Is print dead?
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- utopian0
Both print and web are both dead!
When was the last time you got a boner looking at a cutting website that wasn't a WordPress theme or some modified theme from Template Monster of Theme Forest?
R.I.P. Design
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- i_monk0
There's more to print design than advertising campaigns, you know.
- lemmy_k0
As someone that ran the press for over 25 years, I'd say the days of big budget stuff has almost died off. Printings Hay Day is LONG gone. I haven't worked in three years running a press and there hasn't been a press operator job opening in a lot longer than that. The stuff that still gets actual press work is mostly mass mailing stuff.
- MrT0
Another important aspect for me, perhaps a design curse, is I want to keep and covet a book or poster or ticket or beer mat or brochure - any beautiful piece of print. Digital will arguably never have that collectible permanence because the device, the OS and the delivery method, never mind the DRM will constantly change and leave me with nothing but outdated files.
- instrmntl0
If Design’s No Longer the Killer Differentiator, What Is?
http://www.wired.com/opinion/201…
- GeorgesII0
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yeah but the number of "art students" exiting "art school" have increased tenfolds, I was discussing this with a senior copy (25+ years) and he was telling me how bad were the average intern these days and how us, AD don't have the time to properly train them so the circle of shit keeps getting worst.
print is still one of the most effective medium but clients are just not convinced anymore of investing huge amount of money into it when you can make a facciadiculo campaign for 10% of the price.
- pango0
I still see print as the final product for an photograph.
it's not a finished art work unless it's printed properly.
- bjladams0
@MrT
print as in books, mag's, event propaganda, and so on seems to be almost completely gone for me.
which goes against what i believed up till about a year ago. i was a big supporter of tangible stuff. mostly used books.
but, over this last little while i've started noticing that i'm only reading on the tablet, i've not bought a magazine in years, almost every place i go has an e-ticket and online info that's easily accessible...
i don't think it's been a conscious decision, totally - but when i noticed it, i was taken back a bit. but then i looked around at all the printed stuff i had that just was just gathering dust.
it sparked a bit of a cleaning up around the place over this last year - getting rid of extra weight. i love my books, but looking thru the library, there are so many that i'd never consider reading again... so, i've been carving it down to just the ones that have really impressed me.
i still like to have art prints - but if they're not framed and on the wall being noticed, i'm giving them away. even my own work - i've got boxes of it, and if it's not seeing the light of day, it's being sold or given to people who want it. i gave an entire drawer full of drawings to a local school for the kids to color in... they made it look much nicer.
that's all just a recent personal development... not an opinion on 'print' as a whole.
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as far as advertising collateral goes - about half of what we do here at the office is design for print. but probably over half of that again is print that supports an online campaign of some sort.
- boobs0
Print seems to be an integral part of packaging, and there is some wonderful stuff being done in packaging.
Point-of-purchase displays too.
I mean, some of the most interesting design I see is in high-end grocery stores. Beautiful packaging and labels for booze, chocolate, canned foods, juices, coffee, etc.
- Glitterati_Duane0
I'm a print designer and I love the "idea" of print but I have to admit that I haven't supported print publications as much as I should. Mostly because I can get a lot of the same content from blogs. That said, I treat myself to a magazine or 2 a year and still enjoy the tactile sensation of it but career wise I'm focussing on using my design skills to prop me up as an expert in strategy development. My thinking is that I can translate this across the board to print and digital.
- teh0
Print isn't dead its just been redefined by software,self-publishing and digital/direct to print. I guess you can say its just been streamlined
- ********0
i still prefer print for a little bathroom reading. also comes in handy incase there is no tp.
- monNom0
When I do pick up a magazine now, given that I get most of my info online, I'm struck by just how much advertising and how little content there is in the average publication. Print's dying for a good reason IMO.
Books it's still nice to have a paper version, if only to give away once you're done with it.
- scarabin0
print's not gonna die until the world stops making paper.
we're nowhere near that point yet
- DaveO0
Americans can't talk about the death of print until they stop using fucking cheques. I mean, CHEQUES!?!?!?!
- yurimon0
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- d_rek0
@yurimon
Same phenomenon is happening in Detroit. There are now like 3 or 4 letterpress studios that have popped up in the last few years and exist pretty much as 'fine arts' rather than commercialized printing. They also charge like it's fucking fine art too.
- Wow! I can run one of those. I can pick one up for about $1500. Maybe I should do that.lemmy_k
