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Times New Roman who???
I just want to start off by saying, I am thoroughly convinced that everything in this world is cultural. I’m assuming many individuals, if not intrigued by all things graphic design and/or technological, would opt out for the viewing of … Continue reading
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I had the chance to visit with my friend Melissa in Richmond on our week off before classes began. While walking down Carry Street, a prominent street with several successful businesses, I couldn’t help but identifying all of these different … Continue reading
Music is still Music
The beginning of Toward an Aesthetics of Transition conjured up some of those emotions from midnight, 1999. Y2K – chaos ensued and society was fearful that every computer would shut down…forever. We, as a society, always assume the worst. Surely, … Continue reading
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Same same but different
Can I first just point out the obvious irony of this line: “Will many of its noblest and most valuable functions–most forms of scholarship and research, dictionaries, encyclopedias–migrate to the computer?” Hmm, hard to say while reading a PDF version … Continue reading
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On the Edge
The World Wide Web has been around for many years, but is still in its infancy. In recent years, the average citizen has started to integrate it into his/her daily life. Students are abandoning libraries for Google and Wikipedia. Atlas and roadmaps has become passe … Continue reading
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Try to go a day without seeing Helvetica
I liked the idea that a font is as much about the space between the type as it is about the type itself. Since tracking, kerning and leading are all alterable I had not given much though to the original … Continue reading
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Sorry Grandma…
Can the digital revolution really be the scapegoat for the impending apocalypse? Is new media going to be the cannibal of books and cinema? Is the end of the world going to be due to technology? While reading, Toward an … Continue reading
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Cinema has a future
One of the lines that stood out to me the most from the article is that “old media never dies.” As the Internet became more prevalent in our lives, there was growing concern about the future of print and newspapers. … Continue reading
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One Foot in the Door, One Foot Out?
While reading this article about the emergence of new technologies and the transition from one invention to the next since the dawn of time, I am reminded of my childhood when the latest gaming system with the best graphics was … Continue reading
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Towards a Conflict
I thought it was very interesting that the authors make the point that old media never really dies out but is absorbed into new media. Music has gone from records to cassettes to CDs to now full digital formats. The … Continue reading