Graphic Designer burnout is killing careers. And the industry is lying about why!

Designers are crying burnout, quitting jobs, questioning their talent, and walking away from design entirely. Not because they hate graphic design. But because they’ve been told the wrong story about  designer burnout and they keep treating the wrong problem.

Here’s the part most Graphic Designers don’t realize: burnout advice trains you to blame yourself instead of the industry. It convinces designers they’re lazy. Weak. Undisciplined. Bad at boundaries. So they journal. Meditate. Take breaks. Then they walk right back into the same broken systems that burned them out in the first place.

This week, in this solo episode of The Angry Designer Podcast, Massimo breaks down why Graphic Designer burnout is being completely misdiagnosed and why most burnout advice actually makes things worse. This is not about motivation. It is not about passion. And it is definitely not about grinding harder. It is about identifying the real causes of design burnout and calling out the industry problems nobody wants to touch.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
– Why graphic designer burnout is not a personal failure and never was
– The three types of burnout designers confuse and why that confusion keeps them stuck
– How the design industry protects broken systems by pushing useless burnout advice

This episode is not here to make you feel better. It is here to make you see clearer. Because if you keep calling this graphic designer burnout without questioning the industry behind it, you will either resent design or leave it entirely. And neither one is necessary.