The past is another country...
Mar. 3rd, 2009 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsA couple of weeks ago I purchased two new (used) books on graphic design from Half-Price Books, and one of them, Graphic Design Basics, published in 1999, had exactly one mention of the Web. In a paragraph in the introduction touting job opportunities for graphic designers, author Amy Arnston writes in a section on careers that "Web pages increasingly call for design skills with page layout, logo design, scripting, illustration, typography and animation."
And that's it. That's the sum total mention of graphic design for the web in her book. She actually spends more time discussing the potential need in the "near future" for graphic designers to be skilled in 3D environments for VRML (remember VRML?) than she does HTML.
Everything else is posters, books, and packaging. All of which are perfect topics for a book on graphic design, but somehow it seems like even ten years ago is another world, a world where graphic design was the province of the rarified advertiser, rather than anybody and everybody who needed a web page.
And that's it. That's the sum total mention of graphic design for the web in her book. She actually spends more time discussing the potential need in the "near future" for graphic designers to be skilled in 3D environments for VRML (remember VRML?) than she does HTML.
Everything else is posters, books, and packaging. All of which are perfect topics for a book on graphic design, but somehow it seems like even ten years ago is another world, a world where graphic design was the province of the rarified advertiser, rather than anybody and everybody who needed a web page.
