Now and Then

In the recent past, technology has become increasingly available to the masses.  Blogging has become an expanding trend.  Anyone anywhere in the world can share anything they want at any time.  The increasing availability of technologies has allowed anyone who wants to be an author become one.

Publishing in the past has been a long and involved process.  Today, this very blog post will have gone from the writing process to "published" in a matter of minutes.  In years gone by writings were pitched to publishing houses, proofread extensively, run by editors, and finally sent to print.  At this point, individuals control their own publishing without much outside help. 

Designers and artists were hired to create not only covers for books, but also interiors.  This obviously still occurs in the book industry.  E-books have also altered this role of designers.  Rather than designing a physical book, designers must consider how a design will translate into a digital version.  This book designer discusses the process. 

Easy to use blogging software has allowed individual novices to design their own blog pages.  Technology has created the ability for people to become their own publisher in essence.  In some ways, the development of technology has allowed for more opportunities.  The introduction of the app market and other new technologies have created more things that need designing.  Apps are published and designed similar to the way books were.  It just involves more technology than in the past.  In the future, I suspect print will decline, but other new entries to the market will continue to present the need for artistic design.