Create Your Own Discipline.
Andy has been busy concocting another useful contemplation on how to best prepare yourself for a career in design. I agree that a career path in design requires an inherent lifestyle of observation, not quickly defined in a classroom, and a designer’s professional discipline is definitely solidified through practice and extracurricular experience. In his article, Andy does a great job of outlining the types of things that may not be taught in most educational institutions.
Other posts in "culture"
- Risky Wallpapers
- Designing In, Out of, and Around the Box
- Unbagging the Crap
- Posable Peeps pt. II
- Flex Your Grey Matter: The Posable Persons
- Failure
- Mad Men Destroyed Our Culture
- A Great Time in Sewanee, TN
- If Only Deadlines Were This Entertaining
- Do You Realize?
- One for the Idealists
- Hey Unitards! Why have an office?
- Web Authors Are Losing Their Integrity
- Coffee-thirty
- Calling all Designers…
- Too Many Cooks Spoil the Dish
Other posts in "professionalism"
- How Not to Inquire
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- Under the Table
- Strong Connections
- One for the Idealists
- Is the Pricing Right?
- Radio Frequencies
- The Consummate Web Designer
- …So we’ll know them by their limping
- Hey Unitards! Why have an office?
- Beyond Comp Review: Two designs enter. One leaves.
- Web Authors Are Losing Their Integrity
- Hey Unitards! Creative Brief?
- International Affairs
- Hey Unitards! Foot in the Door
- No Compromise Required
- Do You Know Who You are as a Designer?
- Too Many Cooks Spoil the Dish
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