Mixing Messages | Essay | Publishing


`INTRO THE STREET TYPOGRAPHY The Familiar The Modern IDENTITY Corporate Culture Subcultures Design Cultures PUBLISHING The Book The Magazine Electronic Publishing` `INTERVIEWS`

Multimedia publishing entails the production of documents that combine text, images, video, and animation in a format that is electronically experienced and randomly accessed.

The democratic potential of new media is being tested across the circuits of the World Wide Web.

Visionary explorations of on-screen typography are being conducted at the Visual Language Workshop (VLW) of MIT's Media Lab.

The death of the book, whose murder by television has been predicted since the 1950s, no longer seems imminent. Its supremacy as our culture's most prestigious container for knowledge, however, is already being challenged. As never before, graphic designers have the opportunity to give meaning to new forms of media that are arising from the collision and convergence of old genres and changing technologies.