MIke, I don't think anyone can give you advice other than to say this is the opinion I have of this school vs. that school and there will always be a grad who thinks their school is better than everyone else's, or conversely who had an individually bad experience and thus won't like their school. Its a crap shoot.
Being a PhD, I think you know this, but for our listeners, I'll say it out loud. Grad school no matter the degree flies on your ability to create good relationships with your professors. You really want to go some place where the professors (at least 1 or 2) are people you want to work with and learn from. Now this goes into the piece that you may not have thought about. 2 parts: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" & "What are your philosophies? design, art, production, etc.?" I would say that you need to start communicating with students & professors from the schools that you feel you can afford to go to or already have some interest in. They are all reputable design educations. I would tend toward Malmo & Umea if I couldn't go to CIID. What is great about CIID is that it is a 1-yr experience. Someone w/ your deep experience might really just need that. I think your bigger question of whether or not such an education would be valuable is hard to answer. It requires the "what do you want to be when you grow up?" question to be answered. How important is "design" to what you want to do? Can you be creative, productive with what you have now? Can you gain "studio" experience in other ways? (I did this outside of education myself by taking a job in an organization that worked inside the studio.) That's my answer, and I'm stickin' w/ it. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42138 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
