Dynamic Information Display

Abstract

The video screens and sophisticated computer technology offer new display media for typographic information transfer. However, the design attributes for composition employed by this new media take little advantage of this new technology; instead, they tend to emulate conventional design attributes established for print. In new media, the state of an information display changes because the three-dimensional structure of its information (the two dimensions of the display plane and the time dimension) is revealed in temporal segments on the display screen; its communication is dynamic. New design attributes for composition must be identified by considering this dynamic nature. These and a new design process in which programmed rules assist the designer to create visual patterns in a dynamic layout are explored in this paper.