Friday, May 9, 2008

Designing online vs print

"Online Media"


"Print Media"


Creative and innovative human being always strives to achieve a goal or vision with “feelings” and “emotions”. Hence, while you are using various medium avenue to design it will certainly differ as the effect, process, materials and style used are all different. Print document is the conventional way of designing in which we can feel with our touch senses and get hold on the stuff we want. In contrast, online design is a revolutionary style of designing utilizing different technology to produce the masterpiece whereby we can only observe it without able to touch it.

Both designs have its own distinctiveness and restrictions. For print documents, it will be rather rigid as wordings appear to be displayed in linear line as readers need to read it from either from right to left, up to bottom which is pre-set by the restricted reading path (Kress & Leuwen, 1998). This is portrayed in the picture above.

On the other hand, online designing is more vibrant with lots of hyperlinks, images, pictures, interactive tools without having to follow the boring reading path of the conventional way (Kress & Leuwen, 1998). A very good example would be portrayed in the pictures above.

In a nutshell, I suppose both ways of designs have their own distinctiveness and limitation. However, both are equaled important as they need to be used complementary to caters to the different audience across the world. In short, I always think that if both design can work complementary, it will ultimately make use of the two style to their fullest which will produce the best of the best ever design catering to various audience.

Reference list:

Kress,G and Leeuwen, VT, 1998, “The Meaning of Composition” in reading composition, Oxford.

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