Graphic Design is dying
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- Hayoth0
Thats why their is an industry push for strategic design, design thinking and business strategy.
- i_monk0
Not everything needs to be innovative, needs to stand out.
- 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.
- hotroddy0
Everything is dying but there is still money to be made. You just need to specialize.
Why hire a LAWYER if you have legalzoom.com?
Why hire an ACCOUNTANT when you can do it at turbotax.com?
Why hire a VIDEOGRAPHER when you can shoot and edit on your phone using a million free apps.
Why do you need a retoucher when you can retouch your own photos on your phone?But I agree... asking someone if he knows to build a website sounds similar if he knows how to use powerpoint. And Wix.com advertising free custom websites on TV doesn't help our industry either.
- utopian1
A vast majority of my clients are now asking for "theme like designs" that are customized not to look exactly like the $40- theme that they just purchased...but they don't want to spend a lot of money on a unique custom experience and design. Fuck it...the client is always right!
- monNom3
I'm going to just repeat what everyone else is saying. Design is not dying. The market for visual design services, and communications strategy is probably larger than it's ever been. Every company has an Instagram these days, along with a voracious appetite for new content to feed it. Who's going to fill it up with images, that stand out and attract followers, if not a creative?
As for Wix et al. That's not your market anyways. It's not even a design service. It's an assembly line product. People get tricked into thinking the product is what they're buying when really they want expertise.
You don't go to a doctor because he sells you the same prescription he sells everyone else. You got to a doctor because he knows what to ask and what to look for so that you get the right prescription for your needs, and then you get better.
- 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.
- qoob-3
- weirdname2
- YOUR DRAWING IS SHIT!Ben99
- https://36.media.tum…weirdname
- set0
Graphic design isn't dying.
Ok, sorted.
- set10
If you think graphic design is dying then I imagine it's because you're being left in the dust and not keeping up. It's not dying but it's certainly changing and heading in new directions, and if you dont change with it then I understand how one might perceive it as dying.
Regardless, it's a small minded and massively over generalised statement so I guess the only thing left to do is gfy
- <- I'm with the smart guyBluejam
- +1weirdname
- ThisBaskerviIle
- Agreedterry_cloth
- GD 2.0omg
- ✅dbloc
- 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
- 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
- chukkaphob5
- Stoner Slothtank02
- hehe my thoughts exactlyVectorMasked
- hahah! sums up this thread/topic perfectly.Krassy
- go back to pic of the day Krassy. Drown your brain with funny stuff. ktxbyeBen99
- @Ben99 I might just do that because "Pic of the Day" is a lot more intriguing, inspiring, entertaining and stimulating than this here negativity =)Krassy
- OkBennn
- monoboy-3
Styling has been commoditised, design hasn't.
- ...because it's about business.monoboy
- Design hasn't been commoditized? I can't think of a single thing that haven't been commoditized in this world (and I'm OK with it).weirdname
- Design is about adding cash value to businesses. You can't commoditise that because it requires unique thought.monoboy
- Are you talking about commodification? In either case design can be (and in my opinion already is) commodified and
commoditized.weirdname - I saw a commercial for Wix today, and I think you're right, monoboymonospaced
- Just take a look at Behance. Thousands of perfectly crafted homogenous approaches.monoboy