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- bjladams
recently collaborated with a few companies (who each have an in-house designer) on some projects. these (3) designers have each graduated within the 18 months. one was unaware of what cmyk meant, and kept referring to it as "cim-kee" - one didn't know that there was an actual physical color book that matched her illustrator pantone screen pallet... found out by asking why her cards printed a different shade than what was on her screen... and the third asked what "bleed" meant and if it would show up on the card when it was printed. i understand that there's a lot you learn after graduation... but what is being taught these days and how do you graduate without knowing some of this stuff.
- monospaced0
ffs
- Ask where they graduated from then we will take this seriously .74LEO
- capn_ron0
That is bad. I remember wondering what school taught me once i started working. I felt like i didn't understand any of the day to day terminology. But CMYK? for crying out loud! that should be standard knowledge.
- shade0
yeah most design education is worthless in America.
- at some schools 'graphic design' is the easiest degree to obtainshade
- don't be such a narrowminded dick, I had an amazing design educationmonospaced
- You probably went to a good school. Graphic Design is often a doss subject.orrinward
- akrok0
wah iz fläzh!
- Al_dizzle0
cim-kee... bahahahahahahaha. That's gold.
How do you not laugh directly at the poor kid after that?
- akrok0
they seriously need pocket pal...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product…
- CanHasQBN0
i learned nothing in college because i already knew everything they taught us BEFORE my first day of college. it felt like a huge waste of money. to think that these graduates don't know this stuff AFTER college is unfathomable.
- chuparosa0
Is that because they were focused on web or interactive? Since I started in print, I always refer to type as, say, 12 over 14 and many of the web designers I have worked with don't know what I mean. They ask "do you mean 14 point spacing?" I've encountered other print things that they don't get either but that is understandable if it is not their focus.
- sounds like a basketball score to me buddy.capn_ron
- i do wonder if they understand leading and kerning and word spacing and such. seems so basic, but maybe they don't learn that stuff.capn_ron
- learn that stuff?capn_ron
- i'm unaware of their focus - but even my mother knows what "bleed" refers to in printing. and she has no design education.bjladams
- 12/14 that's it. :-)akrok
- duhsign0
its called job security, thank you america.
- pressplay0
maybe they went to an artsy university like me. You couldn’t graduate there if you didn’t have coffee cup stains all over your work. even better if you had done it all by hand with a ball pen and then add the coffee stains.
- anyone who said the word "grid" was forced to leave immedialtelypressplay
- you really want to admit that the level of your school was so low? i went to artsy uni too and it was top notch education.pr2
- just put it that way: education was great concerning the theoretical side, they just didn‘t bother with practicepressplay
- duhsign0
mmm, I gotta say when I was in school everyone was clueless too.
- aanderton0
I'm currently studying graphic design at uni and have to say I reckon I have learnt far more through working last year and part time this year than through my course itself.
Everything seems to just be here's a brief, go do it... here's feedback. None of the general terminology is taught, especially so for print.
- it seems you want a vocational school rather than uni. uni teaches ideas not stuff you can pick up from textbook.pr2
- I feel it should be a mix of both though, whats the point in teaching all the ideas if a graduate is then going to leave uni not knowing what anyone is talking about.aanderton
- ...uni not knowing what anyone is talking about.aanderton
- yes, but you are still in school and know it... because you care, and no school can teach "care."pr2
- awesome slogan: "university __ - we teach care"bjladams
- The only reason I know it is because I've worked as a junior designer for a year before going though.aanderton
- gramme0
Those bastards!
- nthkl0
It depends on what Master Professor you are paired up with. I was drilled mentally in college and still believe it was far more difficult than my current day job.