Graphic Design is dying
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- Bennn-1
"My company ########. We are wholesale distributors of fresh produce in midwest. Some of the products we trade are Banana, onion, oranges, potatoes, watermelons, and others. We are looking for a company to design a website for us.
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"A website for 100$ ?
Seriously?- they must think you'll work for peanutssarahfailin
- or bannasrattail
- Go off the shelf, free template, done.i_monk
- any designer who takes this job is supporting these shit business practices, even if they use a templatemonospaced
- I know, just saying it's fairly achievable compared to other examples posted here.i_monk
- Bennn0
I'm looking around on upwork.com to find some freelance work... This is probably the most popular website out there to find work in various catergories. There's a lot of jobs available BUT the budget of the companies/people posting job are ridiculous! Just an example, "i need an illustrator to create 10 icons for a website based on the drawings i've made - Budget: 15$" .... A logo, budget 5$ ... A products catalogue, budget 50$ .... Multiple photo retouching including upscaling not large enough pics (!) and changing background, budget: 20$
Fuck that!
- 20 banners design for 100$
yeeeah!Bennn - on upwork you have to build up some reputation to access the bigger projects.sted
- freelancer.com offers better options for quick money, but competition is huge.sted
- this is the open market. It makes sense if you're living in vietnam where $300/month gets you pretty far._niko
- 20 banners design for 100$
- hans_glib0
monoboy said "It's true, everyone can be a designer"
no they can't, not without training, and not even then is it guaranteed they'll have any aptitude.
design is about a lot more than just laying shit out in a nice way, (which is what i'm assuming canva does).
you need to be able to understand what the message is and how best to communicate that message.
- monoboy0
Professional work is being commoditised because people are expensive. We all want more, faster, cheaper.
It's the free-market way.
The only way to win is to make sure you don't have to work to earn. Using money to make money instead.
Otherwise, it's gonna be tough out there.
- Bennn0
"Online graphic design startup Canva is now worth $1 billion"
http://mashable.com/2018/01/09/c…
Canva is getting bigger and bigger. Pick from thousands of free
templates for every occasion... No need to hire and pay a graphic designer anymore! YAY! https://www.canva.com/print/- as read on their website: "Thanks to Canva, everyone can be a designer"Bennn
- Sites like this make it harder for the bottom 30% of our industry. If your clients actually think this is a good replacement for you, you were doing a shit job.noneck
- and they weren't worth having as clients in the first placehans_glib
- It's true, everyone can be a designer. But good ones a rare, great ones even more so.monoboy
- I got a call last year form a startup with a Wix website looking for help. They'd spent weeks tweaking the fuck out of it and it was a total mess.monoboy
- But it's free he said. Hmm, and how many billable hours have you spent on it I ask. Oh, er. erm. £5Ks worth as it happens.monoboy
- The problem here isn't the tech. It's the fact that everyone 'wants' to be a designer and they haven't the first clue about how long it takes to do a good job.monoboy
- Are we talking about graphic design or web devoloment here?monospaced
- ^ canva does it allGnash
- I’m sorry, but isn’t this just graphic designers making money?monospaced
- Meh. If you’re threatened by this, maybe you’re in the wrong line of work.monospaced
- Templates, templates everywhere....Wish every career became as automated and accessible.Maaku
- Zarrir0
Apart from graphic design, there are a lot works are dying. Like interpreter which might be soon replaced by AI tech.....
- Life moves on. Things change. Such is the nature of reality...set
- I dont think so, context is crucial. People who need interpreters or translators will still value them as always, this tech only means that common folk canMiguex
- have access to basic translation services, but it's no replacement for the real thing.Miguex
- That might be true right now but of course technology will replace that one day...set
- sarahfailin5
Garphic design lives!
- pango4
Everything is dying.
- utopian0
dead?
- set2
No it ain't. Next thread..
- Bennn0
We're that close to never need graphic designers anymore. Its like a microwaves for design.
- People still design the basics in the first place, and people will always want original design. If you're good, relax.set
- I'm kinda joking with all this. Still...Bennn
- Branded stories really?utopian
- Social media campaigns are the new facebook apps. All this will be obsolete in 3 or so years.Maaku
- aren't you just a hobbyist anyway with cracked Adobe CS6 and all illegal fonts?monospaced
- Zing...see_thru
- I don't want to be bothered with the kind of work this app replaces.jtb26
- this design looks like every other wp-template available now. pre-fab.umbee54
- Bennn-3
Uber is cheaper taxi
Airbnb is cheaper hotel
''name a service'' is cheaper graphic designWe're in that era.
- CGN1
Use your skills for something global and change the human consciousness. Sheep will follow sheep they don't know better. Do something that expands you to the next level..you recognize the need
- fadein110
Nothing new I know but think more about products rather than services, it has more longevity, profitability and less hard work.
- omahadesigns2
- http://www.qbn.com/t…Al_dizzle
- RAYGUNish http://2.bp.blogspot…prophetone
- quite like it - nothing new thoughfadein11
- David Carson would be proudvaxorcist
- Not as good as Yeezus artworknb
- vomitutopian