June 5, 2008 at 11:18 am · Filed under Designers World, Education Info
Numerous types of graphic design courses are available though out the world. To fit any interest that you may have you are offered a range that includes:
Certificate programs
Associate degree programs
Bachelor’s degree programs
Graduate programs
Just like most other things, you will notice good and bad with each program. So that you can see the most benefit, however you should choose the program that best suits your own needs. If you read further you will see a comparison of the more popular associate and bachelor degrees so that you can better determine which is the program that will serve your demands.
Professional status
First of all, you can expect to receive less respect if you choose to obtain an associate degree as opposed to another graduate that has earned a bachelor. Although it is wrong and greatly unfair, some employers are prone to stereotypes and they think the smartest people will complete four-year degree programs, and if you didn’t, you aren’t as good. You may know that this is absolutely untrue, but there isn’t much to do about it. You will need to be prepared and realize that having only an associate’s degree often makes it hard to win jobs over someone with a bachelor’s. If the other factors are roughly comparable, then education is the key differentiating factor.
Career Path
You will enter the “real world” much sooner than a student working toward their bachelor’s degree if you choose to earn an associate degree. Most of the time, holders of associates are equally qualified to work the same positions of those that hold bachelors.
Cost
The associate degree costs are significantly lower than for a bachelor’s degree. But an associate degree program costs less, as the duration of the program is less.
By joining a bachelor’s degree program or an associate degree program in graphic design, you are entering a challenging profession that will become evident as new technologies become available.
April 16, 2008 at 3:16 pm · Filed under Business, Designers World, Your Commerce
In the last half of the 19th century, several inventions changing how the office (oficina) works were preparing the way for subsequent necessary innovations in wood office furniture (muebles de oficina) design.
As Wood & Wood Products first ancestor was appearing, the telephone, which had been invented in 1876, and the typewriter, developed in 1868 by Remington, were coming into general use in growing offices. Wood office furniture design responded to these inventions and the paper they produced, as it did later to the advent of computers in wide use in the early 1950s and copiers in the late 1950s.
Somebody had to handle the paper work. The number of clerks in American offices increased tenfold between 1890 and 1920 as industrial production expanded. Fortunately for all those workers, the use of electric lights became widespread in the early 1900s.
Office employees needed a desk, a chair (silla o sillon para oficina), and perhaps a file and/or a bookcase. All of this furniture was wood, until the 1930s, when metal filing cabinets began to replace the old wooden ones. There was rarely any thought given to laying out offices in a sensible manner. The furniture was just set in place, often in rows in a “bull pen,” just like in classrooms. Sometimes executive and supervisory private offices were constructed along one wall or perhaps around the whole perimeter. As employees were added, more furniture was brought into the existing space until space ran out. The office workers did not expect, nor were they given, any privacy.
Gradually, during the 1930s, the companies that were producing metal filing cabinets also began to make metal desks, especially for use in the “bull pen,” where the fact that these desks were generally less expensive than wood ones was important. Most of the items were sold by stationery and office equipment dealers, to whom a case of paper and a secretarial chair had about equal importance. The growth of the metal office furniture business was stopped short by World War II, when all steel was required by the military. But as the war ended, the steel office furniture manufacturers were ready to go with an aggressive marketing program. Wood manufacturers fought back by forming the Wood Office Furniture Institute, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. WOFI’s equally aggressive advertising campaign, as well as an emphasis on strategic planning of executive and general offices, helped to combat the takeover of steel.
Gradually, however, as wood manufacturers began to use steel parts, and steel manufacturers added wood tops, it became clear that office furniture was office furniture. The day of two separate industries was gone. In 1963 WOFI became the short-lived OFMI, the Office Furniture Manufacturers Institute. Ten years later, BIFMA, the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association, was started
