DDC Media website Editor-in-Chief Wang Dong interview

Editor: DDC Media, formerly known as the digital Design Interconnection website (ddc-digital designed Connection), was formally established on July 10, 2002, It is the interactive website with the main direction of the professional exchange of digital art, which is famous for the education and promotion of digital art.

Today, DDC website has covered digital Art news information, graphic design communication, CG creative Interaction, CPI business illustrator and ACCD graphic designer's certification and management, the national standard training materials, the design of comprehensive magazine "C_design" of the establishment and distribution, Each site digital art channels to build and other fields. DDC website also from "Digital Design Interconnection" renamed "DDC Media", and will be a new perspective to vigorously promote digital arts, design and CG to promote the exchange, and then support the development of China's digital arts industry.

Today we invite DDC website Editor-in-Chief Wang Dong and everyone chat about DDC.

DDC Editor-in-Chief Wang Dong

Visual Alliance: Wang Dong Hello, can simply to our general readers about the DDC website since the establishment of some basic situation?

Wang Dong: DDC website is July 10, 2002 officially established, the name is "Digital Design interconnection", DDC is digital designs connection abbreviation, the goal is to build a digital art exchange platform for like-minded people. At that time, the website is based on the ACCD Education Project, with the software technology to cooperate with the art Exchange model to establish.

The most worthy of our value is DDC unique mild atmosphere of communication, we all have a common hobby, help each other, support each other, the site as their own home. This trait has been preserved until now.

In this three years, DDC increased the CPI business Illustrator Education certification program, and the Central Academy of Fine Arts Cooperation ACAA Digital Art vocational Education program, and Sohu to build Sohu digital art channel, and blog to build visual arts channel, and various institutions, associations and media to cooperate. This year we have stepped into the traditional media field--the official publication C_design magazine, which has been published nationwide.

DDC has been adhering to the "network resources should be shared, the site is not a competition, but cooperation, we should support each other, to complement each other." "This concept, 2005 May, DDC officially renamed" DDC Media. DDC is no longer a only propaganda themselves, promote their own independent website, but the digital art of professional media, through the sharing of their own resources, to support and publicize all the professional website, and thus promote the development of the digital arts industry in China.

Visual Alliance: DDC and other design sites The biggest difference is that there is a professional training team, training network and related training operation mechanism, you can give a detailed description of this situation?

Wang Dong: Because has been committed to digital arts education and training, so a number of powerful education and training experts and software technology experts gathered in the DDC media. They participated in the training program planning and standard textbook preparation.

DDC Media Headquarters

Visual Alliance: What are the components of the DDC site's management team? How does it work?

Wang Dong: DDC website management team mainly includes " Forum Management", "Website News Management" and "external cooperation" three important components, in addition, there are "education Project Department", "textbook compiling department", "magazine department" and other departments with the site cross management.

Visual Alliance: "C_design" magazine in the industry evaluation is very high, you can introduce about the "C_design" magazine?

Wang Dong: "C_design" magazine is published by the industrial design magazine, facing the national issue of bimonthly magazine. It is a book designed for industrial design, creative design and digital art enthusiasts. The magazine brings together the He Jun, Guang Yu, and other domestic designers to participate in the design and production. DDC Media and the Central Academy of Fine Arts undertook all the editorial work of the magazine.

At present, the new issue of "C_design" magazine has been published, I believe that this issue will bring greater surprise to everyone.

Visual Alliance: What is the biggest difficulty for DDC website at the beginning of its establishment?

Wang Dong: The site from the inception of the beginning to now, thanks to everyone's support and help, the development is relatively smooth.

As for the possible future situation, I think there should be two aspects: first, to maximize the coordination of the various alliance websites for further communication and cooperation, and the second is to provide more resources for the alliance sites to support.

Visual Alliance: What is the development plan of DDC website in the future?

Wang Dong: DDC has steadfastly adhered to the tenet of "mutual aid, solidarity and resource sharing". In the past is the support of the members of the station, the future is the DDC media and the various alliances between the Web site mutual assistance. For the future development, DDC will not change this "mutual aid, unity, resource sharing," the original intention.

Visual Alliance: What do you think about the commercialization of a website?

Wang Dong: The Internet is a pluralistic space after all, the causes of each site, the nature of the complex. Many sites have successfully moved to the path of commercial development, which is a welcome thing.

But are all the sites suitable for commercialization? I don't think the "Only way" is for all websites to develop. The value of the site and whether the site is profitable is not the same concept, the value of the site and the site is not a commercial development of the same category, so I am in the Web site to the development of the direction of support, but also suggest that each site to their own situation objective analysis, find suitable for their own development model.

Visual Alliance: There is a message that there are venture capital enterprises on some domestic design-related sites have investment intentions, how do you think of this problem?

Wang Dong: In fact, venture capital companies have targeted the various corners of China's internet industry and not just design-related websites.

China has begun to focus on developing a good environment to promote the entire Internet industry towards a healthy direction. Under this premise, the domestic website is valued by the investment enterprise is normal. Moreover, venture capital enterprises will invest more and more in domestic websites, which will promote the booming of the domestic interconnection network industry.

Because at present the enterprise to design the website to carry on the venture capital investment the successful case is not many, therefore in the actual operation, may appear some problems, but regardless of result, this is the website carries on the commercial operation an important attempt.

Visual Alliance: How to look at the future development of the domestic design website? What web site development model is worth learning?

Wang Dong: As an element of the Internet, the website has many characteristics, such as pluralism, complexity and independence, which makes the design site unique. Asian CI Network, blue Ideal, Mars era, Flash guest Empire, such as the success of the site is worth learning, as well as the Passion of the Visual Alliance, 5D Multimedia website Enthusiasm, the implication of Oriental vision, as well as fresh creative, graffiti kingdom, CG98 ... Everyone is committed to the design, illustrations and other digital arts exchanges. These are all worthy of our study.

With the popularity of blogs, some websites are also starting to use blog plug-ins, which is a more optimistic way.

Visual Alliance: You use a sentence to summarize the development process of DDC and the expectations of the future bar

Wang Dong: DDC is "mutual assistance, unity, resource sharing" started, so also hope to establish a professional website "Mutual Assistance, solidarity, resource sharing," the ideal country, DDC is willing to become this link.

Visual Alliance: How about a user who has been supporting DDC for years?

Wang Dong: The development of DDC can not be separated from the efforts of everyone, "DDC is everyone's", I firmly believe that the words. Thank all the good friends for their support.

Visual Alliance: Thank you for your acceptance of the Visual Alliance website interview, and finally wish DDC smooth development!

Wang Dong: Thank the Visual Alliance for DDC Support, I hope DDC Media, Visual Alliance and all the professional website can help encourage, common development, the backbone of the digital arts industry in China.

DCC Editor-in-Chief Wang Dong and Visual Alliance website deputy Editor Shangpeng photo

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