Response 11

For our final group of readings, the first one talked about specializations in the design industry. Specialization, in my mind, is so important for a designer trying to get a job, so what I’ve been told. Being able to have a skill in design that brings something new to the table is very important. The author starts out with a scenario that furthers their point. Reading this, I honestly wasn’t that impressed with this article. I guess it could be that I’m a senior already, but most of these concepts was already taught to me. The importance of honing a skill that you love that brings something new to the table was taught to me very early on in my college career.
The next article titled ‘The design school of the future is nothing like the one you went to’ was a little different though. This article, as the name suggest, talks about how the way we teach design is changing, and just from your graduation year, the new upcoming year of people are going to be taught differently. I really think this interesting because in my college career, I have also have seen in first hand how it is different. My freshman year, we where the first to take a new version of drawing 2 which is a core class that all designer must take, but this one was specifically tailored to up incoming graphic design majors. To this day, I feel that class was a fundamental class. It introduced me to many of the programs I used today, and many of the principles I learned from Kelly, my professor, are still engrained into the way I design. However, the classes above me have never taken that class before, so when we arrived to our first graphic design class, those of us who took that class was ahead of others who just started, but to continue. The author basically goes over the academic world of graphic design how new technology and trend coming out every year is going to rapidly change the academic landscape for designer. Again I believe that 100 percent because I have seen it I real time. Around the same time I was taking web design, we where building websites by had, coding nearly each and every line fo code. However, something new from Adobe came it. It is called Adobe Dreamweaver and it has completely change the way I do web design. Dreamweaver allows you to drag and drop shapes, photos, blocks of text, and everything and can make the code for you in real time. You don’t have to refresh and goes if the design is to your liking. It will be done automatically. Like I said, this fundamentally have changed the way I design for the web and this was just one program. Imagine what the future could hold. We could be looking at programs that makes animating on a 2 dimensional plane easier or modeling 3d shapes easier as well. Just like the author states that in order to tech the field, you will have to be aware if what is out there, because it’s going to change how we design.