A short personal monologue by Christina Hall discussing her experience with formal education in graphic and web design. She argues that college taught her general art foundations but failed to provide practical skills needed for professional design work, and expresses skepticism about the value of college for applied creative careers.
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Just because someone got a degree in something does not mean that they know everything about that topic. I will be so fucking honest every single time anyone asks me about like oh what did you do to become a graph like a web designer, graphic designer, brand designer? Did you go to college for this? Etc Etc? I went to college, I majored in graphic design and I had a focus in web design. Everything I learned in college was none of the things I needed to know in order to do what I do right now I'll be like maybe miss unpopular opinion here by saying college is such bullshit. And while I did get a foundational knowled about art in general so I know how to look at things in an artistic creative problem solving way which I would say probably helps me a lot more than I understand strong design, doing like doing design well, brand strategy, understanding how to run a business, web design, web design platforms, design platform. None of that shit was taught to me in college and so nothing gets me more fired up than when someone comments on something I.