You have a design degree, but can you design?
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- tOki0
Having not gone to university to study design, and watching my girlfriend work through her visual communication degree, I have to say that it seems like the benefit is that it helps to push you.
I think that a good designer with natural talent does not need the degree, but doing so would help them to become better more quickly as it's a pressured environment (in a good way). Compared to one of self discovery/learning which is only as intense as YOU can make it. I also think the competition with other students actually raises the bar and students benefit from seeing their own inadequacies compared to others. The reason I say this is that my girlfriend started university with absolutely no skills or experience, and has struggled subsequently - but she is learning far more quickly than I did of my own devices. The competition and barrage of assignments is the key there. But for the students who already were half decent designers who knew the software, and the degree really just gives them a further platform and quickens their path to a decent job.
For me In hindsight the formal training probably would of been great to underpin my work with theory, but I don't lose sleep over. I think I've done pretty well without it :)
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Nothing's stopping you from reading the history, either.monospaced
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