Comments on: Teach Yourself Graphic Design: A Self-Study Course Outline

By: lin

lin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:40:28 +0000

THANKS , THIS article help peoples who want to learn graphic design a lot,
and what you say of method is pure-hearted, thanks

By: awdsgn

awdsgn — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:03:29 +0000

Good article for anyone who wants to learn on his/her own. For those who would rather take courses/earn a degree you’ve given some very bad advice. The first link listed under “Graphic Design Schools” is for a site that lists only proprietary schools, i.e., for-profit commercial enterprises. While some of these may be good, I distrust them as a general group. Throughout the U.S. there are strong graphic design programs in colleges, universities and community colleges. Cost-wise some, especially community colleges, are far less expensive. The quality of instruction will be equivalent or better.

A website like AllArtSchools.com, which you’ve linked to (and there are MANY similar) are self-serving ads for schools that want your cash. Don’t waste your time with them. Here’s a site that will give you a more objective look at schools:

http://www.core77.com/design.edu/

Al Wasco, Cuyahoga Community College

By: zuhaar

zuhaar — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:39:19 +0000

it is a good site.

By: sona

sona — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:24:55 +0000

well it must be in this way all studying in universities is almost self-study they only gives u the headlines and u have 2 do the rest ……. specially in graphic it all depends on finding an idea and another thing they gives u the basics of design so u can design according to knowledgment and its not about using tools and program its about being creative
everybody can use the program bt not everybody can be creative
how to make an idea is the problem ….. and this is what design all about

By: Evil Slayer

Evil Slayer — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:10:17 +0000

Because graphic design is NOT the same as other jobs..in other jobs you need to go to college to be good lawyer or a good surgeon cuz that is the only way to learn it right..but its really different for graphic design..cuz graphic design is not about where did u study or what degree do u have..its about how much talent do u have and how good are u…and i think u know that there is many people who didn’t go to design school can make better works and better designs than the ones who actually did go to graphic design school…im not saying that learning graphic design in school is not important..its very important..and im not saying that there are many people who think they are graphic designers just becuz they know how to mix up some brushes in photoshop..there is and i used to believe that i can be a good graphic designer because i can use photoshop and illustrator but i realized that i still haven’t crossed the starting line yet..but still there is a great graphic designers who didn’t study it in collge…

By: Gary Lister

Gary Lister — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:15:30 +0000

Just what we need, a thousand more self taught “graphic designers” polluting the job market with substandard skills, turning out horribly amateur work. Owning a computer, Photoshop & reading a few tutorials does not make you a designer. It makes you a nuisance because I’m the graphic designer who has to fix your crappy work so it will print correctly. Its a daily part of my Graphic Design job at a printing/publishing company. Fixing crappy design files that people want printed. They usually come from self-taught, tutorial reading ‘designers.’

Do the whole Graphic Design industry a favor — go to school and learn to do it RIGHT. Do you think you can read a few tutorials and be a surgeon or a lawyer? Nope. Why do you think you can with wanting to be a Graphic Designer? Stop it.

By: Down to Earth

Down to Earth — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:40:44 +0000

“idiots?” (Mr. Hodge, is this otherwise civilised thread moderated?) Poster, please learn some manners. Perhaps we should give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that, elevated atop your high horse, the air is thin. Some of the most hopelessly repetetive and cliched work I’ve seen is from designers who hold degrees from celebrated university programmes. Some of the most beautiful work I’ve seen is from top designers who probably can’t name three design schools and were entirely self-taught. Paying all that money cannot create talent. Talent will rise and does not pay heed to university degrees. Not only CAN you build a stellar career without university and self-taught, but you SHOULD. Designers learn more in the first three months on the job than you did in all four years, excuse me, all five years of undergraduate. For the soul who has talent, four years of work experience and US$200,000 saved is infinitely more valuable than any degreee. Hiring managers who are not qualified and, therefore, not confident to evaluate portfolios, understandably rely on credentials to feel secure about their hiring decisions. I never consider whether a designer attended university, let alone which one. True, though, that the talentless can find employment based on credentials. You need only find the right, or rather, the wrong hiring manager. In the hour glass of your career, as the sands vanish beneath your feet, may you find the peace that has so far eluded you.

By: Down to Earth

Down to Earth — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:58:05 +0000

Could you spot me a quarter mil?

By: Loisa

Loisa — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:41:43 +0000

this is extremely amazing, and it’s amazing that ur helping so many people, since some cannot afford to go to college, or don’t have the time

By: Manoj Kumar

Manoj Kumar — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:26:38 +0000

Amazing,

It’s a great effort. Thanks Thanks Thanks