> It strikes me that design is like writing in some sense. Nearly everyone can write. Most can't make a living as a professional writer. And most who make a living as a professional journalistic writer couldn't make a living as a professional novelist. Most novelists would starve as advertising copywriters. . . Some people get pissed because they went to school for six years to learn to be writers and a high school dropout says "I'm a writer" but I suspect that the solution isn't to pass a law making it a felony for an unlicensed writer to be caught in possession of Microsoft Word.
nice analogy Gunnar. Many design students/graduates don't end up in professional design practice either. I often suggest to my students that being a designer does not make one 'special' in a community of people (which they hate of course), but someone with professional know-how that can contribute in particular ways to collective endeavours.
cheers, teena
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