To be a designer of product, media or marketing materials, In today’s market it is more important than ever to be wide-eyed and open to discovering, experiencing and absorbing everything. This information can be stored in our creative brain and then re-sorted and put together to give back the solutions, new inventions, new or improved technology.
Vivian Wang, a fellow Carnegie Mellon Art Alumni (Art 2011) was just listed as one of Business Insiders 2013, 75 Best of Designers of Technology. She credits her diverse learning experiences the problem solving approach they teach at Carnegie Mellon as the reason she is creatively successful today. It is interesting to note that 5 other Carnegie Mellon Arts Graduates were listed among the 75 on the list this year!
I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1986. Computer graphics software was in it’s infancy and basic programming was scary for an art student. Even at that time, however, the professors and teaching methods were the same as they are today — exposing students to many experiences, encouraging students to try new stuff, things that scared them a little or maybe a lot, putting different disciplines together to form ideas and even make THINGS, there was guided self discovery of what interested the individual student -- even if it meant diverting from "the Major", and they taught students to ask a lot of questions, as well as, defend their work. I, like Vivian, would like to thank Carnegie Mellon for encouraging me to be a divergent thinker, a questioner, and someone who can speak meaningful about the problems I solve..
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