1000% on-point. I realized partway through my sophomore year (c2014) that my Illustration BFA was not about teaching me to Make Art, re: either technical skills OR intellectual depth, but teaching me how to Work. Don't worry about if your work is insightful or clever or even well-crafted-- all of your jobs will be for children's books and advertising anyway-- just crank out as much as possible, distill your body of work into a Personal Brand and put it in front of as many eyes as possible. It seems like skills AND degrees matter significantly less than the ability to ~hustle~. Realizing all that gave me such despair that I never really got over it-- I *sort of* know how to hustle now, but I still don't think I ever learned how to make art.
I went through a decade of Architecture school under the naive assumption that I would be taught something. Anything. I was even a TA for a few studio courses, and the first time I heard my friends who were teaching middle school language and literature (i.e. "English", except in Spanish) complain about their work load it was really eye opening: it turns out that Architecture school professors do very little, which is surprising given how intensely their students are expected to work. It was also key for understanding why "design thinking" had trended so much for a while, as it is basically the laziest way to teach a class. Just give a vague outline and have the students figure it out.
Great piece. Lol an artist designing a drone for the UN is perfect.
More than anything, "creative" has just become shorthand for the especially elite, at least in NYC and other metropolitan circles. To say that you have "creative friends" is basically saying you have well-educated friends with good political opinions and fashionably weird tastes.
Dear Crispin I am trying to order the books you recommend by Menard and Olah, but seems your webstore is not enabled for international orders. Where else can I get these books shipped to the region of South America? Many thanks Arturo
Thank you for this. It was really helpful.
1000% on-point. I realized partway through my sophomore year (c2014) that my Illustration BFA was not about teaching me to Make Art, re: either technical skills OR intellectual depth, but teaching me how to Work. Don't worry about if your work is insightful or clever or even well-crafted-- all of your jobs will be for children's books and advertising anyway-- just crank out as much as possible, distill your body of work into a Personal Brand and put it in front of as many eyes as possible. It seems like skills AND degrees matter significantly less than the ability to ~hustle~. Realizing all that gave me such despair that I never really got over it-- I *sort of* know how to hustle now, but I still don't think I ever learned how to make art.
I went through a decade of Architecture school under the naive assumption that I would be taught something. Anything. I was even a TA for a few studio courses, and the first time I heard my friends who were teaching middle school language and literature (i.e. "English", except in Spanish) complain about their work load it was really eye opening: it turns out that Architecture school professors do very little, which is surprising given how intensely their students are expected to work. It was also key for understanding why "design thinking" had trended so much for a while, as it is basically the laziest way to teach a class. Just give a vague outline and have the students figure it out.
Great piece. Lol an artist designing a drone for the UN is perfect.
More than anything, "creative" has just become shorthand for the especially elite, at least in NYC and other metropolitan circles. To say that you have "creative friends" is basically saying you have well-educated friends with good political opinions and fashionably weird tastes.
Dear Crispin I am trying to order the books you recommend by Menard and Olah, but seems your webstore is not enabled for international orders. Where else can I get these books shipped to the region of South America? Many thanks Arturo
OMG. Cecelia Condit. Amazeballs.