The Times of Design

A Comment on the Essay “Why it Took so Long” by Gillian Crampton Smith

Abstract

The world in which we live and work is so pervaded by digital technologies that we practically take them for granted, to the point of considering them as something that has always existed. And so we overshadow the importance of understanding how these technologies have developed over the last decades of the last century, with an impact even before the lives of ordinary people, on the organization of work in some areas probably before in other. Surely the development of the first personal computers, of the related applications and of DTP (Desktop Publishing), or rather of the tools, procedures and techniques for the creation, layout and production of editorial products has definitively changed a production chain in which graphic designers had a decisive role ...