How Stock Illustrations Ruin Design

This is going to be a quick post, but I feel with everyone becoming more computer savvy these days, that graphic design is starting to become watered down. Anyone with a page layout program can “design” something and the explosion of cheap outlets to purchase stock photos and illustrations is only helping.

This is a redesign for the Romania tourism. The image on the bottom left is the original stock illustration. You’ll see the Romania logo uses the exact illustration of the leaf. On the bottom right, an Irish company called Change Transport uses the illustration only making simple edits by adding spacing and adding a third wheel. WHERE’S THE CREATIVITY IN THAT!?

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