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graduation season is upon us.
i once had a design student say to me "i have taken illustrator, photoshop, dreamweaver, and all the others. when i finish your class i'll have it made, and i'll get a job."
this was the most depressing thing a student has ever said to me. he viewed his education as a checklist of software packages, and each class being independent of others.
if that is all he wanted, it would have been much cheaper and faster to sit at home and go through the tutorials. software and hardware are tools, not solutions.
learn design, learn color theory, learn typography, learn photography, learn illustration, learn how the eye functions with the brain, blah, blah, blah. combine all of these things, make them work together. then you have it made.
when i teach digital imaging, i tell the students if they refer to the class as "the photoshop class" they flunk. ideally the class teaches the fundamentals of design that can then be applied to any software (or non digital media).
i flunked him.
Posted by griff at May 28, 2002 11:41 AM