Greetings all you Pineapple people!
This morning I was cruising alon the internet looking up fun or interesting design related nonsense. I found core77’s “Words of Advice for Design Students.” It was a very informative and well thought out piece. After reading, I thought, “hey… this is worth repeating.” However, I thought for the sake of our time and yours, I’d make it a quick read. the Core article is roughly 1000 words. I also felt like the article was a smidgen too sugar coated for my taste.
Pineapple Mag’s - Words of Advice for Design Students! (unfiltered)
- Challenge yourself in and out of school.
- Don’t be a dummy, research everything… it’s you you’re investing in.
- School is expensive - get everything out of your visit that you can. (photo copier, computers, internet, phones, wall space, library, teachers, galleries, questions, friendships)
- If your teacher sucks - get a new one, don’t waste time battling. Just make sure it’s the teacher that sucks and not your attitude.
- Learn to BS since it represents 50% of your future as a designer.
- You don’t go to school to become a designer. You go to school to become a better one.
- Get outside your school and into the real world (even if it’s for a visit) as often as you can.
- This next one is important. After graduating… go get a job outside of school. Sticking around after you graduate just because they “give you an easy job” is lame. All you are doing is delaying your future (unless you want to work at a school?)
- Don’t work alone - you’re likely going to become arrogant, opinionated, and disconnected from the importance of comprimise otherwise.
- Don’t kid yourself… take any job you possibly can. Nothing is “bad” experience when technically, you don’t have ANY experience to speak of. In this financial climate, design jobs are going to be FAR and FEW between as is.
So that’s it in just under 325 words! Keep this list in mind when you get to tihnking about what you’re doing, where you’re going, and how you’re going to get there. Thanks for reading and please feel free to comment if we’ve gotten something wrong or forgot something all together.
xo - PM