Graphic design, the discipline of aesthetic production, is facing a crisis as it reconciles with catastrophic effects of network technology on its profitability. Even prolific designers who produce work with a characteristic original aesthetic are quickly copied. As their work is pillaged and reproduced downstream (leftstream), it becomes... See more

More beauty and craft,

less factory line

More weird and rebellious,

less safe and derivative

More really hard inspired work,

less status games

More authentic expression of self,

less patagonia vest

If Algorithmic Modernism was focused on:

• Algorithmic success / max social marketing


• Templates


• Vibes


• Conspicuous provocation


• Optimization


• Attention


• Being online


• Conspicuous consumption


• Industry and consumerism

Then Post-Algo Design is focused on:

• Taste


• Humanism


• Romanticism


• Emotional depth


• Intimacy (see the Intimacy Economy)


• Going analog/Offline


• Nostalgia


• Privacy and

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