What good are designers anyway? Pair Affinnova with n_Gen Design Engine and you have the best thing since PageMaker 1.0 turned every wanker with a Mac Classic into a graphic designer overnight. n_Gen is actually a very innovative piece of software... a bit too much effort went into this for it to simply be the elaborate joke it looks like. n-Gen works like this: users select a style ["California Noir�" = David Carson, "Urbivore�" = Peter Saville, etc.], then plug in their own title and text, then the software apparently churns through some algorithms and pumps out a unique graphic layout. The end product is blatantly a stylistic rip-off, but a unique design nonetheless. The best part is that its free! I just downloaded a copy for the Lab, and will be futzing around with it tonight. Could lop hours or days off the design process for club flyers... or even annual reports! ;)
Ughh. So, is design dead?

Really, go download yourself a copy and we'll do a little reader/conspirator n_Gen gallery right here. The good folks at Move Design who created this thing have quite a sense of humor about it. Here is a description of the Urbivore� design module: "Feel the angst and decay of the city in the comfort of your own studio, with Urbivore�. Sophisticated, cosmopolitan and spare, four out of five professional designers agree, it's the most faithful reproduction of minimalist - post - apocalyptic - grit - chic available."