hi, On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 13:25 +0000, james horgan wrote: > actually i wanted to add something to what i was writing as this > reminds me of the same problem i used to have as an industrial > designer. Whether to call myself an industrial or a product designer.
I solved my design education in Germany, where all traditional graphic design courses were renamed to Kommunikationsdesign or Visuelle Kommunikation (I think you can guess what these terms mean :) most people that graduated with me call themselves communication designers, because the abstract, high-level communication between viewer and artifact is what's interesting about it, not making some nice graphics, and because this opens the field to cover things like film, web, signage, interface (haha) etc. besides it was the name of the course. despite of this development, graphic design is still far more known and easier to understand. the discussion on interface vs interaction design actually reminds me of graphic vs. communication design. regarding terms like social interaction design, I think inventing names for special areas of expertise is a natural way for an emerging discipline. my counterpart example from communication design would be editorial design. milan -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | |||| || |||||||| | || | || +33 6 67 11 13 83 * www.guenther.cx ________________________________________________________________ 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
