Has the complexity of design problems changed Art Centers approach to education?
Yes. Many of our sponsored and non-sponsored activities are now conducted in a team-based environment. We try to make the team interdisciplinary putting the 2-D designers together with the 3-D designers, graphic designers with industrial designers. We’ve even had projects in which design students partner with MBA students. Because problems are more complex and sophisticated, I believe the day of the auteur designer is gone. There’s still a place for them in the world, but they’re not nearly as prevalent a model as a while ago. Have any companies elected to develop a student’s idea? There are instances of that. We try to help students work out licensing agreements or royalty agreements and so forth with companies that actually do decide to pursue an idea. But it doesn’t happen routinely because it’s just a 14-week project. How many complicated products are designed, engineered and developed in 14 weeks? More often the case is that the company makes an offer of employment. Are young peop
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