Graphic Design is dying
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- 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
- 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
- Bennn-3
Uber is cheaper taxi
Airbnb is cheaper hotel
''name a service'' is cheaper graphic designWe're in that era.
- D4W33D1
- every problem has its solution
https://www.youtube.…gonzalle - hahaha film today!mugwart
- this is how a programmer feels in meetingsmugwart
- every problem has its solution
- 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
- pango4
Everything is dying.
- dbloc13
I know this idiot that does logos for $5
- They're horrible too.jtb26
- Ugh that guy.pango
- Lets kill him.dirtydesign
- Can't believe this. The clients are probably amazing, too!iCanHazQBN
- i need a $5 logo asapsea_sea
- Something is wrong when a bottle of kombucha costs more than a logosublocked
- the rise of kombucha trend is weird enough for me...pango
- Graphic design shouldn't only be affordable to the 1% and their corporate slave goons though.omg
- Kombucha? Isn't that a drink of the 00s?SimonFFM
- Kombucha on tap my next businesssublocked
- I have no idea what Kombucha is, but it sounds like a bug that is crushed to make pigment and colouring. Instead of red, it makes yellow or something.face_melter
- it tastes like that, face_meltermonospaced
- Eww kambucha. As a kid my mom made this and made me drink it. Disgusting. It's basically a fermented mushroom, you drink the water. Gag me.sea_sea
- I was painting a mural for a resturaunt and the owner said he'd been getting a dude in India to do all his design for about £5 per item, including menus.PhanLo
- qoob-3
- doesnotexist0
capitalism is dying and merging with new democracy/socialism
- 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
- obey_pdx3
This topic is such a loaded debate... Sorry, but I am definitely going to agree with Ben99...
1.) Portland and Seattle design firms have dropped their rates significantly in regards to paying designers in the past 5 years...
2.) Staffing agencies dominate all job postings... Why? Because companies no longer hire full-time employees, especially designers, especially at the rates they once were (both figuratively and financially) - it's per project and little to no benefits >>> this saves them money and this is the model that continues to thrive >>> temp works and contractual workers over full-time employees
3.) Bad design is everywhere, it has been and will always be - people are marginally getting better and software is getting easier to use - this creates way more "pseudo-designers" and way less "serious clients"... They come to expect mediocre and are shocked by what true and talented designers charge.
4.) "Coding" has replaced "designing"... People often try to convert designers into coders... If you can do both, you are much more valuable. This "lessens" the role of a typical designer...
5.) Marketing and design has and will always be the first thing to get cut in most corporate environments unless it's the core business need.You combine those factors (amongst several others) and you have what most markets are experiencing today >>> an oversaturated market where everyone is a designer, yet there still only are a few really good designers per city
- http://i.hizliresim.…Bluejam
- +1 for eloquencetryother
- people always say things are getting worse when they are getting older and losing touch a little.fadein11
- 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.
- formed0
Another "service" has emerged on Facebook. "Lightboard" which promises to be a "turnkey" solution for all your graphic needs. Woohoo. I swear every profession out there is going to be commoditized and turned into some vc funded scheme.