Can we say, overdesigned?
Recently, I had to renew my driver’s license. Having seen a few people with the new format already, I dreaded doing such, and I had hoped that mine would be sort of grandfathered in some clause stating that I would get the old format, since that’s how my first Georgia license was like. Unfortunately, that did not turn out to be the case, and just the other night, I got in the mail, my new state-issued Georgia driver’s license.
As hard as it is for some people to believe, I am a graphic designer, and therefore I do feel that I have a modicum of authority when it comes to judging the way things look. That being said, I really, really dislike the direction the state of Georgia has gone in their drivers’ licenses. It’s like there was a list of security features they wanted to incorporate which is fine and all, since security is very important when it comes to state-issued identification. But when it came to executing the design of the new licenses, they simply fell, face first onto a steaming pile of failure.