First off, please excuse this post's soon to be rambling nature. This is my first post and the ideas are flowing in a quite non-linear fashion.
I currently have the postion title of "Interactive Media Designer" at my company althought I find myself creating random print flyers and pieces when we do not have the budget or time to use our outside creative firm. I study Digital Media Arts and Tech. and never intended to create web or screen based content. Rather I intended to produce audio and video content. While taking courses in Flash/HTML/CSS and some script/programming classes I stumbled into internship and job opportunities that lead to where I am today. All of that said I find 2 major difference arise when trying to create for screen and print. 1. The ability to merge media of all types: Digital Media (web or otherwise) not only has the ability to incorporate audio/video/graphic media, but flourishes when this is done correctly. I know audio and video are still often shunned on websited, but argue that this is due to poor implementation. By adding motion or audio Digital Media designers have the ability to engage the user differently through sound and directional content. Watching how users become engaged and attached to sound is very intriguing to me. 2. Information structure: With print, even when working with our creative firm I find the graphic designers and print specialists tend to lay things out in a linear format (3 follows 2 follows 1). When I collaborate with interactive designers the information structure resembles webs....hmmm go figure. The challenges are different. Graphic: How to put the information in the right order/ Digital: How to logically connect the nodes. Hope this lends some light. Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=23455 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
