.
>
>
> Jed,
>
> Does "the digital era" have any attributes other than the use of
> digital equipment? How would someone identify digital era work from
> previous work? How does the current beginning of the digital era
> account for previous digital production (from, presumably, before the
> beginning of the digital era)?
>
>
> Gunnar
>
> Gunnar Swanson
> East Carolina University
> graphic design program
>
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