(GD) = Graphic Design
Have computers, due to their apparent immediacy, lack of finialisation and ‘ease of generation’ devalued (GD) as a practice, or has it opened the doors of unlimited visual creativity? How has this effected (GD) as a medium for communication?
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One BIG effect I see is that it's put GD [more easily] in the hands of non-professionals. It's not hard for people to knock up [and even print] their own business cards, stationery, and posters etc . . .perhaps as a result there's more of what we would "bad design" around.
But I don't think that's devalued the profession at all, you could argue that it's actually made designers' lift their game, and maybe professional work stands out more as a result? I don't know?
One downside [of computers] I see often is via my students, and it's probably just an experience thing, but they have no appreciation of surface or craft when it comes to the design process – they see 'design' as the bit that they do on the computer, and then just output it thinking that's it it's finished, and quite often what looked good onscreen [all lit up!] looks flat and lifeless when output through an inkjet or laser printer.
Posted by Luke at April 4, 2004 02:51 PM