Why do you design?
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1. What motivated you to go to design school or become a designer?
- i had a natural talent at art, and enjoyed it the most out of all my school courses, and my parents encouraged me to go forward with that since i enjoyed it so much...and when i compared 'fine arts' to commercial design and advertising, it seemed i could make a better living from going into design and advertising..2. What did you expect out of your design education before you entered?
- i expected to learn the basic fundamentals of design, theory, and practical experience....
3. What does design mean to you today? Why do you think it's significant in the world?
- as has been mentioned before, every consumer item, and basically every facet of our lives is designed by somebody somewhere... that's significant in and of itself, but i think it speaks to a wider acknowledgement of there being a 'goodness' about it....being a designer is about having the special job of bringing order out of chaos, and adding a little beauty into the world...
4. If you can change any aspect of your education, what could your institution provide that would help you today?
- the big one would have been a better co-op program, (helping senior year students get placed into actual design shops and studios for internships etc, also, better graduate programs and most importantly some kind of career counseling and job placement.. took me a full year of beating around the streets til i got my first design job...