Technology plays a major role in the field of Graphic Design. The impact of technology in the field of Graphic Design is both positive and negative.
In earlier times, when technology was not evolved, the approach towards meeting the clients, getting to know about their ideas and getting the designs approved was more personal and communication based, but now since the evolution of technology the approach towards this has become more digital based though the use of text/email which has both positive and negative impacts. The positive impact would be that the process of communicating has become much simpler, for example- if a client needs to get some designing work done by a graphic designer they can simply email/text them and they can get their work and discuss about ideas easily. It has also become easier to display your work on various websites but again if we do so the chances of plagiarism are very high. On the other hand, the negative impact would be that even though due to the easy process of communicating through the help of technology is useful but it increases the chances of mistakes, because an idea explained by the client through email/text could easily be misunderstood by the designer and vice versa. As quoted by Frank Chimero, “Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs.” So, because of technology, there are a lot of websites which display various designs and allow us to purchase that design, these services are impacting the graphic designers because even if someone doesn’t purchase the design file, they can easily duplicate the idea of the designer by creating the exact same type of design by their own.
In a nutshell, even though there are many advantages that come with the evolution of Technology, but at the end Technology is definitely the mortal enemy of Graphic Design and various other fields.
