> On Sep 24, 2015, at 1:05 PM, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> For graphic designers, Adobe has played a significant role over the past
> three decades. The consequences have not been particularly kind to graphic
> designers with the effect being to significantly reduce the size of design
> teams and, by reducing the time needed for each job, reduce the numbers of
> graphic design practitioners that the available work can support . This
> increases competition on pricing, further pressing on graphic designers'
> incomes. It has also required graphic designers to make significant
> investment in Adobe software to remain competitive.
Terry,
Your assumption seems to be that graphic design is a zero sum game and it’s all about graphic designers. By your description, efficiency simply reduces employment.
The software you are talking about has reduced—more like eliminated—employment for typesetters, color separators, stat camera operators, and strippers but it seems to me that there are a lot more employed graphic designers than there were in 1986. It looks like many factors expanded the market for graphic design so that it more than made up for any reduction in team size and time required.
Schools graduate more graphic designers each year than I would guess existed thirty years ago. (I don’t know how many get jobs but most of our graduates from East Carolina do.)
Gunnar
Gunnar Swanson
East Carolina University
graphic design program
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