The Education of an E-Designer
Design Educators Make Timely Response to the Digital Revolution/ Need for Educational Guidance Rises As Schools Embrace New Professional and Technological DevelopmentsIn THE EDUCATION OF AN E-DESIGNER, fifty outstanding practitioners and policy makers in e-design present an educational framework for a discipline that has every design school across the country bustling with innovation. For design educators striving to integrate the new field and its professional perspectives into current graphic design programs, this valuable tool comes just at the right time.THE EDUCATION OF AN E-DESIGNER is the first roadmap to teaching e-design, design’s answer to the digital revolution that opens into such diverse and exotic career paths as game design, interactive media applications, motion graphics for film and TV, designing information kiosk displays, and shaping the user experience of e-commerce shoppers. In THE EDUCATION OF AN E-DESIGNER, educators will find everything they need to turn today’s design students into versatile players in tomorrow’s e-design arena. Whether educators are confronted with the task of digitalizing their classrooms, re-defining the role of the educator (a mere “software trainer”?), teaching the ABC’s of e-commerce, or communicating the skills for such highly specific areas as motion design and information architecture, this unique collection of essays holds the answers.THE EDUCATION OF AN E-DESIGNER combines a highly resourceful mix of hands-on advice, philosophical thought, and personal experience with a comprehensive choice of carefully designed course syllabi. An indispensable read for educators and students of graphic design,THE EDUCATION OF AN E-DESIGNER will also prove useful to everybody on the design side of web publishing, computer arts, film design, digital motion technology, and many other areas of digital design.The contributors of this pioneering work come from such diverse backgrounds as classical graphic design, telecommunications, cartoon design, and industrial machine design, and include Sean Adams, Eric Adigard, Bob Aufuldish, J.D. Biersdorfer, Andrew Blauvelt, Red Burns, Anne Bush, Denise Caruso, Cyle Cooper, Hillman Curtis, Meredith Davis, Hugh Dubberly, Geoffry Fried, Diane Gromala, Steven Hoskins, Marie Macmarek, Joanathan Lipkin, Carolyn McCarron, Katherine McCoy, Catherine Nelson, Nancy Nowacek, Melissa Niederhelman, Raymond Pirouz, Louise Sandhaus, Rachel Schreiber, Katie Salen, Loretta Staples, Dugald Stermer, Gunnar Swanson, Charles H. Traub, Tucker Viemeister, David Vogler, Lisa Waltuch, Bruce Wands, Linda Weinman, David Young, Natalie Zee, and Marina Zurkow.