매거진 디자인의 변화와 디지털 환경에서의 전망

In digital era, Book design adopts new concepts and frames of digital contents and devices. Many books try to appeal their technical distinction and novelty, regardless of any existing traditional technicalities and strategies in book design. Although magazines have a rather short history compare to books, magazines have transformed over time in contents and forms, using wide range of contents such as news, short story, poem, illustrations in one form. However in the process of transformation, magazine's inherent hypertext functions and multimedia characters are neglected hence a functional and formal detachment is occurring when the traditional printed magazine is evolving into a digitalized media. Therefore, this study tries to bridge the gap between the printed magazines and digitalized magazines, and trace the steps of magazines, focusing on the process of reformation and improvement of magazines as a media. To achieve this, this study adopted remediation theory as a conceptual frame to analyse the evolution of magazine design rather than following the history of art director's chronicles or graphic design history. This study follows a timeline which are divided into four periods; the early 20th century with its constructivist movement which is the basis of modern magazine design; the 1930s when photographic resource dominate magazines; 1970s to 1980s, new broadcast media period; and digital publishing period. Although this study is exploratory and has some limitations, it reveals the fact that magazines have survived through several technological and social shift before digital publishing, and there are many cases to be studied to develop new strategies for digital magazines.