Melanie Helgerson
Techno-culture
After our discussion on techno culture and how much technology has changed our world and the way we view it, it got me thinking about my own world and how much it has changed within my major of graphic design. When I was in high school I took a few years worth of graphics classes. To compare those classes to the graphics classes in college it is like night and day. In high school we learned the old, outdated process of how graphic designs were made, in order to appreciate their roots, and also because art wasn’t an important part of the school’s budget, and the school couldn’t afford all new equipment. The process is so much quicker now; you design something on the computer using the various creative suite programs, and print it out on the printer. To make a change, you just go back into the document, change it and print out a new one. Back in the day though, before there were computer generated images, it was all drawn out by hand. Then from those drawings a negative was made in the dark room. Next a metal plate was made by burning the image onto it using a chemical that smelt like a dirty diaper I might add. Lastly, the metal plate was run through the printing press one ink color at a time and after each color the stack of papers had to be realigned and fed through the press again so that the colors were perfectly layered over one another. Needless to say it was a lot of work, and if you found out later in the process that you accidentally misspelled a word, you had to go all the way back to step one and start over. Now the process just seems to easy, but I am thankful that I got to experience the old school way of making a graphic design so that I now have a greater appreciation for the new innovated technology.
Techno-culture
After our discussion on techno culture and how much technology has changed our world and the way we view it, it got me thinking about my own world and how much it has changed within my major of graphic design. When I was in high school I took a few years worth of graphics classes. To compare those classes to the graphics classes in college it is like night and day. In high school we learned the old, outdated process of how graphic designs were made, in order to appreciate their roots, and also because art wasn’t an important part of the school’s budget, and the school couldn’t afford all new equipment. The process is so much quicker now; you design something on the computer using the various creative suite programs, and print it out on the printer. To make a change, you just go back into the document, change it and print out a new one. Back in the day though, before there were computer generated images, it was all drawn out by hand. Then from those drawings a negative was made in the dark room. Next a metal plate was made by burning the image onto it using a chemical that smelt like a dirty diaper I might add. Lastly, the metal plate was run through the printing press one ink color at a time and after each color the stack of papers had to be realigned and fed through the press again so that the colors were perfectly layered over one another. Needless to say it was a lot of work, and if you found out later in the process that you accidentally misspelled a word, you had to go all the way back to step one and start over. Now the process just seems to easy, but I am thankful that I got to experience the old school way of making a graphic design so that I now have a greater appreciation for the new innovated technology.
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