It’s true. Design students would never think to do anything as unoriginal and predictable as all caps white Helvetica on a black background.

This was a nice read. I did a similar project a few years back, called ‘Leaving the Nest’. http://ryanwynncreative.blogspot.com/2009/02/leaving-nest_12.html Fun.

So since I’ve left the nest, (I’m currently traveling + designing), I’ve been trying to learn the art of designing internationally at the same time. Would you guys have any advice for doing this better? Are there any design sites you’d recommend contacting re: work for clients over seas? OR, haha, would you need any help with any projects?

Keep this site going. It’s inspiring.

sounds interesting…actually just turned down my acceptance to cca unfortunately due to it being extremely expensive and not being old enough to get a student loan.

besides the point, thanks for the link on this one Alex. I think this will be a good read for me right now.

I am planning on reading this soon…these guys are professors at Pratt, I have them for a senior project next semester.

It’s definitely different, but I think art school prepared me pretty well for being in the “Professional” world. Having every element of a design carefully scrutinized by your peers and instructor will definitely hone your instincts and thought process. If I could say one thing, it would be to just experiment and try as many different things as you can now- you don’t always get the chance in the “real world” :-)

that ain’t helvetica, and i must say the fact they didn’t use helvetica instead momentarily makes me cringe.

snooty designer bs aside, i never went to a real design ‘school’. i took a communications course for 4months, which had a design component, and realized right off i should be doing design professionally and that i shouldn’t be paying somebody to teach me how to do it. so i basically learned by having some level of god given ‘talent’, a creative spirit, and by working my way up through an ad agency and later studios. i got my first job designing an ad for hummer that i did all in photoshop, which looking back still looks pretty good, but is conceptually shit. i dunno, it’s hard to say…i think basically you either have it or you don’t. my advice to people that obviously have it is fuck debt. go get a job on the strength of what you naturally have. i’ll leave it at that. btw alex, i think you ‘have it’, so keep on keepin’ on.

seriously…screw that debt business.

I think this is a better article what i read last some days.

as long as you’re getting something out of it that you deem worthy, then it’s pretty hard to bag on education. as with design projects there are many ways to skin a cat when it comes to getting into the field i suppose.

While I was in school I think I was very naive about where I’d end up and what design would ultimately mean in the real world. School is very conceptual and there isn’t a client in terms of, we need this ad to target this demographic and sell this many units at these select stores. So it’s very open and idealistic. It’s only now that I’ve been doing it as a job in corporate America that I’ve come to the realization that it doesn’t gel with me. I’m not interested in designing the next greatest ad campaign or beautiful, but incredibly wasteful, package. I know, it’s something I should’ve thought about before, but priorities change.

I agree that design can be done without the debt of going to school. Some people are amazing without a degree, some are horrible with a degree. Portfolios will speak for themselves at the end of the day.

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well the scariest thing about your post was the fact that you are a student!
Very scary since i already always save some of your displayed work to post on my inspiration photo blog! :-)
Anyways, ill be keen to hear about how you transition when you finish school. Keep up the good work with the blog! Always enjoy reading your posts.
Cheers
Mike

@Matt: Look at the capital R’s.

Anyway, this is a great read. Funny, insightful, and somewhat inspiring. I say somewhat because the book pretty much makes one think that if you don’t have a BFA in Design, you won’t get anywhere.

Looks great, another good one is “How to be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul.” Kind of the same premise but not specifically for graduating students. Still worth the read :)

These guys are funny, I don’t know them personally, but I’ve taken a class with them. They have been kind enough to give the graduating ComD class at Pratt this book as a graduation present. so thats cool, though I already have it. oh well.

p.s. the book is set in arial and Courier. I’ve noticed that a good amount of designers have been using Arial as the anti-helvetica sans serif, a strange step from Akzidenz-Grotesk.

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