Cultures,the Traditional Shadow Play,and Interactive Media Design

In our design education, we try to differentiate between the nonlinear interactive structure of the new media and linear structure of traditional print media and cinematography .We help our students to develop visual, audible, and clickable designs within the limits of a computer screen. Because of the attractive possibilities offered by technology , many designers today are using digital media to do their design work. This article discusses what could be done to improve the skills of interactive media design. We explored the possibility of using our traditional culture as a starting point. The typology of the traditional shadow play was examined within the framework of current interactive media.