As part of my essay is centred around the journey from education to industry within graphic design I felt it was appropriate to generate some feedback subject to this area by asking graphic design students about their course and how they feel it prepares them for the graphic design industry. From the responses I will then be able to compare them with my other research around this subject such as the interviews from the boo 'I used to be a design student' and I will be able to reach a conclusion based upon my findings.
The information I have gained from this questionnaire has confirmed things for me which means I will be able to now propose a statement which is backed up by a variance of sources.
Suzanne Moore. 2014. Graphic design:
student to industry. Questionaire by Suzanne Moore [Internet]
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TDK7QW7, 20 jan 2014.
1.
What are your opinions on you graphic deign course? In what ways do you feel it
prepares you for industry?
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My graphic design course is structured to make people industry ready.
This is great but then there is the argument of people just churning out
soulless work, it would be great if we worked on our ideas and experiments
more. I worry for the industry to become a world full of mac monkeys.
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I like how on my course we aren't pigeon holed into doing a certain
style of work. It is varied which makes it an exciting and diverse learning
environment to be in which gives us lots of opportunity to work with our peers.
I think that collaboration is a big part of working on a graphic design course
and an important skill that is invaluable when we are actually working in
industry. Working creatively with other people is a necessary part of life in
the outside world, you have to learn to listen to other peoples ideas and then
merge these to create bigger and better ideas.
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I think a graphic design course at university level provides students
with a fundamental understanding of graphic design principles. It also offers
students a chance to develop innovative ideas as well as work collaboratively
with a range of student across different creative disciplines however I don't
think students are fully equipped with the skills they need until they enter
the work place this is where they really get to apply to skills they've learn't
throughout university and apply them to real world brief within a professional
working environment
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Development through practice. Thinking conceptually, and through
exhaustion, and also by writing the briefs ourselves.
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I feel we are taught the fundamentals of graphic design during the first
and second year which prepares us for third year and then industry. We are
given freedom to work on briefs in the sense that we can choose the subject
write the brief etc but there are allows constraints like time or certain
constraints on a brief. This mimics the way it will be in industry as we will
be working for a client where there will be an arranged deadline. Although the
constraints of uni do sometimes stunt the potencial(sic) of a project which is
a shame at times but understandable when you look at the bigger picture.
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I feel that the amount of briefs that we are given, and the emphasis on
design for specific target audiences helps us to prepare for the industry by
forcing us to think commercially as opposed to simply designing for ourselves.
It also promotes organization(sic) and project management skills, as well as
providing us with information on production as well as design. Unfortunately at
times the pressure to meet deadlines has more importance placed on it than the
ability to produce original, creative outcomes. The workload can also limit the
creative potential of a brief, which can be frustrating when you have a strong
concept but only a limited amount of time and resources to realize(sic) it.
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