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- ********
I'm debating whether I should go to an Art school of a Business school.
thoughts?
- ********0
you first
- seed0
I went for art and told myself today I should have went for business after my coworker taught me how to do an income statement properly today. It depends on what you're interested in though
- XB120
Depends on what kind of designer you want to be.
- ETM0
So do you want to design PowerPoints or ad campaigns then?
- ********0
I just don't feel like being a designer my whole life.
- Llyod0
def art school. the real world really values an art degree.
- ********0
lol!
- fooler20
maybe an English of a Business School
- ********0
hah! ahah! I made a typo! Thank you for pointing it out! hahahaha! So funny.
Fuck off.
- ********0
I'm attending an Art Center right now, but I can tell the program isn't right for me. I'm considering transferring to a legit Art School or perhaps pursuing business.
- Pupsipu0
i think the choice is clear, if you're not sure pick something else entirely. Like neuroscience.
- tcmmct0
Yeah if you aren't sure you want to be a designer. You should probably get out now.
- ********0
why would I want to earn $30k and stare at photoshop for the rest of my life? why would anyone?
- rzrffglyr0
"why would I want to earn $30k and stare at photoshop for the rest of my life? why would anyone? "
mranon6 when you put it like that, it does sound bland, but there are so many options within the industry as to where you can progress, and roles you fill that are design-related. Also, it is most likely not going to be just sitting down and staring at photoshop - I wish, actually! You need to hone communication skills to collaborate with the team, departments, and sometimes the client. There is strategic thinking involved and problem solving skills tested, along with stress (to keep your blood pressure high) when deadlines are tight. $30k is also a typical starting figure... sometimes lower, but you have to work your way up, and even that takes some luck and timing if you feel confident with your skills.
Basically, if you're questioning the career at this point, it wouldn't hurt to look at other options you may have... or investigate further into this so you have a better idea what you may be doing - in case it still sounds boring!
And keep in mind in the end, work is work... I mean I love what I do, but I'd go crazy without hobbies or personal work on the side.
- Pupsipu0
fuck that $30K for staring at Photoshop is such a powerful slogan. We should start a union and demand more moneyz, like NOSPEC!
Srsly, fuck that shit, the whole industry will get decimated again by the next wave of technology, the things people do in photoshop now will look like cutting out letters with XActo knives in the 80's.
- itsmitch0
You have to get out of the mindset that your job is staring at photoshop, it's not. If you think it is then you're doing it wrong. Your job is to visually communicate ideas and solve business problems. The business problem could be a client that needs exposure in a segment of the market and your solution could be a rich visual booklet designed and mailed out to that segment. They pay you because you helped them do something right. There is a lot of nuance in design. A wrong typeface could change the opinion somebody has of a product. That's why you pick the best designer, not the cheapest. What I'm trying to get to is this: Photoshop is a tool. Nothing more. You're paid for your brains.
For those that just want to be artsy, please be an artist. We don't have room in the design industry for every person without the balls to try to make it as an artist. It pissed me off more than anything the number of people in my design classes that just didn't get it. They thought they should be a designer because they liked to draw. Nobody told them they should be an illustrator.
- armsbottomer0
pursuing a career in art and/or design, in my opinion, requires an inherent sensibility. going to school for it can only refine it, not create it, if that awareness doesn't already exists. even if you pursue a degree in business, you can always be an artist.
- thebigness0
well earning an MBA makes you just like any other art school kid with a pratt portfolio under his/ her arm when u graduate. u can flounder with both, and the monetary pay off wont be there for five years. be a rad tech and move to saudi arabia for awhile, come back w 50k and start a business. my brother went to a 'small business incubator' in sand diego and is now running a buisness making concrete countertops and furniture. that was his 'business education' after his relatively fruitless 4 years in an architecture program. just sayin, jocking a temp agency for a year w a decent crappy book of weingart/ muller/ 'influenced' spec work will get you a job faster than four years of 12 hour a week typography courses. in business, working at a mattress store until you can sell ' insert funny aphorism here' will get u a job faster too.
- formed0
Do both. No reason you can't get a business degree while getting an art degree (neither are so intense that you can't do both).
You can learn on the job, but schools easier and less painful (this speaking from experience, starting and running my business and co-founding another). I have two degrees in architecture and a minor in business, but I've had to learn as I go on teh business front - that means reading and trial and error. I wish I had my MBA and am still considering getting one.
The big advantage is long term - where and what do you want? Do you want to run your own show? Move up? Business education will facilitate both of those, but not right out of the gate.
I'd do both, if I were you. Everyone should have some business knowledge, we live and breath it everyday, might as well make the best of it.
- lowimpakt0
this is why design is undervalued.