Comments on: Everyone is a designer http://www.digitaldust.org/2002/12/17/everyone-is-a-designer/ some stuff Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:46:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: David Rosser http://www.digitaldust.org/2002/12/17/everyone-is-a-designer/#comment-54 David Rosser Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.digitaldust.org/blog/?p=142#comment-54 This blog drives home something I heard David Bowie say a couple of years ago which I'd forgotten: When asked about the role of tech and its effect of the music industry in the future, he replied to the effect that with the prevalence of cheap authoring technology (graphix software, ProTools, iMovie etc.), the power of production will be brought to the hands of the masses, BUT...the result will be the 'cheapening' of music and art to the extent that it would be reduced to just another form of data. -which is exactly what is happening. I have worked in the music/redording industry for over eighteen years and the print/design industry for over ten, and have seen the results in both - loss of work, competing with potential clients in both industries against someone's 17-year-old with a PC who can work apallingly cheap, and continually having to spend time educating the clients on what a GOOD piece is. Most amateurs generate shitty stuff, which gives a modicum of job security for the pro, but like you say, a great percentage will be satisfied with mediocrity for a low cost. ...but i'm not bitter......? This blog drives home something I heard David Bowie say a couple of years ago which I’d forgotten:
When asked about the role of tech and its effect of the music industry in the future, he replied to the effect that with the prevalence of cheap authoring technology (graphix software, ProTools, iMovie etc.), the power of production will be brought to the hands of the masses, BUT…the result will be the ‘cheapening’ of music and art to the extent that it would be reduced to just another form of data.

-which is exactly what is happening.
I have worked in the music/redording industry for over eighteen years and the print/design industry for over ten, and have seen the results in both - loss of work, competing with potential clients in both industries against someone’s 17-year-old with a PC who can work apallingly cheap, and continually having to spend time educating the clients on what a GOOD piece is.

Most amateurs generate shitty stuff, which gives a modicum of job security for the pro, but like you say, a great percentage will be satisfied with mediocrity for a low cost.

…but i’m not bitter……?

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