Blauvelt Reaction

First a couple quotes from the reading I like/enjoyed.

"Design, because of its functional intentions, has always had a relational dimension. In other words, all forms of design produce effects, some small, some large. But what is different about this phase of design is the primary role that has been given to areas that once seemed beyond the purview of design’s form and content equation."
"Once shunned or reluctantly tolerated, constraints — financial, aesthetic, social, or otherwise — are frequently embraced not as limits to personal expression or professional freedom, but rather as opportunities to guide the development of designs; arbitrary variables in the equation that can alter the course of a design’s development. Seen as a good thing, such restrictions inject outside influence into an otherwise idealized process and, for some, a certain element of unpredictability and even randomness alters the course of events."

I feel quite a bit the same about this reading as I do about our first. It was hard to follow and hard to pull things out of it. The two quotes above are what stood out to me the most. Quotes I can realte to and believe in. His links to history in modern design and todays design were very clear. But what I feel he is talking about the most is how design is progressing into the future, what direction it is taking from where it had started. It is hard to tell where the design field is headed though because ways and practices are always changing, there are different ways to learn and progress.

This link contains several ideas of learning and progressing through graphic design:
http://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com/design/2006/06/the_future_of_g_1.html

What is interactive desing?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_design