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CAN ART BE TAUGHT? While I don’t count design as an art, more of a solution to a problem I feel it falls under the same kind of thinking. Can design be taught? Now we could discuss the idea behind the way the subline is being toned down in the industry and we are aspiring towards small creative visions, but I feel it’s the way design is taught is a great perspective to look at this issue from. Now from personally experience there is a way I much prefer versus a way I in many ways cannot stand. As a creative I much preferred the way I was taught in college. We were briefed and left to our own devices in relation to how we tackled the task. This in many ways is how studio works at university and is the environment I am most comfortable in, it allows us to ask for help when we want to learn something new or get on ourselves if we feel otherwise. However there’s the other side to design education in which we sit in a studio and learn a process step by step. And while this does help us to learn some technical abilities it is an incredibly slow and stressful process. Although it has in fact enhanced my design work on a technical level and thus would begin to start suggesting that yes in many ways design can in fact be taught. Although it’s the mind-set, the creative ambition, the drive to be original that I feel Elkins is suggesting cannot be taught. It’s this that allows writers to change careers, journalists to rethink their process and make creatives out of people who haven’t directly been taught to be creative.
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