Getting older and working in design
Getting older and working in design
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- Nutter0
Many years ago, when I was still studying, I was out in the city with some friends. We came across a homeless man and fell into a talk with him. A friend asked him what he used to do, his answer: "he use to be a graphic designer".
As my friends were leaving I gave him what cash I happened to have, hoping that some day that little bit of karma would prevent me from end up in the same situation...
- At the height of my profitability as a commercial illustrator, I got chatting to a neighbour and we asked each other what we did. I told him I was...Horp
- a commercial illustrator and he said 'ah yes, I know lots of those'. He then went on to say he knew a lot of once very succesful illos who were all now ...Horp
- on the breadline. He said that none of them saw changes coming and found themselves utterly redundant as technology and younger people's styles pushed them out.Horp
- Most of them were depressed, unemployed, big drinkers, he said. I realised that very day I would not be doing illo for the rest of my life as I had assumed.Horp
- and sure enough I started to see my once advanced photoshop working looking distinctly creaky against newer ideas and styles from kids who were 60% cheaper.Horp
- :(Ben99
- Oh man.versus