Post #2192011
2026-05-04 16:55 UTC
‘the tool is controlling us as much as we are controlling it’. like other industries, and society at large, the graphic design profession is not spared from the pressure to scale and speed up.
‘having so much design knowledge embedded in the tool takes away the design intelligence’, as Joost Grootens points out here: https://youtu.be/RI7XmLCXBJo?si=hSEQL75m1PgBYLF2&t=954
7 out of 9 planetary boundaries have already been broken and yet designers contribute to the problem by designing custom typefaces for AI firms or launching projects where every single word is generated with AI. designers should find solutions to such problems, not contribute to making them even worse.
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@apsiapsi@typo.social 2026-05-04 16:57
producing a 3-colour zine composed of three different page sizes is no easy feat. we learned about horizontal shrinkage the hard way. but ultimately, things worked out (some degree of imperfection is part of the process). bringing back some friction into the design and production process had been my goal from the beginning.