I will post the formal assignment with details Tuesday, but you may want to talk informally with your team about a topic before then. Each team’s presentation will deal with a particular technology (high or low) and the impact it has had on design as we currently know it. Some examples might be: the laser printer, the Cartesian grid, Photoshop, the automobile, the halftone screen, paper, digital typography, etc.
Any tool or technology which has altered the production, consumption or contemplation of designed messages and objects is fair game.
The format is completely open: slide presentation, web site, short film, pamphlet, computer game, performance, etc. Just make sure your presentation covers:
- The cultural and political context in which the tool/tech was developed
- The ways in which he use of the tool/tech has changed with time
- The influences the tool/tech has had on what we now consider design
- The distinctive “marks” the tool/tech leaves on work produced with it
- Make a case as to why the tool/tech should or should not continue to be used by designers
Details to follow…
