""Digital media, and specifically the PhotoShop extension, has had a profound influence on the way that art directors and designers currently view illustration. Once graphic designers depended on the rendering skills and conceptual acuity of illustrators. Now they can assemble ersatz illustration-collages by themselves. PhotoShop has certainly not replaced illustrators altogether (and many fine illustrators employ PhotoShop as a tool), but this tool is far more threatening than any previous technological development in the history of illustration."
- Rise of computer aided design and the general loss of handmade and handcrafted art skills
- Threatening the role of the illustrator, less need for them as photoshop is cheaper alternative
- Threatening the role of the illustrator, less need for them as photoshop is cheaper alternative
Drawing A Comparison
"The so-called Golden Age of Illustration is generally considered to have been bracketed by the years 1880 and 1920."
"Grove said talent and distinctiveness are still the gold standard: “The bias of the industry is still to nurture and reward illustrators who strive for a very personal style.”"
"“The ‘graphic designer’ who makes things has merged with the illustrator, as the same plasticity I mentioned above applies to all sorts of richly visual designed things: packaging, environments, motion graphics, whatnot. We are enveloped by designed surfaces now, many of which are pictorial to some degree.”
He added, “’Graphic design’ and ‘illustration’ are a little less descriptive as terms than they used to be. … But the nouns still have utility, and people still self-identify as one or the other kind of practitioner, save for a subgroup of hybrid people who think of themselves as in-betweeners.”"
"The idea that something essential about all this was lost in the transition from nondigital to digital creation is largely a fiction, according to Steven J. Eskilson, art professor at Eastern Illinois University. “That’s a matter of opinion to a large degree,” he wrote in an email. “It would make sense that illustration by hand would be a more expressive, personal form of communication … but then again many graphic designers have developed signature styles while utilizing technological means. … It is true that technology has perhaps brought more homogeneity to graphic design because the software steers people in certain directions, but if you look at the mass of illustration from early in the century most of it was boring and conventional. So, no, I don’t think much has been lost overall but it would be nice as an art director to have talented illustrators as part of the crew.”
Kuo said the “real estate” that illustrators and designers have to work with and on is wider than ever: “The area where images need to be designed is broader. There seems to be an endless number of things that are asking to be created.”
http://www.brittonmdg.com/the-britton-blog/drawing-a-comparison
Digital Media and the Creative Process
"the challenges and the possibilities that designers encounter as they integrate digital tools into their daily work flow"
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5QwlAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=what+are+creatives+losing+to+digital+design+tools&source=bl&ots=bmv42MGHjm&sig=ywhv00ut3A2J5A63h7jgLPKVjYc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwisq9X8u7rQAhXCiiwKHRnlC34Q6AEIKDAD#v=onepage&q=what%20are%20creatives%20losing%20to%20digital%20design%20tools&f=false
"Digital Fabrication"
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sq7ABgAAQBAJ&pg=PA216&lpg=PA216&dq=what+are+creatives+losing+to+digital+design+tools&source=bl&ots=99iPXByMrH&sig=PBJY_PN76eTORhY2829MJG7jVQI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi5ucr3vLrQAhUBoBQKHc6iAdE4ChDoAQggMAE#v=onepage&q=what%20are%20creatives%20losing%20to%20digital%20design%20tools&f=false (page 216)
Some really useful articles/texts that have started to shape the core of my argument.
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