Will 'Paint By Numbers' Design Templates Hurt Designers?

Earlier this week saw the launch of Ready-Media, a collection of “just add content” templates for magazines, newspapers and websites “at a fraction of the cost,” says the site. At a fraction of the cost of what? The site doesn’t say, but presumably at a fraction of the cost of having a designer in-house.

Unsurprisingly, the design community had a lot to say about these templates, as evidenced by the comments on one blog post at the SPD.

“You’ve

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