Designing Through Disruption: 30 Years of Graphic Design Change with Graham Bell

Graham Bell has been a graphic designer for 30 years, creating somewhere between 55,000 and 60,000 pieces of artwork for everyone from local cafés to Ferrari, Shell and the University of Oxford. He started when artwork was photographed by a camera the size of a small car, and watched that entire world vanish within a couple of years when the Mac arrived.Now it's happening again. In this conversation, Graham is refreshingly honest about what AI and Canva have done to his business, the clients he's lost, and why he went from fearing AI to using it every single day. We talk about the designers who refused to adapt last time, why "good enough" is reshaping the industry, whether people actually care if art is made by a human, and what a 30-year career teaches you about riding a wave of change rather than being swept away by it.Find out more about Graham:Website: absolutegraphics.co.ukLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/graham-bell-90323316In Progress with Tim Miller explores the human side of AI and robotics. Find the human signal in the noise at inprogress.show