all I'm saying is that I just think it's interesting and coincidental that every post-apocalyptic organization, from multiple gangs of absolute weirdos in Mad Max and Fist of the North Star to NERV in Eva, just so happens to have a graphic design/branding squad that delivers home run after home run

It's a scare tactic.

Marketing is important. Always.

A personal fave is TERRA from RahXephon, which answers the question "What if Starbucks was the Illuminati"

without internet, there is a LOT of time to be put into design skills.

Also huge caches of makeup and hair dye survive.

📌

Kink communities have the dyi to survive and thrive when the currency becomes handjobs and bootlecaps

survival bias

Graphic designers will have to do something in the apocalypse. I don't see myself driving trucks (well, maybe a little bit).

George Miller the directors of Mad Max put it best. "Just because we're in an impoverished world, it doesn't mean people stop making beautiful things."