Design Education
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- kelpie0
haha, lot of truth in that fresnobob...
I'm not even sure if I can still give you a genuine evaluation of whether my course was any cop and what I took from it. Too much water has passed under the bridge since then, I've learned far too much on the job to discern and I'm not sure anymore what I taught myself at the time and what I learned from others.
I can say that back then I suspected that it was neither teaching me how to think in a creative way or furnishing me with the correct skills and tools to survive in the real world. Consequently I attended less and less as time went on, completing my assignments my own way at home and dropping them in monthly, untill I eventualy left altogether and spent 1 year on the dole, then a year freelancing as a kind of Open University education before breaking into the industry.
I will also say I still suspect that I am missing vital philosophical tools I see reflected in peoples work, in the thinking which has informed it, and that I still to this day happen across fundamental techniques which I can't belive I was not taught (typographical, conceptual etc) at the time, which immediately improve my solutions to briefs...
This my well simply reflect that life is a continual learing process, however, and not in fact say an awfull lot about the course I (partialy) attended 10 years ago.