Freelance Designers Can’t Compete With a $20/Month AI Subscription—Here’s What Actually Works Now
Dirk Petzold
Something broke quietly in the freelance design market around 2023. Not dramatically, not overnight—just a slow, steady thinning of the middle. The logo jobs dried up. The social media packages got cheaper. The “quick brand refresh” clients started asking if AI couldn’t just handle it. By 2025, that thinning had become a collapse. And in […] The post Freelance Designers Can’t Compete With a $20/Month AI Subscription—Here’s What Actually Works Now appeared first on WE AND THE COLOR .