Talk about digital design

Digital design can be divided into "digital" and "design" two parts. We are divided into two to see what their "things" are. Digitizing? I think you should have seen that all kinds of information are represented by numbers. For example: "5460" is "I miss you". Bye-bye, it translates to "886". Not right? This is obviously some "joking"! In fact, the digitization is more accurate and it should be binary digitization, referring to the step that the establishment of computer technology in the establishment of binary theory. Digital technology originated in binary mathematics, driven by semiconductor technology and digital circuit science, which enables many complex calculations to be performed by an ergonomic machine or circuit. The development of today's microelectronics technology has brought us to the forefront of digitalization. Wait a minute and say that these things sound a little too far away. What does it have to do with our headline and what does it have to do with design? It's time to look at the concept of design.

Design is imagination, operations, planning, and budget. It is a creative activity that humans perform for a specific purpose. (Quoted from: "Introduction to Design") Design has multiple features, while the broad design covers a wide range of areas. The design has obvious artistic features, but also has the characteristics of science and technology and economic attributes. From these perspectives, the design includes almost all the creative work humans can do. But today we don't want to talk about our design at such a height. We only take one part of it. Another definition of design refers to the control and reasonable arrangement of visual elements, lines, shapes, colors, hue, texture, light, space, etc., covering artistic expression, and structural modeling. This seems to be closer to the design that we usually accept and can feel "Of course, the two definitions are from different scopes and perspectives, and there is no contradiction between them." We know that design is a special art, and its creation process follows the principle of practicality and beauty. The technical characteristics of the design show that the design is always influenced by the development of production technology. The first product to sell for more than a million products was called the "Tonette Chair." This round-shaped product was produced in the middle of the 19th century as a famous small hotel chair, and its production was due to the Kauri of Motivia. The Zico factory invented a new process technology for bentwood and carved wood. It can be seen that design is indeed inextricably linked with technology. Now that everyone understands the reason why I take such a big lap, digital design is a close combination of digital technology and design.

Then let us start with the “Information Age.” With the advent of the information age, the word “information” has become more and more hot, and once it is heard, it can be immediately and “advanced”. "The sense of the times is linked together. Is this "information" that has become so popular today that it has been lost in the long history? It doesn't seem like this. From a certain point of view, information is as permeating as air and moisture in every gap in our lives. Mobility is a very important feature of information. The flow of information has become particularly important. The invention of a computer, a young After coming out, the information waiting time came, and when it reached the last chapter of the 20th century in the history corridor, it broke out naturally! The invention of computers and the establishment of digital technologies have provided great conditions for the high-speed storage, flow, and processing of information. This is an excellent condition that has never existed in any era in history. In such a wide arena, of course, it will become more and more amazing!

The fuse that ignited the information explosion was "digital technology". It was the possibility that it caused all this "explosion" and prompted it to happen. Today, we just want to use this "fuse" to use it, and talk about another "explosion" that it ignites - digital design. Digital technology has brought about explosions of information and has also brought revolutionary changes to many other fields. Digital communications, digital media, specific digital televisions, digital cameras, digital refrigerators, digital microwave ovens, and simply digital survival! With so much digitization changing our lives, every time I think I can put on a lot, I can't digress too far away, so I'm going to talk about digital design (finally coming back to the topic!).

- Computer technology started as small as many technologies, and almost no one thought of what it is today. There are actually many such fallacies: for example, a camera for photography is not the same as many inventions. It is a modified product. It is known to the scientists from the 17th century as a dark box development for carrying a plotter. of. After the efforts of several French amateur scientists, when the spring of 1816 came, a camera using silver chloride paper film was finally produced. This clunky wooden box (which was said to have been called by the inventor's wife as a "mousetrap") is now simple to see. It is indeed hard to think of the precision we use today for all types of design work. It was the equipment and the colorful pictures that came with it. I think people who invented it at the time wouldn’t think of what it would bring to these latecomers, but it is undeniable that it is indeed modern photography. Pioneer and foundation, this "wooden box" created a new era.

In the last decades of the twentieth century, another such “wood box” was placed before us. It is the emergence and perfection of digital technology, digital theory and computer technology. It makes another wonderful change in the design field. Computer-aided design and computer-aided drawing. Space designers re-depicted the world in a virtual space. Create 3D. With a click of the mouse or a few keyboard strokes, we get a wide range of brushes, almost any color we can imagine, simple operations to achieve the work of the past few months, of course, there is a rapid copy And send. The inspiration and creativity that exist in people's minds can be presented more quickly and more realistically. In the past, when we were to modify the design of the design, it may mean to start again. And now with the high-speed central processing unit (CPU), huge memory can help our tangible design freeze down permanently. With the creation of the network, digital technology transforms our tangible design into a light stream that transmits light without weight. Information is transmitted at high speeds across various communication protocols, allowing your designs to be quickly transmitted throughout the world. It was learned from the report a few days ago that the emergence of three-dimensional digital scanning technology has made rapid modeling possible. Once again, digitalization has greatly promoted the design field. All this is rooted in the “digital-to-analog conversion” (conversion circuit technology between digital and analog) in digital circuits, but if you see the original conversion circuit transforming some sinusoidal waveforms into a sawtooth wave era It is not how it is linked to digital design. All this shows that as technology continues to deepen, it feels like the technology seems to be getting far away from us. Here, we need to mention some personal points of view. If we consider that the education methods and the corresponding knowledge structures of the relevant parties in China are relatively behind the international level, we understand the design in a relatively long period of time. Inaccurate and in-depth, many concepts still remain in the "arts and crafts" stage. Unconsciously, we ignore the important technical elements of the design (of course, at the same time industrial design will also ignore the composition of art). Thus, to a certain extent, a sense of distance from the design relative technology is produced. In fact, from the perspective of the world, there are many outstanding modern designers who also come from the technical talents. I remember seeing a feature film introducing international digital animation design once: "In the future, perhaps a computer expert is an animation master, and an artist may also be a successful computer engineer."

As technology continues to grow, the importance of technology is increasingly recognized and valued. Can someone ask whether design will eventually be replaced by technology? Is design technology a downright technical product when technology is strong enough? It is possible that one day we will invent a supercomputer with a few gigabytes of memory that handles n gigabytes of memory and let it do its own design.

This is absolutely impossible. Do not expect this day to come. As far as the design itself is concerned, it still has its own strong independence. The broad meaning of the design mentioned in the design includes the creative thinking in the artist's mind. Therefore, some people have defined the design as "a brewing in the mind, depicting the result in the imagination, and being able to make it a reality through practice." Here we can clearly see that the technology is in the process There are only a few parts that can be involved, and the core still rigorously indifferent to the wisdom of human beings depends on the human pursuit of harmony. Even digital design is ultimately a design. Technology will not replace it. Just like the gestation of wonderful poems will always be said, the birth of beautiful words and sentences is due to the production of words or the invention of a typewriter. Technology is a means in which it is an increasingly advanced tool. It has brought us new possibilities, prompting us to have more opportunities to inspire and achieve them more easily, but ultimately we must grasp these wonderful ideas and rely on people’s own efforts. Think this is where the design really matters. It is also the technology itself that cannot help you.

From a historical point of view, it was said that "when the primitive man struck another stone with a stone to create a tool, the design naturally occurred at this moment." Since the birth of civilization, mankind has been pursuing it. It. For the first time in Mesopotamian Asia from 3000 BC, they used embossed seals to make marks on pottery. In the long history of the past, those designers known as “craftsmen” or “craftsmen” endured the society. From the low status to the establishment of design science at the end of the 19th century, the design was truly scientific. Until today's design theories were perfected, a variety of outstanding designs were recognized worldwide and respected by people (and of course some In some places, things are not satisfactory.) No matter what the era, those creations have not stopped the tireless pursuit. Different eras have produced large-scale designers, which also shows that as a distinctive feature of designers, no matter what kind of environment, under what conditions, designers must always be creators and make unremitting efforts. To find the most harmonious form of existence, chase the footsteps toward perfection. Nothing can stop them. These are enough facts to prove that the design itself will never be replaced by technology.

When it comes to this, there is a real problem that has emerged. The rapid improvement of technology and the continuous development of new tools have made designers today have conditions that designers have never had in decades or even years before. They have used sophisticated brushes, endless colors, varied canvases, many unprecedented creative techniques, and various auxiliary tools to make selection complicated and numerous. These undoubtedly inspired designers' enthusiasm and gave them new inspiration and excitement. But at the same time it also caused them some external disturbances and it was easy to confuse them. I think Photoshop is not unfamiliar to us. It is one of the commonly used graphic and graphic design software, and it can be said to be a very famous one, but remember that when you first saw the numerous filters and effects, An overwhelmed feeling suddenly surrounded me (perhaps due to the limited level of my own, it would not be so good, as soon as I see foreign advanced software, I feel dizzy, but this is indeed my true feeling). Faced with a variety of tools and a large number of features, the selectivity becomes very much. How can we “brighten our eyes” and quickly find what we need to achieve our desired goal in the shortest possible time, and complete our design in the shortest possible time? This should have become a digital designer should have a basic skills. I personally believe that the complex digital design includes a complex hierarchy of logic. Means the same kind