college speakers

Every so often colleges have guest speakers. They always come in and tell about how successful they are and how great their job is. But the colleges 9 times out of 10 never bring in a success story that came from their school. Im not talking about oh I graduated from this college and a job 6months later. Im talking about I graduated got a job and I am now starting my own business.I would just like to see more of that then the speaker that went to some other random school.

What Design Schools are Lacking or are they?

http://www.davidairey.com/graphic-design-schools/. Reading this article titled what graphic design schools are lacking. Some of the statements were true for example one talks about teachers glamorizing the design field ,but never telling it how it really is. Others although weren't in my opinion. For example the lack of web classes and the importance. Now at my school the entire program was revamped with the emphasis on web classes. In the end the article kind of gives some of the cons or some questions to ask about when thinking about attending a Design school.

Diploma Doesn't help you find a job?

I was looking up articles to write on and I stumbled on this.http://designreviver.com/tips/10-things-they-dont-teach-you-in-design-school/. It is 10 things they don't teach you in design school. When I read that your diploma doesn't really help you get a job I was somewhat pissed. Im wasting over 60G's to go this school to get a degree and it don't matter. After doing more research I found out that, that is a load of crap. Nearly 80% of all companies that hire designers want them to have a Bachelors or they won't even look at your resume. So don't believe everything you read.

Harley Davidson Dying Again

Ive notice that in the past two or so years Harley Davidson has slowly been dying out. I seem to notice less of them on the road and other brands of bikes are starting to push ahead. Its now showing with Harley's latest advertisements they are trying to make a comeback. They have grown as a brand known to project sales towards the older, bar crazed, long haired crowd. Now they are trying to set their sites to a broad audience and break their old image. Although they are trying I think they will fail in the end. And attempt to push hard on the old image. http://wmoon.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/harleys-main-problem-its-base/

Water Light Graffiti

I was looking around on the web and found this cool video. It says its graffiti,but there wasn't really any  tags or pieces. Anyway its a setup of lights that seem to be activated when applied with water or something to that affect. It's a pretty cool concept and anyone can use it as you will see in the video. Found it on flowingdata.com but check http://vimeo.com/47095462# for the vid.

Interesting visual data

Has anybody ever been interested with visual data? I remember last term I had an assignment to make an empirical design.Now it was explained to me that it means to create a design using symbols and pictures and very little text. It took me awhile to even find examples and get a concept ,but i found this site http://flowingdata.com/ . It shows some amazing pieces of work and is a good place to look for any ideas on visual data. This is my finished project. Picture it as a massive visual graph at a sea life aquarium.

Im currently attending an Art School to become a Graphic Designer and with all the financial crap I had to put up with,Im wondering is it worth it? Doing some research its still up in the air. According to http://www.bls.gov/ooh/arts-and-design/graphic-designers.htm the average salary is $43,095 yearly salary. i mean thats decent but is that worth $60,000 of education? I can see in a way it is with all the hands on application and being able to have one on one with an experience Designer/Instructor. But as long as I dont look like this guy being weighed down with debt. 

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