Ace article. I can't hope to comment on design education having graduated over 15 years ago now (and being out of the country for about 9 years of that) but I do often ponder, from an industry perspective, why Australian Graphic Designers have such a hard time selling the benefits of good graphic design to clients. If there was a way for students and the industries they hope to serve to be educated in the benefits of good graphic design at the same time that would be massively beneficial.
Courses that assume students arrive with a certain amount of knowledge and then enable them to go out and work on real live projects as soon as possible can only help. I've noticed this happens in the UK quite often. A lot of students arrive fully equipped and use being part of an institution as back up to being able to put their pre-existing ideas into action rather being molly coddled (that's an odd term isn't it? anyhow...) and told the 'correct way' to go about things.
bojkowski
Joined: 06.01.10
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Posted: 12.01.2010 @ 9.01 PM
Hi Jen
Ace article. I can't hope to comment on design education having graduated over 15 years ago now (and being out of the country for about 9 years of that) but I do often ponder, from an industry perspective, why Australian Graphic Designers have such a hard time selling the benefits of good graphic design to clients. If there was a way for students and the industries they hope to serve to be educated in the benefits of good graphic design at the same time that would be massively beneficial.
Courses that assume students arrive with a certain amount of knowledge and then enable them to go out and work on real live projects as soon as possible can only help. I've noticed this happens in the UK quite often. A lot of students arrive fully equipped and use being part of an institution as back up to being able to put their pre-existing ideas into action rather being molly coddled (that's an odd term isn't it? anyhow...) and told the 'correct way' to go about things.
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