What Impact Have Digital Technologies Had on the Graphic Design Industry?
The following essay is a summary of the impacts that digital technologies have made on the graphic design process. This essay includes the history of technological changes and the tools that technology has created. The essay will also consist of the contributions that have been made by computers in the process of graphic design. The last part will consist of the negative impacts of technology on graphic design as well as the changes that have been achieved in graphic design as a result of technology advancements. This paper will expose the relationship between developments in technology and their impact on graphic design. In today’s world technology is playing a major part of people’s lives, either as a socialization tool or as a working tool. For example, some people get seriously stressed when they cannot access the Internet and a majority of people confess that technology has had a great impact in their lives. Technology has had both positive and negative impacts on graphic design. On one hand, it made it easier to do the work due to technological innovations such as printers, scanners, the Internet and designing program but on the other hand it has killed creativity with applications such as Photoshop, which are now replacing the old tradition of originality, skills and ideas. Too much dependence on technology has made many graphic designers slaves to technology and many are now not concerned about originality, good judgment and hands-on experience. Some of the graphic designers who support technology argue on the contrary that advanced design software enables them to save time by allowing them skip some of the steps involved in manual design process such as old copy, stripping and past. They also believe that technology has brought about a shift in the creative process, as graphic designers now create designs using technology, compared to designers in the earlier days that carried out the same creation but using traditional methods. In the