With today’s technological proliferation in many aspects of our daily lives, we can see a degeneration of our work ethic, creativity, and plain motivation. Now that we have computers and phones doing every nuance of our bidding, we’ve become, in a word, lazy.
As a day-to-day schmoe, this didn’t come to me as much of a shock, but as a designer this means that the very tools I use to create may actually be sapping the juice out of my imagination.
I realized all this when I stumbled upon an article called “The Dying Art of Design” from Smashing Magazine, which infers that modern designers rely too heavily on built-in program tools and effects, online freebies, and inspiration lists that what they end up designing becomes so diluted and generic due to the massive and immediate information transfer of the Internet. Trends spring up and designers pounce on them to gobble the best and brightest of visual elements until newer, cooler trends emerge.
