mid-year risd mfa thesis keynote (11.12)

designer is writer

Dylan Rosal Greifdgreif@risd.eduGraphic Design, RISD

Bone Book, 1994.Bone Book. 1994.

The Public Journal. 2004–6.

The Blue Table Project. 2006.

speed and ease of media tools

Bone Book, 1994.

speed and ease of tools

The Wilderness Downtown, Chris Milk

pervasiveness of multimedia

Bone Book, 1994.Augmented (Hyper) Reality, Keiichi Matsuda.

increase of interactive media

text form

viewing text

designing text

The organization of writing is governed by the logic of time. The organization of the image, by contrast, is governed by the logic of space.

Gunther Kress, LITERACY IN THE NEW MEDIA AGE

Types of Color. 2010

Medieval marginal scholarship

Lines, The Cafe Society

Our Hero and the Quest for the Pixie Llama, draft.

WordBoard, sketch of a word Processor.

writing form

Logins. 2011.

Writing The Read. 2011.

Reading has also become a scanning of visual stimuli. These stimuli can be letters or pictures, the difference between the two—once so fundamental—is fading. watching has become a more conceptual, more reflective activity.

Max Bruisma, I READ WHERE I AM

Stats of the Union, Fathom Design

Urbanology, Local Projects. 2011

Elements of Design. In process

pun

parallel construction

simile

onomatopoeia

rhyme

voice

The Wilderness Downtown, Chris Milk

Writerliness Downtown. In process

new reading experiences

In the future, most designers will be creating reading experiences, not book designs.

Andrew Blauvelt, I READ WHERE I AM

Alan Burack Interviews Alan Lightman about His Novel Einsteins Dreams. 2011.

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Dylan Rosal Greifdgreif@risd.eduGraphic Design, RISD