PhotoSketch: The Web 3.0 Rapture & Graphic Design Apocalypse

Get ready for a career change. Tao Chen's PhotoSketch just may eliminate the availability of graphic design jobs in the market. Essentially, the PhotoSketch operates as follows: the software takes any rough sketch (with the shape of each element labeled with its name), finds images corresponding to each drawn element, judges which are a best suited to match the rough shapes, and then seamlessly merges all the components into a single image. Cutting corners never looked so easy.

Polishing Up Newspapers [Poh•lish] Style

Jacek Utko is an art director from Poland, but is better known for revolutionizing the way newspapers are designed and printed.


Fact:
Utko was twice credited by the Society for News Design with the "World’s Best Designed Newspaper" in the largest international design competition.



Utko believes that the key to "redesign" lies in changing the whole product through concept, strategy,and design. Perhaps newspapers can be salvaged after all?