Signs your getting old?
Signs your getting old?
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I work with some 22-26 y/o fellows that never studied editorial design. I mean, they put up layouts for digital stuff like commerce and landing pages, but have NEVER had an infatuation with Emigre, Raygun, The Face, i+d, Print, or shit. They just fucking exist and make me feel old and grumpy.
- i am treated like a sad mystical wizard who is called in when shit hits the fan and or the project is near catastrophic failurejonny_quest_lives
- it's not a good existencejonny_quest_lives
- https://filmschoolre…jonny_quest_lives
- the Template Generationben98
- time to retired_gitale
- Don’t forget B I K I N I magazineprophetone
- You hired the wrong people. I know kids who know this stuffbainbridge
- Raygun and Print were never goodbainbridge
- Ah BIKINI. Had a few issues.microkorg
- As Ben said above - the template generation. and instead of a library of design books at home they've got Pinterest.microkorg
- Across my office is a "TikTok agency", I see all these young people and don't understand what they're doing.SimonFFM
- if you care about some but not all of them is that ok :D fuckin hate raygunArchitectofFate
- How do you NOT know what Emigre and Raygun are? I mean, do they even know what kerning like a bitch means?maikel
- Embrace the idiocracy while you can, AI will make them all irrelevant soonBluejam
- All those fantastic magazines date back to 25 years ago. The challenge lies in your hands to present them in a captivating and valuable mannerSlashPeckham
- Still see some nice magazine designs these days. Nothing groundbreaking but well designed.microkorg
- Can AI kern like a bitch? can it?
utopian, let us know.monospaced - lol i fucking hated editorial design.sted
- Baseline too...wordssssss
- I was chatting to a young designer today who just uses Canva, she was saying since leaving college it's easy to smash designs out in that. And fuck adobe.PhanLo
- Canva is for marketers who don't have budget for real designers, and who are happy to settle for absolute shit.monospaced
- An old school mate was using Canva to do his menus for his take away and his instagram posts. I still use Illustrator, hehe.PhanLo
- A good designer can get by in canva, but it isn’t a standalone by any means.monospaced