Oh, you do graphic design? So does my iPhone.
Next up: the InDesign plugin that turns photos and text into layout, and the Word macro that writes SEO-friendly punning headlines. And then in ten years’ time, people will be taken out of the equation altogether, and it’ll just be iPhones quietly talking to each other.
Tags: apps, graphic design, iphone, the death of graphic design
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You’re joking, Andrew, but I had a conversation last week with a production specialist at a magazine publisher who was testing spellcheck software as an alternative to subs!
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