Comments on: What are they teaching us? http://digitallyrefreshing.com/2005/11/14/what-are-they-teaching-us/ Digitally Refreshing Commentary, Photography and Web Design Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:26:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Administrator http://digitallyrefreshing.com/2005/11/14/what-are-they-teaching-us/#comment-15 Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:47:29 +0000 http://digitallyrefreshing.com/2005/11/14/what-are-they-teaching-us/#comment-15 You make a good point, and your right of course. Design schools are out to teach design. Maybe we should start a coding school :-) You make a good point, and your right of course. Design schools are out to teach design. Maybe we should start a coding school :-)

]]> by: Martin http://digitallyrefreshing.com/2005/11/14/what-are-they-teaching-us/#comment-14 Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:35:21 +0000 http://digitallyrefreshing.com/2005/11/14/what-are-they-teaching-us/#comment-14 Unfortunately, I think Vega suffers (or not, depending on whether you think standards are important) from designamitus. The school is mainly oriented towards brand development and traditional "advertising" goals - an industry which is heavily biased towards gaining impact from the visuals and "graphic design" aspects of web design, without much regard for the technical stuff. They're advertisers, if you want to see it that way... Take the Construction New Media Awards as an example, 99% of the award winners are badly coded flash entries. Entries that look good though, which is their main goal... I agree with you though, I don't think brand/advertising schools (or most agencies for that matter) get the web at all, not even close. It's all about the Loeries, baby! Unfortunately, I think Vega suffers (or not, depending on whether you think standards are important) from designamitus. The school is mainly oriented towards brand development and traditional “advertising” goals - an industry which is heavily biased towards gaining impact from the visuals and “graphic design” aspects of web design, without much regard for the technical stuff. They’re advertisers, if you want to see it that way… Take the Construction New Media Awards as an example, 99% of the award winners are badly coded flash entries. Entries that look good though, which is their main goal…

I agree with you though, I don’t think brand/advertising schools (or most agencies for that matter) get the web at all, not even close. It’s all about the Loeries, baby!

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