Comparing Graphic Design Development Through the Years
Justin Lemaire
There are many different areas of graphic design in which modern technology has helped the process along significantly. For example, computers have allowed people the opportunity to fill and render objects instantaneously, allowing them to save hours per drawing when compared with a graphic design they might have created off the internet. Yes, there can be absolutely no disagreement whatsoever on the fact that graphic design software in a computer environment allows a higher efficiency of design versus time for most graphic designers.
However, the people that are critical of modern graphic design through the use of computers actually point to this very fact as being the reason that computers have made graphic design worse rather than better. While they agree that efficiency is up, the argument you are likely to hear from these people is that the creativity of the graphic designer is not better served by being able to create more things in less time. They would argue that the relative creativity is actually down since the graphic design professional now has the opportunity to pursue quantity in the hopes of finding something good as opposed to quality creative development.
It’s an interesting argument, albeit one I don’t particularly buy. Anyone that’s sat at their computer staring at a monitor for an hour straight knows that the creative process of graphic design online can be just as frustrating and long-winded if you use the same method of creative generation.
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