Dear Elson and others!
I have the same opinion about "talent". Ether you have talent or not.
But the talent without hard work will soon be uninteresting. The talent
is a good start but it is not enough!
Barbra Streisand once said when it comes to music: "Good technique
without feelings is always bad, feelings without technique is always
good". Think about Louis Armstrong's singing, no voice but wonderful
song.
What I mean is that "talent" always has to be educated in a
professional manner. That does not mean that the "non talent" is a
loser!
I have met students that was very talent but did not use this gift and
ended up as losers. I have also met student that was not very talent
but with hard work and enthusiasm ended up being very good designers.
This is a very interesting subject and of course important.
Some questions:
What is a talent!?
Who are going to judge! Must he/she also be a talent?
We know that this problems also exist when judging intelligence.
In-spite of design teachers, talent or not, there are a lot of good
designers educated in the design schools.
The bad designers we have to live with. On the other hand what is bad!
Happy New Year
Dag
28 dec 2004 kl. 02.27 skrev SZETO, Sing Ying Elson:
> Dear all,
> Can anyone elaborate on "talent" and "intuition" in relation to design
> education? Can talent and intuition be educated?
> Cheers,
> Elson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gunnar Swanson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 11:45 PM
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> Subject: talent
>
> On Dec 27, 2004, at 6:43 AM, Paul Tosh, M.F.A. wrote:
>> Graphic designer Paul Rand said " The fundamental
>> skill of a designer is talent. Talent is a rare commodity. It's all
>> intuition.
>> And you can't each intuition."
>
> If we assume this to be true, what should we do with that information?
> Can one determine talent and intuition before charging untalented and
> unintuitive people tens of thousands of dollars and wasting several
> years of their lives?
>
> If it is, indeed, all intuition, what does that mean for the role of
> design education?
>
> Gunnar
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