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- mook15
Any Artcentians? I just got accepted to the graphic design program. I'm Waiting to hear back about scholarship since I dont have a spare $100k lying around at the moment. How do you guys handle the bills?
- spendogg0
Nice work Mook - I myself am not alum (taken a few film classes there) but many colabirations and mentors I have been involved with are alum. Top notch creatives all of them - milk it for all its worth.
- Soler0
Roomate went there for graduate. There is mos def some great artists, but wtf is all the fuss about. Good people come from all different places. So do shitty people.
School is what you make it.
done.
- whoohaa0
Like most colleges Art Center are legal robbers
- rocha0
Financial aid and student loans, baby. High-rolling parents can also be of benefit.
- rocha0
Art Center also submits your portfolio for you for a bunch of scholarships every year.
- mook150
Unfortuanately mommy and daddy dont have the bankroll but there's gotta be a good amount of kids there whos parents foot the whole bill. I wouldn't mind that one bit.
- fate0
mook how old are you?
- mook150
21, I graduated HS in 2002 and took some community college classes before I ended up at Art Center at Night (great program) Which led me to Art Center.
- superbaka0
im an alum (prod 2000). its getting bloody expensive tho.. still, that school rewards students (financially or otherwise) based on their portfolio and skills more so than any other school.. especially public schools where overblown social politics come into play. welcome to capitalism, friend!
just remember these words :
sleep is practice for death.
- fresnobob0
All (ok, most of) the work that comes out of Art Center is shitty. Yeah, they have have like 90% job placment or something like that, but that doesnt make up for bad work. Go somewhere else, maybe somewhere really close to your home....
- fate0
I heard they discourage First Year students straight out of HS. Besides I was thinking about doing a Marketing/GD double major in an instate Uni (much cheaper) and teach myself the things they leave out. Is this a good or bad plan?
- mook150
Its true that not a lot of high schoolers go straight to Art Center. I think the average entrance age is like 24. Either way, no matter where you go, if you're not talented and willing to work, you're not gonna be successfull.
- johndiggity0
is it worth getting a masters in the graphic design field? i mean, besides being able to have peopl call me master, and teach? anyone have one and found it to be a huge help? i'm thinking about enrolling in the masters at mica. they just started it last semester.
- superbaka0
actually, the bad work does make up for it when you graduate with a job to pay off your loans and feed yourself. youre not an artist- youre a designer. but the work has no doubt gotten way worse since the mid-90s when it was at its prime.
one thing that surprised me was the other things i learned that weren't about the actual designing per se. i got a better business education than my friends that held marketing degrees.
- mook150
superbaka, did you get any scholarship? How long did it take to pay off any loans?
- myExperiment0
just remember these words :
sleep is practice for death.that is the truth. i have grown to hate sleep with a passion.
mook - i'm in the graphics program right now and it's been great. there are great things you learn from AC that other schools don't focus that much on (like typography for example). it's true that the school doesn't make the designer though - there are people here that are really great and there are those that everyone questions "why are they here?" you have to be self-discliplined and push yourself. i'm lucky if i get 5 hours of sleep a day right now and it's still difficult to find time.
- fresnobob0
jobs and money are no excuse for bad design.
- myExperiment0
you guys say that the grads have a 90% job placement, but their design is really bad. so if it is so terrible why would any company pay good money for it? you can't tell me that they're just ignorant - i don't buy that.
- fresnobob0
Look at the work man, in general, it sucks. There is no substanance to the work. As to why the school has such a reputation, I have no idead. I can't figure it out.
- myExperiment0
so what you're saying is that companies hire grads only based on their diploma. they don't look at the work or decide for themselves whether it's good or not. either that or the company is deceived. if that's the case, why doesn't said company fire those people right away after seeing the work they do for that company? Granted, i haven't been too impressed with the past few grad shows but i want you to tell me why these "bad designers" get hired over everyone else.