Ep 40: The Great Creative Devaluation: Did We Do This To Ourselves?
Thu Jul 10 2025
Let’s talk about the big, ugly question no one wants to ask:
Are creatives part of the reason we’re being undervalued?
This episode digs into the painful shift we’re seeing across the industry, layoffs, budget cuts, clients ghosting their design partners, and explores how we might’ve accidentally helped speed it along. From our obsession with aesthetics over outcomes to the slow creep of Canva and AI tools, it’s time to stop pointing fingers and start looking in the mirror.
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Let’s talk about the big, ugly question no one wants to ask: Are creatives part of the reason we’re being undervalued? This episode digs into the painful shift we’re seeing across the industry, layoffs, budget cuts, clients ghosting their design partners, and explores how we might’ve accidentally helped speed it along. From our obsession with aesthetics over outcomes to the slow creep of Canva and AI tools, it’s time to stop pointing fingers and start looking in the mirror.