With the development of the times, people invent more and more things to help them live better. When an invention is born, a new invention will be born on the basis of the old invention. For example, after the birth of language, words will be born according to the characteristics of language. This is that the “content” of the media is always another kind of media. Media is helpful to mankind, because after mankind invents new things, it will bring greater opportunities to mankind. For example, in the beginning, people may just invent the railway to transport goods to a distance, but after the invention of the railway, in addition to transporting goods, it can also bring a lot of labor and development opportunities to the cities passing by.

Although the media has helped mankind, it still “harms” mankind because the evolution of the media is non-stop. Almost every moment technology is advancing it will not only give birth to new jobs but also make some jobs disappear, so I think technology and media progress is a double-edged sword, while giving human opportunities it is also eliminating people who can’t adapt, so we have to keep learning and improving to “survive” in the new world.

Single media is meaningless. It needs content to convey information to people. For example, if there is only one electric lamp, it is difficult for people to be attracted and understand its meaning, but when many electric lamps are combined into a message, it can attract people’s attention and convey information to people. Artists and designers are the people who use “electric lights” to combine information. They use different media to create information. This information forms a new media, attracts people’s attention and makes the media meaningful.

I mentioned earlier that artists and designers use different media to create media. However, new media will bring unknown influence, so designers may not be able to predict the impact of their work. So the work of designers is subordinate to the media they use to create or distribute information. Although designers are subordinate to their own design, I think designers can accumulate experience to make their creation achieve some influence, so designers need to constantly create works and accumulate experience to make themselves work influential.