Art Institute
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hahaha... I went there. But I don't really feel like I can definitely say if it was a good school or not... since that was the only place I went to get my degree after high school (difficult to compare it to anything else). I will say this though, they don't have many in-depth discussions or lectures about design theory and effective vs ineffective design. Not many on historical designers either and why their work is significant. Just a lot of assignments/designing and not much learning. This was sort of a let-down.
Also, they allowed too much freedom when assigning projects. Basically, the student comes up with a fictional company and can practically change the company profile midway through the process to fit their design. I recommended to them that this should be changed and that there should be more structure. I don't know if they realize this, but in the real world you don't get to make up your own clients and you obviously don't have 100% control over any given project.
They have a general business course, but not design-specific. That would've been helpful.
Regarding talent, I'd say in a class of about 20 students, there were at least two or three solid designers. So yes, there is quite a bit of crap coming out of there. But a lot of their graduates don't even end up in the design field anyway. If they do, they're doing production work for $25K a year.
Anyway, I think I'm doing pretty well for being a product of the Art Institute. But honestly, I think I would be - regardless of what school I attended. I've loved design since I was a kid. But that's missing from the vast majority of their students, design isn't on their minds 24/7... they don't really get "it" about design. They're disinterested and aren't very passionate about it.
Comic, I'm curious as to why the website in your profile links to the Phoenix Art Institute... do you live in Phoenix?
- yeah, this is long. nobody's gonna read this shit...Antonelli
- 6 paragraphs deep, you did, you FAIL.ComicSans_Rocks