Zed A. Shaw, Painter

Any hatred of industrialization in design is now far too late. Design is a discipline born in a world of commercialization and entirely about selling people products, beliefs, and propaganda. The entire discipline has zero moral ground when talking about industrial capitalism.

Especially modern Design's root in Futurism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism  Which was the foundation of fascism and a major inspiration of industrialization, the brutality of the machine, and methods of fascis propaganda.

Paintings like this involved many many layers of oil paint, with each layer needing weeks to months to dry before the next layer. Flowers don't last that long, and many of these flowers don't bloom at the same time. Some of these paintings could also take 6 months, 2 seasons.

1. When the flowers are in bloom do small paintings of them from the same light direction. 2. When they'd get a commission they'd reuse these flowers as reference and basically copy them. 3. These were kept secret, with assistants being yelled at for not locking "the cabinet".

That, my friends, is systematization--or industrialization if you want to make people hate being good at making a product--so to say artists hate using systems is ludicrous. It's an entirely modern idea born out of the boomer's obsession with Freudian/Jungian psychology in art.

In fact, every time I see someone whine and complain about being forced to bow down to The Man and create a design system, I almost always catch them using a homegrown system to get their work done faster. Macros, templates, tricks, brushes, special software, everything.