NFTs in the graphic design industry is an odd subject at this point. Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology has been around for quite a while. Most designers might use cryptocurrency in some cases sometimes for payment but the use of NFTs at the moment from what I see I think personally it is no more than just a fad.

There have been many people claiming that NFT’s and art galleries are the brand new thing but in reality, the way images are, someone can simply screenshot images or right click and save an image and it’s almost the same thing as the real thing.

The idea that someone legally owns it and then when they get an NFT that no one else can get it is from what I see is a bunch of hogwash. It is just like an idea that was slapped together and then hoped that someone will pay for it. In recent times for some unknown reason, there’s been a large amount of hype for NFTs 

 In reality, there are only a few people who are making money off these things and there’s a lot of people dumping their own money in it to create NFTs and it’s not doing anything.

 Blockchain technology is a good idea. But in this current format, I think it is practically useless.

The idea of NFTS being unique for digital products I think is a pile of Fools Gold. but is All Digital things it can be changed in the right way and it can become useful.

 In recent months I’ve heard some new things about NFTs which I think might become useful as they are tying items to people’s accounts with them such as video game items or things that people buy. Doing this allows additional security. So an NFT 3D model is linked to someone’s account so it can be made so someone else can’t purchase that item. That in itself I think might have some security on video games or a different medium compared to a standard image.

 I think that the hard part is that digital media in itself is a finicky medium. Someone can go and copy an image or copy a movie and it will be almost the same as the original one. The average person will not care as long as it looks the same as what they’re looking for or the resolution.

 Same thing with a transparent image. If I were trying to get a transparent image of something I would not care if it was the same thing I would just want the transparent image as long as it’s the same kind of file and it’s the right format. I would not care where it came from or if it was a copy.

 I think that’s the problem with the NFT’s right now that the current population of people might have cameras and they might know what images are but they don’t have technical knowledge of what images are composed of or how they work or the internal workings of them. For some weird reason, the idea of this image being 100% original exists and somehow that has value.

 I have seen some artists attach NFT’s to physical items. They have digital components attached like a digital photo frame with pictures and then they get like an original copy of a painting or something. But in reality, this isn’t an awful lot different than someone going outright and just buying a painting or a digital picture frame. It doesn’t make an awful lot of sense.

 So I think what is happening is that the idea of NFT’s in the graph design world and Digital Art and any that type of stuff is trying to find its meaning and people are trying to make meanings for and those meanings are not making much sense at the moment.

 I do think the one where people are purchasing digital items and having them linked through to a person’s account I think that is the route that things are going to be going.

Also with the rise of entities and the rise of VR headset environments, there is strainer pop up the ones that Facebook or currently named Meta or other companies that are trying to create. I think this end game might work in that format. I think this is going to work mainly because of things like avatars.

Avatars are a unique type of identity. People do not truly want these things to get taken on them and they want them to be linked to their account almost permanently. So if someone has an avatar that they bought and they don’t want someone else to take it to the NFT’s can link it to their account and it is downloaded from somewhere else or maybe there is a limited amount of downloads I can use as a unique identifier for people that are gaining updates for that software.

 So I think that is where the NFT’s will eventually end up going. They will go right into the metaverse with VR headsets not so much in plain static images. In my view just doing regular Images is kind of silly when people are putting them out online. An image-based avatar for a Facebook profile or something and people and just outright take them with a screenshot. With digital items for the VR headset, it’s much more difficult to try doing something like that. Not everything is loaded inside the headset. There is a lot of offloaded data because the space inside the headsets is limited. It’s easier for the NFT’s to be kind of like a verification saying okay this headset in this person’s account is this person so we’re going to allow access to the data of this Avatar to download to the headset and no one else.

 I think it’s in its early stages but I think there is some sort of value right now. People are just finding silly things trying to make money off of this type of digital receipt system in one trying to pair with items there easily stolen online such as videos or accounts or images. Something like that it’s practically useless and then trying to sell it to the average consumer out there that does not understand what files are and barely understands what the internet is even though they have used their whole lives it’s in sketchy territory right now. 

But I do think in the future you might see these things become more stable NFT’s have more meaning than they are right now so I think there is a future just not in its current form either.