Sunday, February 3, 2008

A look at Print

The Print media that I consume are very little, there are only 5 magazines that I read.

• PSM ( Playstation Magazine)
• Maxim
• Men’s Health
• Applied Arts
• Print

How will the current state of the design world change the form of print media?

I think that since the design world is going beyond anything anyone has suspected, we are going to see a lot more information shown through technology that printed media. Since new technology has allowed consumers to look up information on the go, on a portable device, its safe to say that a lot of people will not want material things. They wouldn’t want to have 3 trees of paper in their house just sitting there and unorganized. Its a lot easier to organized and store data on a electronical device. Printing industries will still distribute newspapers, magazines, flyers, brochures, articles, etc because people still want to purchase material objects and some of the population are technology illiterate. That’s how those businesses make their money. So in essence, industries will be pushing more towards electronical data to save trees and make consumers more happy about useful, organized data.

Will Print Die?

I personally thing that print wont die. The reason for this is because as previously stated before printing industries still make a lot of money because of consumers purchasing their products and have been for a long time. Even though some industries are wanting to save more trees and waste less paper, they are risking themselves if a crash were to happen. If that were to happen they would lose all their data and take a while to restore everything, where as newspapers and magazines have articles and biographies and other news up to date every week without risking loosing any of it. It’s printed material that won’t be lossed because of a power failure, and if it were to go missing you could always go out and get another one with ease. It will also evolve to the extent that it will be used back everything up so when a computer problem occurs they will be able to locate the information without any further problems. So in the end I think that print will live on past the digital era and be with us for a vary long time!

2 comments:

john said...
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john said...

Digital revaluation in print media is worked well. Online readership is increased dramatically from the past three years. All the publishers are presenting their publications through online to attract the advertisers, increase the readers and generate the revenues. There are some companies like Pressmart Media providing the e-publishing solution for all print editions and distributing them through various new technology mediums.