Graphic Design is dying
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- 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.
- i_monk0
Not everything needs to be innovative, needs to stand out.
- utopian0
dead?
- 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
- 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???
- utopian0
Partially on life support.
- Bennn0
You can learn graphic design for free : https://www.udemy.com/introducti…
- bainbridge0
People always appreciate good design and good food, etc, but we often settle for mediocre too.
- Hayoth0
Thats why their is an industry push for strategic design, design thinking and business strategy.
- 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.
- mg330
By it's very definition, graphic design can't die. Being very literal here, but as long as people are designing graphics, graphic design is alive and well.
I think what you meant to say is that innovative creativity, and unique, eye-catching design is dying TO YOU either because you're seeing less work that blows you away, or you feel like everything you see is largely inspired by something that preceded it, and lacks any sense of uniqueness. The "art" of it, I guess. That largely comes down to the exposure you provide yourself into what's out there. If you only wander grocery store aisles for inspiration, or evidence of great design work, you're probably going to be unsatisfied and left wanting more. But if you actively seek out a wide variety of work in publications, annuals, exhibits, websites, etc. I think you'll find plenty out there that's turning heads and accomplishing the goals someone had for it, whether a personal art project, a client project, or anything else.
- monoboy0
Professional work is being commoditised because people are expensive. We all want more, faster, cheaper.
It's the free-market way.
The only way to win is to make sure you don't have to work to earn. Using money to make money instead.
Otherwise, it's gonna be tough out there.
- formed-2
Parts of it are dying. Like all these templates that are "good enough" there seems to be a new "$5 logo" thing popping up on Facebook every month or so.
I've personally seen a lot of marketing types learning more Adobe products and thinking they are "designers".
Quality will always be quality, though. That's one of the largest things I've learned. I thought technology would change a lot, but it really hasn't done much. Web is the only real place I see there being a "new standard of mediocrity".
- For ''normal'' people, graphic design quality is often made in Word and they really like it.Ben99
- The web always had mediocrity - a million terrible flash sites and bad Gifs... look harder or not hard at all - www.siteinspire.net for example.fadein11
- Ben99-3
Hi guise!
when I wrote this thread, it was an on the spot thinking and I wanted to create a discussion, it works! thanks.
I know graphic design is not really dying, but it is in mutation right now. The digital age is changing a lot of stuff around us and it's still unclear where it is going exactly. The music industry is changing, the book and magazines industry is changing, the news media are changing... So is graphic design. None of those are really dying, they're just mutating in something new, and at the moment we're at the end of a chapter and the beginning of another.
- Things change.weirdname
- yeah, like our facesBen99
- All day, every day.
Such is naturePepeTheFrog
- Bennn-1
Squarespace, the website to make websites...
Squarespace worth 1,700,000,000$ ... in 2017, it's probably way more now.
Millions of websites that Web designers will never design...
- I get tons of Squarespace design gigs. Lower cost than from-scratch sites, but disproportionately less work for me too.e-wo