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On a youth-infused episode of Burning Down the House, Curtis B. Wayne is joined by designer and iconographer Aaron Ginsberg to discuss digital media in a digital world. The digital vs physical debate is revisited through a different lens as Aaron shares his own frustrations with the constraints of digital tools while sharing his excitement for some of the new technologies that are helping us move forward. This episode was sponsored by S. Wallace Edwards & Sons. For more information visit www.surryfarms.com
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Burning Down the House Introduction: Digital Media in the Digital World with Aaron Ginsberg (4:48)
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Burning Down The House, Curtis B Wayne, Heritage Radio Network, S. Wallace Edwards & Sons, digital content, Aaron Ginsberg, digital media in the digital world,Digital vs. Physical Content - New Methods of Design (17:23)
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digital vs physical content, Howard Stern, when everybody is able to get content at any time in any method - it's the content that matters, Aaron has been scolded by peers for making physical goods, out of box experience, digital media landscape, eBooks can't just be text displayed, content needs to be more interactive, less tactile - more visual and acoustic, becoming more of an illustrator, Wacom tablet, the canvas is your monitor, cintiq tablet, shape dynamics, you can use any pen tip you want, Aaron is using glows, using pre white and applying a Gaussian blur, repeat until it looks like it's actually glowing, graphic content is changing as tools advance, motion graphics, new methods of design, Art Bell, building graphics around algorithms,Emotional Gaps & 3D Printing (13:00)
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we are just discovering what digital tools can do, there are vast emotional gaps as a result, it's better to lean into frame than to try and change people's behavior, Facebook as a bulletin board, on Facebook, - you ARE the product, making surfboards, it's not about the plane it's more about the experience of that plane and how the user gets it, everybody is trying to do the same thing, digital sculpting, 3D printers, making things without moving parts, we are able to print simple machines on our desks, in two years everybody will have a 3D printer, 3D tattoos, Aaron has been making graphics for 7 years, silk screening on top of paintings, Andy Warhol reversed,Design "Personality" & The Future of eBooks (12:40)
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future of eBooks, plasma screens, concept phones, www.thedoverchester.com, www.gunwash.com, design personality, www.ducksworthny.com, Ducksworth, using art to say you're sorry, Aaron is a sensitive guy, possibilities for the future of eBooks, Kindle is boring, iPad, Flip Board, aggregation of social networking applications, browsing your iPod as if it were a magazine of yourself, being in your own head can mess up a work flow, that's why we have to come back to physical art, we live in a physical world, retina display and API's for social networking sites have made it possible to do anything, any book can do anything you want, at the end of the day an eBook is a website,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
