Assignment 17

3/2 – Evaluate the use of blogging as a communication tool for design.

I think blogs work much better as a tool for displaying sketches and process shots than for presenting your thoughts and ideas, merely because the formatting is so basic. I know that’s the whole point (the ease of posting/commenting and basic formatting), but being unable to present text data in any way other than in an endless stream of text can be very limiting. I find myself even on the artist’s blogs whose work I am very interested in still scrolling through any text and looking straight to imagery, unless the images posted are a process book or tutorial of some kind.

I think that designs and art are still best communicated online through websites, where there is room for personalization and better structured for presenting information.