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First off, let me say that I know some amazing designers who have never done any post secondary education. Also, I think it's really great that so many people are breaking into this industry and that it's growing so much. I don't want to come across as one of those snobby designers who thinks that you have to have gone to school to be worth anything - really I don't...BUT I think we need some sort of certification. You know how you can go to massage therapists or you can go to CERTIFIED massage therapists? Why can't there be something like that for design? I suppose it would be difficult to set standards for certification, especially seeing as design is like an art and can be so subjective (although, I had a teacher who said graphic design is not art...that's a whole 'nother post).
Nothing scares me more than a client saying - "Hey! My nephew does graphic design in MS word and made me a logo." Really? I like to think that I've worked really hard to earn the title "graphic designer" and to share that title with a 16 year old who designs in Paint kind of irks me (again, I mean that in the least snobby way possible). I'm sure there are photographers who feel the same way about people who use little kodak point and shoots and call themselves professional photographers. Thoughts?
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