Down the drain with creativity
With everyone becoming a ‘graphic designer’ these days, the graphic design industry is getting more and more crowded. Clients are losing trust and think they know better than the professional because they’ve got a copy of Photoshop on their computer.

Speider Schneider wrote an interesting article about this ‘death on creativity’ on Processed Identity which I think everybody should read:
I needed my appendix removed so while being wheeled into surgery, I told the doctor I only budgeted $200 for the operation but if I liked his work, I had other organs he could remove down the line at a higher fee. I asked if he wouldn’t mind if I had a few people look over his work and make some suggestions on how he performed the operation. One of them was my 10 year-old son because he was a whiz at the game “Operation.” When I came to, I was in the gutter wearing nothing but a hospital gown and my appendix still rupturing.
Read more: http://processedidentity.com/article/that-dirty-word-creative/




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April 15, 2010 - 16:42
Thanks very much for the post and the link. The author has been great about replying to everyones comments, making it an even better read.
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