Art Center College of Design Top Questions

What should every freshman at Art Center College of Design know before they start?

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Draw draw draw! The more you do the better the designer you'll become. To develop an eye for appealing shapes and beautiful forms takes time; the sooner you address this the greater your design aesthetics will become. Define your goals and start working towards them right now. Find out your weaknesses and eliminate them as you go along. Learn to take criticism and ask for advice from those you look up to. Learn to look outside of your own field for inspiration. Read about everything from fashion to product design to photography. Learn to think about what you design; put reasoning behind all your design decisions. Learn to manage your time. There's a time for work and a time for play. And a time for sleep. A tired, unispired designer is not what you want to be. Be pleasant. Be clean. Be productive. Nobody want to work with annoying, messy, useless people. Be you. Originality is not easy to achieve. And you need all of the above before you can strive for it. But once you do, worlds will open that you never knew existed. Life's good by default. Try to keep it that way.