2007: no good designs?
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I also agree that design in general over the past few of years has suffered a major blow, due to all the $99- web templates, blogs, web 2.0 strategy, online clip art, stock photography, illustration, etc...
Everything globally including design and creative thinking has been treated just like a commodity E.g. (oil, grain, fruits, and vegetables, or metals). IT, UI Design, graphic design, advertising, etc... have all been outsourced to third-world countries for pennies on the dollar. This has severely diluted the creative economy and has diminished the value of creativity in general.
Although it is disheartening to hear that D&AD did not select any work from the design field this year, it is also a wake-up call for the design world to adjust to the new market conditions and a global creative paradigm shift. We must reinvent ourselves and our industry, adapt, evolve and or go existinct.
"Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation."
- Plato