Hi

I am looking towards an on-line graphic design course. My problem is I am
unable to move to a city that has good classes. I did try our local
community college and was highly disappointed. The class was 250.00 and 4
months long. I run my own business and in order to take the class had to
hire an additional person to help out my employees so that I was able to
even take the day time class. What with the cost of that, the class and
supplies, I figure I was looking at a spent amount of over 600.00.

If I had learned even two good things I would have called it even but the
class was a failure. It was a graphic design 1 class. The book was very
basic but lacking any real information. Or in actuality they crammed about
an encyclopedias amount of information in a small text book with no clear
understanding of what they were talking about. Heck the composition chapter
was two pages long. The Bauhaus was a paragraph, a paragraph!
You could get more out of reading one design magazine than the whole 4 month
long class.

Although we had Photoshop on our computers at school, the instructor knew
nothing about the program so it was a constant struggle to 'play' with it.
Some of the other students even looked to me to figure out things as I have
self taught myself a few programs. the instructors method was "pencil"
first, which is fine but we never did anything with it. Although I did learn
how to print on wax paper to play with boxes of text for composition that
was pretty much all I learned, wax paper He was unable to even get
printers to work and constantly let us go early. It was almost a year ago
and I still get mad about it lol

OK long enough, I guess what I am asking, is have any of you taken an online
class and if so what are the pros and cons of doing so. I love design, I so
do not want to take my next life and start over again as there are no sure
fire bets we get two lives and I want to do this now. If I could move to
another city and enroll in real classes I would, but I can not. Being self
taught might be good for playing with but it will never get me a real job in
the design world.
Any suggestions? pleaseeeee

Bren

brenbzzz@msn.com (Bren) wrote:

A repeat of your community college experience?

Not so. If your portfolio and networking skills are up to it, I don't see
why not.

--
Farlo, the Urban Fey Dragon

Farlo schrieb:

See, thats the wonderful scarry thing about Design. You can study your
whole life or do nothing at all. As long as you are good, you will get a
job.
Learning Programms isn't important at all. Having Ideas is the tricky
thing. You will learn the Programms by doing.

Gruß,

Niels

You know what, you guys may be right. How often do we here that, we
are right.
I guess I best get studying. I want to start with Typography I think.
That would be at the beginning, a good as place as any to start.
Thanks for answering.!

Bren


Farlo <hall.j.m@att.net> wrote in message news:<Xns941CCD1F37E22halljmattnet@68.12.19.6>...

Bren schrieb:


I want to start with Typography I think.


Good decicion. Best thing to start with...

Gruß,

Niels

Niels Vollrath <niels_vollrath@gmx.de> wrote:

Yah, I have C# - what will I do with it? Simple file editors that could
have been done as easily in QBasic ...

--
Farlo, the Urban Fey Dragon

Niels Vollrath <niels_vollrath@gmx.de> wrote:
.... and learn design basics like "symmetry", etc etc.
I have a book to remind me when i forget.

--
Farlo, the (hack) Urban Fey Dragon