Having worked as a Graphic Designer for my first year out of college one thing convinced me to change professions and work towards getting a job in IT.  While there were many pitfalls to being a designer (deadlines, dealing with sales people, low salary, and complete undervaluing of the trade to name a few), the one thing that convinced me to change careers was that everyone thinks they’re a designer.  Ever since the advent of Kid Pix and clip art everyone has their own ideas of what “good design” is and treat the designer themselves simply as a tool to complete the final product.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had sales people drop off a brand new ad to be designed two days after the deadline only to look at the design and say “It looks good, but could you change all the colors, center justify the text, make the car take up the whole frame, and just make it pop more…  It looks flat.”

“Well how do you want to make it ‘pop’?”

“I don’t know, you’re the designer!”

But… I digress.  For more asinine comments that are all to familiar with the design world, check out http://clientsfromhell.tumblr.com/

But none of that matters now because thanks to flavor.me, everyone can be a designer!  It no longer takes 4+ years of design school and art theory and learning best practices to have good design sense.  Now a computer program can do all that for you in under an hour!  The video below illustrates my point.

But not all art is portrayed in the visual form.  Music is an art form too…  But have no fear, because now you don’t need to have years of experience playing an instrument to become the next DJ AM, you just need a grand and about ten minutes with the new Tenori-on!  The video below explains what the Tenori-on is.

Great, now we’ll have a bunch of noobs suddenly becoming fans of house music because they can play it too! We should just take art out of schools all together.  Kids can just learn it with the right gadget/website in a couple hours anyway.