Art Institute
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- ComicSans_Rocks
Why does this school even exit? All you need to get excepted in this school in cash, not a kick-ass portfolio or talent. Just about every portfolio that I ever reviewed from this school "across the country" was absolutely horrific. What a waist of time, effort and money. This kids don't have enough talent to get into real design schools like: RISD, Parsons, SCAD, Tyler, etc... Stop diluting the design market and a get a job at Kino's or Wendy's
- emokid0
i know only two people from art institute and they are both on this board. and they both have fantastic work.
- PonyBoy0
that school blows
- zedvox0
WASTE not WAIST.
carry on.- excepted = accepted?
maybe you need primary school to begin with, comic sans.9832892398 - sorry no spell check, stop watching Project RunwayComicSans_Rocks
- you didn't spell it wrong, you used the wrong word you fucking simpleton.skt
- Ha Hadbloc
- excepted = accepted?
- backwords0
HAHA I agree and I went there. But I see it like this... either you have talent or you don't... NO School is going to teach you how to be a good designer... they just show you the tools and how to use them.
- Antonelli0
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
- Livingdead0
I went to the Denver Art Institute for 6 months before I decided it was a waste of money. The teachers were teaching me the same stuff I learned in High School and it was classrooms full of mediocre artists that seemed to be there because they didn't know what else to do when high school was over.
I started freelancing shortly after and has worked out for me ever since.
- i went there too, what year grad?rabbit
- misread - what year did you leave haharabbit
- I graduated in '05, you?Cultr
- I went there too. I was there when they were still teaching manual production boards. LOLspendogg
- i went there also.. worst mistake i ever made.. quit within a year.. has more in common with devry or some truckdriving school.. they actually sat me down and told me that the school was not right for me..loaf
- i went there and grad in like 02!rabbit
- sofakingzero0
vague?
- lol... could be. that amount of hate just isn't normal.Antonelli
- His cousin?ismith
- Antonelli can dish it, but not take it, you Fail again and again...ComicSans_Rocks
- I "can't take it"? huh? where is that coming from? grow up, child. no one is forcing you to go to any school...Antonelli
- Antonelli0
I can't really complain about the cost of attending, I got all the grants possible and don't have a massive amount of money I need to pay back. It's manageable.
- frost2150
haha went there myself and its what you make of it...there were kids that just went there to please their parents that their in school.. starting class of 100 or so kids reduce to 15 for graduation. I didnt have any intro classes in high school so it was a good place to learn on how to use programs. Teachers were shitty so it made you want to learn more on your own. I think thats how i found newstoday.
- skt0
"all you need to get excepted"
i bet your covering letter was awesome.
- BattleAxe0
well Im 27k in the whole for just an Associates , even thought of going back to get Bachelors cause no one, not even some of the Art Institutes themselves would take credits from an AI school, so it's back from scratch to get a B.S. In light, the Associates did help me land some full time gigs, but just know that no one will take AI credits ....
- skt0
- Knuckleberry0
I went there.... www.knuckleberrydesign.com (not quite finished but basically good to go)
-Joshua
- you need to ditch the window resize script, bro.flashbender
- gotta be honest, that resize action on your site pisses me off.The_CCG
- yeah its a battle that I think I need to lose
thanksKnuckleberry
- Antonelli0
Battle, I'm pretty sure the Art Institute is fully accredited now. So they're just as equal as what a University would be.
- morilla0
I know people who went to Pratt and SCAD and they suck ass
- The_CCG0
Hot design topics spawned by this moron's thread:
"exit" vs "exist"
"waist" vs "waste"
"in" vs "is"
"kino's" vs "kinkos"
By the way, where was it that was bless with your attendance?
- fyoucher10
I went there. Got accepted into Parsons but I couldn't afford it. Parents didn't have any money saved for me. I could barely afford AI, so I went there because it was the best thing I could 'somewhat' afford. I couldn't pay monthly tuition a few times and the Art Institute helped me out as much as they could and didn't kick me out. Busted ass BIG TIME working to pay for school while I went there and studied and had classes at night, freelanced after that in the wee hours of the morning. Slept a few hours a day. Lost 50 lbs during school b/c I couldn't afford to eat, and lived in a roach infested apartment too. Very very hard times but I'm doing pretty good now on my own. Paid off that tuition two years after I graduated, live in a new house, and get to work with some of the best agencies and design studios out there. Art Institute is what you make of it, just like all of the other schools. Not as good obviously, but for what you pay, I'd say it was. I thought is was a great school, friendly folks too. I do agree with you on some of the portfolios. But then again, its just like a lot of schools, some people don't study or even try to focus on what they're even going to school for. They just drink and party and don't take it seriously.
- marychain0
School is 90% what you make it.
I know a lot of Scad grads that suck BIG time
I also know a couple from Parsons who have nothing to be that proud of. I also know Ai grads with AMAZING portfolios.Of course I've seen the opposite from all as well....just sayin
- DeathRay0
School is exactly what you make of it. I always wanted to go to Art Center, and had put it on this pedestal when I was younger. I later learned that they turn out far more hacks than they do brilliant designers, just like every other school. It just seems that the kids I know that went to Art Center have the deep pockets and minimal talent. They were also able to afford the REALLY good drugs...