Did you study your profession in school?
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- qbner
What you do for a living now.... did you go to school for it? Or is it a second career or something you fell into?
College, art school, technical school?
- GeorgesII0
No :(
now it sucks because I would kill to have that piece of paper that says that I can do what I've been doing since I finished high school...
- Expensive paper.qbner
- <yupmoldero
- School not free in Italy? Hit up hyper island in Sweden for a couple semesters. Ur still young.bklyndroobeki
- Not sure if you'd have a visa headache tho. Free school.bklyndroobeki
- sorry didn't grow up in italyGeorgesII
- Peter0
I have two pieces of papers that say I can do what I did before I got them.
One free paper written in Swedish,
one very, very expensive paper in Japanese.
- ApeRobot0
3D artist, self taught.
Started as a generalist 15 years ago.
Specialized in lighting since 8 years.3D school was impossible for me to pay.
- ABLESSINGDESIGN0
Yup BA Graphic Design, specialised in Web. Now a Web Designer
- Miguex0
I went to college for architecture, then switched to graphic design and in the end, everything I'm doing now I learned on my own
- OBBTKN0
2 years studying for drafstman in Tech. School, then switched to Graphic Design Grad, for 5 years more (finished in 1997)...
Learned all my drawing and illustration skills by my own, doing tons of comics and illus, you know, i was a shy, introvert guy ;)
- arne0
1 of 3 years graphic design college. bailed out after 1st year because i heard of computers for designers but there were non in that school. good decision although this year was good too - learned a lot of ancient techniques which are still software imitated now. 25 years of work followed, blala, got some papers later on the fly - never of any value to me.
- formed0
7 years of architecture school (4 under, 3 grad), left the profession 6 months after school. It did teach me 3D, graphics and I learned web while is school, which is what my company does.
So no, I am not doing what I went to school for (nor is most of my graduating class).
- detritus0
Nope, I've had three career branches so far, none of which I had any academic grounding in.
- I'm a miserable failure though. Perhaps should've done something useful, academically.detritus
- Nairn, i like how you respond inmediatelly to your posts with a note as you have posted it ;POBBTKN
- :)
The notes are a quick one-two for the duality within all the shit I spout here.detritus - hahaahah... don't change sirOBBTKN
- moldero0
I was the only self taught dude in my agency and ironically ended up being the guy teaching the "educated dudes" in my agency how to do shit. It would have been nice to go to art or film school to learn things faster instead of my route of saying goodbye to the great outdoors while locking my self away in a dungeon until i learned what I needed to, but realistically, if I went to art of film school my focus would most likely have been banging chicks.
- bklyndroobeki0
Yes :(
- monospaced0
Yup.
- set0
I was very tempted to go to college... basically to sleep with as many girls as possible and sit around smoking weed and eating beans on toast. By that time I was pretty well versed in what I was doing though so academically it didn't really make sense.
I do slightly regret not living the student life for a while, though.
- benfal990
yes. learned all the technical stuff (all the softwares) in 1998-1999 in a intensive 1 year design school, it was mainly technic, no creative or artistic lessons.
Later in 2005, i decided to fullfill a dream i had of having a bachelor drgree in graphic design from an University. So, at 25 y-o I got back to school and took evening classes... took me 7 years to complete my degree. Finally got it in 2013.
- i still can't believe I finished that degree. Seven years!benfal99
- design school - no creative... wow - sounds like fun.fadein11
- yeah, school's name was 'International Academy of Design' but mainly technical stuff.benfal99
- but i t was a necessary step. I learned all the softwares.. 'shop, audio, video, web, etc.benfal99
- at least you persevered and finished itGeorgesII
- at least you perverted then finished off.detritus
- yepbenfal99
- ukit20
As set alluded to, college is well worth it for the sex and drugs...that's the main thing I remember anyway :)
Actually I did get a degree in "interactive design" and even spent a couple semesters learning Actionscript. Now a decade later, Actionscript is pretty much useless but it was a useful introduction to programming in general. But 90% of the stuff I do now I either learned through work or taught myself.
- monospaced0
I went to regular undergrad after high school and got the whole sex/drugs and dorm experiences, and it was great. But when I went to design school a couple of years later, it was completely the opposite. At that point I was there to learn about design, and wrapped up as fast as possible, putting in so much work and giving up my social life. Totally different experiences, college and design school.
- software wasn't even discussed in design school, it was all principles and practicemonospaced
- Yeah went to design school as well. It's pretty intense. At the same time, I think you can learn just as much on your own if you are truly dedicatedukit2
- are truly dedicatedukit2
- My design teachers were all industry pros, so I definitely couldn't have learned on my own.monospaced
- I learned the most in my first job.monospaced
- martinadolfsson0
I worked as an assistant for three years to an Advertising photographer in Oslo, Norway as a 18 year old still in High School this was extremely valuable. I'm surprised there isn't more of this type of apprenticeship in the Art/Design world. It's something that benefits students, mentors and society in general.
