Graphic Design is dying
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- BaskerviIle0
Graphic design isn't dying, it's just evolving. Yes, technology has played a part...computers in general have changed the profession since the 80s. Back then graphic design was a pretty particular set of skills (to quote Liam Neeson), now I think there are more media to design within and you need to have a much more diverse set of skills to do that effectively.
More importantly you need to understand how all the different media we have now are integrated and inter-related so you can think of good ideas that work across the board. I'm a firm believer that designers are primarily employed to have good ideas first, and to carry those ideas our second.
I have a print/typography background, then got into branding and have gradually evolved into a designer who specialises in experience design and innovation in general. Along the way I've picked up skills in web/UI/motion/environmental design amongst other things.
One thing I've observed is that standing still is a surefire way to make yourself obsolete. Move with the times, keep learning, keep being curious, keep having great ideas that work for the times we live in.
If you think of yourself as a pair of hands for hire, you will be replaceable. A good creative brain is less replaceable.
- wow, our design history is very similar, from print/type to experience/environme... heremonospaced
- Where do you work now mono? I've been on here on and off since 2003!BaskerviIle
- in-house at a large corporate joint in NYCmonospaced
- bainbridge2
There will always be bad designers and bad architects and bad engineers. There are too many companies and too many products and too many stores.
Not every company has access or funds to hire the best and many times the CEOs have no idea what good design is or they have bad suggestions that ruin designs.
Rather than complaining, do the best you can do and seek out those who appreciate your effort. Good design can be taught in schools and supported by the government (like the Netherlands for example), but there are bigger problems to deal with too.
- MrT0
Nah.
I reckon low-price design jumbles sales are there to serve serial 'entrepreneurs' - another career everyone seems to have these days.
Let them feel legit with their crappy bit of cheap wallpaper. They can then stop asking proper designers to develop a complete brand for them in exchange for a LinkedIn recommendation and a bit of their worthless stock.
- VectorMasked1
I do think Graphic Design is dying in a way. Design is all over. Everything has to be designed or over-designed because it sells. The problem is with a regular folks. Designers like myself who love print and have focused on print work mostly are the ones who will mostly saying design is dying... and it is true. But design rather that dying is just going through a phase where things are changing. Some people might not need a bunch of flyers or print brochures now... but they might need instead a mobile app and more of an online presence. It's basically a matter of learning new tools and trying to slowly focus on new areas of design. And yes... all those online tools for crap logo making, or template sites and the rise of crappy free fonts affect people in the industry.
I myself like I mentioned have always had a thing for print and font making... but I have slowly been moving more towards online and digital stuff. Not because I love doing this nor because of interest in the digital stuff... simply coz I have both been switching direction kinda unconsciously or naturally. When I left college 10 years ago I was making a lot brochures, catalgues, cool stationery... loved going to the printers to see proofs, check on colour accuracy, smalling paper, sitting down and going over paper samples figuring out what stock and weight might work best, etc... But at the same time I was slowly getting more web stuff. Every year site design jobs we going up and these last 3-4 years I started to work a little more on apps, mobile sites, intranets, and things like. It's all kinda boring, but design is there... it's just a little different.
I also feel that if in the past 5 out of 10 people needed to hire a designer... and the other 5 had absolutely no need of one... those cheap online tools or templates are attracting a lot of the crowd that never ever hired a designer or see no value in it. So now... out of those 10 people, 5 still need a designer of some sort, and the other 5 rather than being uninterested like before, they just go for cheap template shit or call you to see if you'll do them a job worth $5000 for $250 and a tablerone.
- robotron3k0
Design isn't dying, it's just charging $5 per hour
- pablo280
"Love this website builder. ❤️I was managed to create a simple landing page within 20-25 minutes. Normally that process took me 2-3 days with my designer."
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- lol, there's Webflow that makes it really easy to make anything web and ppl still pay web designers to make for them anything web. Web design is actually hard.grafician
- Had tons of discussions "I need a quick website/why don't you use Squarespace/Oh, but that's too hard" so yeah...grafician
- ...no matter how many tools exist and how easy they are to use, people are lazy and will always pay someone to do the jobgrafician
- Bennn-2
LOLLLCANO
700-900 pictures of wedding photography work to edit, retouching, skin smoothing, etc.
Expected turnaround time of 24 hrs... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Editing 900 pictures in 24 hours!
FUCK YOU JOHN!
- Do an action on all of them?section_014
- Set facemonNom
- Capture One is your friend.Morning_star
- fadein110
Nothing new I know but think more about products rather than services, it has more longevity, profitability and less hard work.
- Ben990
I'll be curious to see images of exemples you guys find innovative, fresh and new in graphic design. Post 'em up in this thread.
- Projectile0
Back in my day, to create a static web page you had to do a two year web design course.
Now, I'm able to use my design skills to create something that works nicely, looks good and doesn't look anything like the template I started with.
I yearn not for the "good old days"
- I dunno about that - I think yesteryear's web was a lot simpler than today's...detritus
- set0
Graphic design isn't dying.
Ok, sorted.
- ArchitectofFate0
zzz clickbaiting me with death-related-headlines...
graphic design isn't dying, it's transcending. Everyone with a camera still isn't a photographer, instagram doesn't create art directors, doing 10y of compulsory-school-nativelanguage... doth not a copywriter make.
I blame todays blandness on our twilight zone programmers. They want to call themself interface dudes, experience gurus or hack-anyffin's. Few have understood the following: The ultimate goal of ui/ux/xd designers is to rationalize themself away. So what do you do when everything looks the same, and you're actively working towards being marginalized?
now I must get back to my soulcrushing work
- templates are great btw, when they fail the "real" companies come begging for the good stuff anyway.ArchitectofFate
- monNom0
And that prescription could totally be a WordPress template, depending on their budget. They still need the strategy and expertise to fill it with good content and compelling imagery, to make sure it's designed to reach their goals, to differentiate then from their competition, to monitor and refine it through testing and iteration.
Wix isn't doing any of that.