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I owe you at least one “college is going great” post. So here it is. College is going great. No, really. I’ve been mostly happy there for an entire week now and, of course, can’t imagine what the problem was before. Stupid emotions.
In LISPA on 24 November 2007. 1 comment. Permalink
- Links for Saturday 24 November 2007
- Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka - Celebrating ORG's Second Birthday
- The Open Rights Group is doing fantastic things for the UK online world. I joined when they started and if you join now the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust will match your contribution. Go!
- Graphpaper.com - What I Learned in Art School (Is it Design Thinking?)
- A list of skills learned in art school that aren't hands-on crafting skills. These are the best things about such places I think (via Purse Lip Square Jaw via Rodcorp)
- A List Apart: Articles: Understanding Web Design
- Zeldman on how too few people understand what web design is. Hence dumb flashy sites winning web design awards. (via Infovore)
- Adam Curtis: The TV elite has lost the plot | The Register
- 'Power of Nightmares' etc creator on the BBC and other media being scared, the faults of blogs, user-generated content. "It's a time of great technical invention but it's a time of [artistic] stagnation."
- Ben Goldacre: Now for ID cards - and the biometric blues | Comment is free | The Guardian
- Can we all club together and buy Ben Goldacre an award for services to common sense or something? He's been on fire this year.
- Journal.nonesuch.com: Nonesuch to Release Music from Five Years of "The Wire"
- Sounds good… and only six weeks to go until the fifth season begins.
- Indiepop Radio
- Fantastic. "Indie songs with proper tunes and proper lyrics: Indiepop, Sarah Records, Brit-Pop, Shoegaze, Twee…" Streaming radio and a podcast.
- VectorMagic
- Nice, free web-based bitmap to vector graphic convertor. (via Ted Mills)
- Graphpaper.com - What I Learned in Art School (Is it Design Thinking?)
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A comment posted on another site on 24 November 2007. Permalink
Great list Christopher. I've been thinking recently that concentrating on the kind of skills in your list is much more useful than teaching hands-on crafting skills at art school. It's different for everybody of course, but I bet a sizeable proportion of graduates end up in work in which they don't use the skills they learned at college. So why not have college be a place where students acquire a broad base of skills like those you list and a variety of others, leaving more of the hand-son skills to be learned on the job during the rest of their lives?
I'm not 100% convinced of this yet and, as I say, it's certainly not right for everyone, but I think it changes slightly how we think of the purpose of art schools.