From the course: Insights on Illustrative Design

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How design education has changed

How design education has changed

When I went to school, it was just purely focused on visual communications. And everything related to it, and there, there was, there wasn't any courses that was just regular kind of academia like like English class, or, or, or writing class, or, or something like that. And I, I kind of wish it they would have had that because you know, those are skills sets that I developed and improved upon once I started working. But nobody really taught me how those plug in to the creative arts. And so I think they're doing some of those things a lot better now. But in the same respect, I think they've lost a lot too from when I went to school. Where they really reinforced drawing when I went to school. And now that's kind of been depreciated and then knowledge of the, the tools and software has been elevated. And so I think it, it's kind of created a strange dynamic where, you know, 20 years ago there was people that never even considered going into this field. Because there is this level of…

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