Continued Thoughts
February 16, 2004
Doing more web research on scrapbooking. I thought I'd first make direct comparisons from "making" in the scrapbooking world and "making" in the academic design world.
A few things I just noticed by surfing some scrapbooker message boards:
Everyone is WAYYYYYY nice.
I have yet to find responses that are more critically constructive in nature. They tend to be all positive.
There is a level of comfort with technology that is obvious in the method of community posting and image loading etc.
This is truly worth a thousand words.
There is a level of sharing (in terms of layouts etc) that is not present in many designer oriented message boards.
Users are using the system to generate feedback (approval?).
These are physical objects, photographed and put on the web to make digital scrapbooks.
From an article in May/2003
Scrap bookers will soon have special photo paper to take advantage of computer technology. Epson's new paper is the first to come in 12-by-12; the most popular scrapbook size. And most importantly, it's Lignin and acid-free...which makes it archival quality. Epson's matte scrapbook and semi gloss photo paper will sell for about 20-bucks for 20 sheets and will include software full of ideas and projects. Full Reference
Posted by Amanda McCoy Bast at February 16, 2004 6:34 PM