Good observatio - yes it has become highly vocational
On 4/15/10 8:23 AM, "Frances Kelly" <[email protected]> wrote: My observation from academic calendars is that in earlier design training there seems to have been more emphasis placed on theoretical thinking about design than on the actual practice of doing design. The current design curricula today seems more craft and skill oriented, albeit technical and digital, in financial satisfaction mainly of business and commerce. ---FCK -----Original Message----- From: Saul Ostrow [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 6:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: What if we took this view These two statements seem out of sync - unless you understand aesthetic philosophies, information theories and communication models, semiotic Systems, thinking techniques and perceptual theses to crafts and skills rather than knowledge based practices. On 4/15/10 5:31 AM, "Frances Kelly" <[email protected]> wrote: Frances to Saul and others... Between 1960 and 1980 in Canada and California for example the visual "design" curricula in graphic planning and land planning for example placed their main emphasis on topics like aesthetic philosophies and information theories and communication models and semiotic systems and thinking techniques and perceptual theses. Frances partly wrote... design is drifting away from logic and theory but more toward craft and skill." --
