Graphic Design is dying
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- set0
Graphic design isn't dying.
Ok, sorted.
- weirdname2
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- i_monk0
Not everything needs to be innovative, needs to stand out.
- Hayoth0
Thats why their is an industry push for strategic design, design thinking and business strategy.
- yuekit0
It's exactly the opposite, graphic design has taken over everything. It would be like saying book design was dead when the printing press was invented because they were no longer created by hand by people with lifetimes of training. In that respect the bigger shift in graphic design was probably when everything went digital which happened decades ago. Methods always change, you have to keep adapting.
Also go back and look at the design of 10-15 years ago -- it's probably not as good as you are remembering.
- 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.
- bainbridge0
People always appreciate good design and good food, etc, but we often settle for mediocre too.
- 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.
- utopian0
Partially on life support.
- robotron3k0
Design isn't dying, it's just charging $5 per hour
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- Maaku0
Same thing for lettering and the thousands of designers doing the same recycled brush pen calligraphy....with a drop shadow, or outter glow, or outline, or stroke, or textured???