PSU Magazine Spring 2002

"-----· __,.,. ... ___ --·– IIIO#OOCIUIIIYK:1-• __ .., .. _.,_...., _ .,. _ _._..., :::::-.:.:: :::. : _.,... __ _._ .. _ _., ___ .. .,_,. .. __ __ ____ .,.._ -- HONG ri.mwocm m1.v1et ----– Haxl1-i,A-7ltl ------f•---- TRAVEL BROCHURE BY YAO-CHOU HSIEH ------- ------ --- ---- _ .. ________ allow anyone to try their hand at creating a Web page, a newsletter, a poster, or a magazine cover. But like any art, digital still requires understanding the tra– ditional processes of line, color, and subject matter while commu– nicating effectively to the audience. The real strength of the digital medium, according to New Mexico writer, editor, and longtime digital artist J.D. Jarvis, "lies in synthesis-in bringing together existing forms in such innovative ways as to yield completely new ones." Students are able to use all the "soft– ware tools and all the traditional processes together to make something that has not yet been imag– ined," says Jarvis. "This is the power and the challenge of working digitally." -Kathryn Kirkland SPRING 2002 PSU MAGAZINE 11