I've been hearing a lot lately about graphic design jobs that no longer exist, like the illustrator that drew the art director's concepts, or the guy who assembled the art board (hell, I don't even know what these people are called.) I wonder if, in several (or not so several) years, young students in graphic design will be talking about how there used to be (just) print designers and can you believe how much paper they wasted?
I'm sure our medium will greatly evolve, much like how the graphic design world had to make the drastic conversion to go digital (luckily I missed that whole thing and started graphic design in the 2000s). I just wonder how our field will change and hope our jobs don't become obsolete. Creativity can never become obsolete (...I don't think), but I'm going to take a few extra web classes just in case this whole print thing goes out of style.
I guess all you can do is try to stay current and then brace yourself when Apple or Microsoft comes out with a hologram computer or robot or something.
Until then, I'll keep polishing my Adobe skills and hope I can still use them in the years to come.
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