Graphic Design is dying
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- Bennn0
"The End of Professional Photography?"
article: https://medium.com/@robert.rittm…
and: https://www.thephoblographer.com…
- -Now read this and apply it to Graphic Design:
"The article centers around the fact that all things in the technology world start out strong with early adopters going on to make huge sums of money,
followed by the masses who buy the same technology as they want a piece of the pie, which then leads to the early adopters offering to teach the newbies everything they know for a chunk of change, and then the industry dies due to overcrowding.
The author likens the world of professional photography to desktop publishing and web development, both of which apparently suffered this fate.
In fact he says that once people begin to offer services that will help teach others, it’s game over."I'm not saying he's right, but it's true that graphic design and photography are not only for real professionals anymore, lots of persons jump in the boat and improvise themselves as pros, and this is devaluating the profession
- There's probably a larger market for professional photography(and video) now than every before. Sometimes increasing supply increases demand as well.monNom
- Just look at Instagram, it's insatiable.monNom
- lots of enthusiats and good amateurs on Instagram, dunno how many real prosBennn
- Nah if it just means tons of all-the-gear-no-idea dingbats doing gash work, leaving decent designers to fix it all, bring it on.MrT
- * I claim no decency.MrT
- ... the same arguments were being made when Kodak came out with roll film. No one predicted the rise of photo-journalism, it will go on you just have to trustzarkonite
- the creativity of artists. The masses just follow trends and then quit out of boredom.zarkonite
- Well, it's kinda hard to say you're a pro with 1 year experience or less...grafician