Contemporary Design Issues Introduction

Subj : Contemporary Design Issues
Task : Introduction ( week 1)


Last week we have an presentation about what is contemporary design issues is about.  According to dictionary contemporary means things are modern and relate to the present time.

In contemporary design issue there is a rhetoric and in rhetoric there is two thing we need to understand and know  first is the author and the second is the audience. Each of this rhetoric have their own purposes such as the author they have two purpose informative and persuasive. Same with the audience there are two purpose one is passive and the other one is active. Active audience who is examine, quantify, assess, make informed decisions, interpret, evaluate, judge, resist change, criticise,
ridicule, and disprove but the passive audience who is just receive notice, feel reassured, feel a sense of unity, be entertained, receive instruction, enjoy, hear advice, be inspired, review, understand and learnt.

Other than that in the subject contemporary design issues there is a argument. This is argument is about the stand point or view of the author. in the context of academic argument usually we see it as a written text but in art this could be in form of both written and practice based work. When do the argument research we need to do the primary and the secondary research to make the evidence. In the research we should ask a few question like who is the author? how recent is the sources ? what type of sources does your audience value? . All this type of question will make your argument sources be credible.