7 Things They Don't Teach You In Design School - RANT

[@PauloSilva111]

forgot in the description: (very important, because we are all lazy!!! :D ) 9:30 - 1 - time management 13:52 - 2 - financial stuff 17:35 - 3 - how to get a job 25:24 - 4 - marketing + branding yourself 30:11 - 5 - navigating corporate + agency life 32:51 - 6 - how to find clients 36:26 - 7 - how to build partnerships

[@curioushabit]

Missed the livestream, but very much enjoyed watching this. The same issue with the education is present here in Belgium. You leave school knowing design principles but nothing about the business side (self marketing, getting clients,…). Very frustrating indeed.

[@julieassenberg4663]

I totally agree! None of the"big stuff" that you really need to know is taught in school. I found you because I feel there is a huge need to prepare design students for the real world. I'm working on doing my part too.-Julie Assenberg

[@PhilipVanDusen]

Connect w me on LinkedIn Julie, I’d love to know what you’re doing. Send me a note to remind me of the YT connection.

[@thecreativebusinesshub5914]

I'm sharing this with my son who's 2nd year Communication Design (he's loving motion graphics and animation) He needs to know this too and what better way than to leap frog the years by learning from you!

[@PhilipVanDusen]

Sounds like you're going to have a new employee soon! ...;-)

[@thecreativebusinesshub5914]

@@PhilipVanDusen I do pay him already for bits and pieces. He's much better at InDesign than I am, and he made my little video intro jingle.

[@scottperezfox]

I tell my students "It's a great profession but it's a tough business." The idea of having to reinvent yourself every 5 years is exhausting, to say nothing of reaching age 50 and being shoved out sideways.

[@PhilipVanDusen]

Prescott, you are VERY right. I'm going to do a YT Live about the realities of ageism and aging in the design industry. The stats are pretty tragic - and I feel it's my job to make sure people aren't blind-sided.

[@empaul62]

@@PhilipVanDusen Looking forward to that

[@thecreativebusinesshub5914]

Brand Strategy 101 course was excellent. Do it people. Worth it - buy it before Philip starts charging what it's actually worth!! I've been doing strategy for a while but needed a boost. So, I literally took a client through the strategy in the course as I learnt it live......one day learning, next day leading the client.

[@PhilipVanDusen]

I'm going to start charging what it's worth this time around actually - you lucked out as a founding student!

[@lollipop6482]

How can you get too old for the design world? I thought with more experience and thus more skill you would be even more valuable for companies/clients?

[@corallall]

You can, no doubt!

[@dan_iel_efs]

There's a point when your competence is over evaluated for the company, so they prefer someone younger, cheaper, even if he/she is less skilled, but he/she fits for what they want at that time. It happens all the time all over the professions.

[@PhilipVanDusen]

Designers get "made redundant" or "laid off" or "their positions are eliminated" only to have the position refilled by a younger (less expensive) person a couple months later.

[@PhilipVanDusen]

@@dan_iel_efs True but the design industry is even more stark and pronounced. The fashion industry is similar. Tech, too.

[@dan_iel_efs]

@@PhilipVanDusen I'd say "a couple of minutes later". Maybe you will hold the entrance door as the new guy pass in! I would say that because this kind of dismissal is not a sudden thing, but a longer process for the company. So this means that one that would be dismissed should be aware for alternatives and the next step/move in order to not be without an occupation.

[@chrisgoart]

I don't know if you'll read this, but: I have years and years of self-taught experience and some formal education as well. How do I take generalized experience and apply it specifically, or take industry specific skills and apply them toward another area of graphic design? Say sign industry graphic design skills and applying them to agency or in-house design type positions?

[@PhilipVanDusen]

C- why you say "apply them to another area of design what do you mean exactly? How do you get work in another area of design (either a job or freelance work?)

[@gursharanbhamra6018]

Hi Philip, I am a design enthusiast from NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DESIGN, INDIA.. and I happen to stumble across your channel. Just couldn't agree more to all the things you pin-pointed here, these are exact same queries which we always had and its been 11 years in the design stream and I am still getting in terms with these things they don't teach. Thank you for making such awesome content. I will also follow your fb page now, have a lot to ask! Thank you once again for your wonderful insights! :)

[@PhilipVanDusen]

Thanks for the great comment and I look forward to seeing you in the Facebook group!

[@gursharanbhamra6018]

@@PhilipVanDusen Thank you!! :)

[@milenadimova966]

In my country we have the same issues.

[@PhilipVanDusen]

Thanks for checking out the video Milena!

[@milenadimova966]

And now we have a thousand of very good designers and artist no one know about because they know how to sell the quality work. they are not happy about the incomes about the famost etc. In other way the art and design charlatans are very famost even expensive.

[@mandy8854]

开个youtube自带的中文字幕吧🙈看过中国翻译的视频过来的，讲的很好，但是新出的教程都没翻译版本😭

[@corallall]

the mustache is growing! now be careful with them!)))

[@PhilipVanDusen]

Old cover photo, but yes, you're right I'm recovering from my mustache mishap! LOL.