Design Education
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- fresnobob0
The problem with a lot of design schools is that they teach you how to make something that looks like graphic design, you know, throw in some type with a photo on a grid and make it look current. Typography and images are not graphic design. The institutions and the educators who teach good graphic design well will tell you that graphic design is not a product, it is the process of solving a problem, which just happens to take the form of graphic design. Unfortunately many designer do not themselves truly understand what graphic design is and therefore cannot teach it. I don't believe it has to do with instructors being out of touch with " the current realities of design," but rather being out of touch with modern thought in general, and by modern I mean, like, after the dark ages. Society doesn't need any more monks copying manuscripts by candlelight, thank you very much.