Internet: Limit Imagination?

"Internet limits for innovation and imagination because of the constraint on the screen." said Milton Glaser, but what he really worries is that technology is removing the most powerful instrument of art from the equation: pencil and paper. He said that the art pieces have more potentially expression and free flow when work with pencil and paper while internet is just one material and it is being so dominated in term of its powerful tool that can increase the amount of repetition of work. Therefore there're many work on internet we already see before.

As a student of interactive multimedia design, I can see how's the experience of seeing the same design and layout on the internet or even we also doing the same thing. Nevertheless it's doesn't mean that create repetition of work is considered has no imagination and creativity. Whenever we start a project, we have to sketch and plan it out first. For example before I start doing my website, I have to consider many layout possibilities for the users and I sketch it all out. When everything is confirmed like the design, the layout, the content, I start to digitalize them. We can be skilled enough by starting off from a PC or MAC screen but for corporate works, and purpose-built quality work, even if everything seems to be based on the idea that a great web-page capitalizes on a corporate image, the ideas are best kept first on paper, then translated to a digital context. To enhance the usability of a website, we should keep the consistency of the layout or wireframe, us web designers can always create something creative from the limitation of the layout as HTML can embed scripts written in languages such as JavaScript which affect the behavior of HTML Web pages. Default characteristics for every item of HTML markup are defined in the browser, and these characteristics can be altered or enhanced by the web page designer's additional use of CSS. Therefore, there's still web designers can create exordinary work instead of restricted by the limitation of the layout.

No matter is in traditional way or digitally way to create a work neither non-formal tranning nor formal tranning , we always start from a very basic fundamental- drawing fundamental. This is the reason we spend a foundation year to learn drawing and colour studies before we enter degree level. We learn the right judgement for our design, and we always make a balance throughout the process.  

Source:

YouTube, (2015). Is the Internet Ruining Design?. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2SccqDvVCg [Accessed 16 Jan. 2015].