Reviews for Design School Confidential: Extraordinary Class Projects From the International Design Schools, Colleges, and Institutes

The average rating for Design School Confidential: Extraordinary Class Projects From the International Design Schools, Colleges, and Institutes based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-03-07 00:00:00 Curtis Means This was okay, but it was not one of the better Art books I've read. The discussions of student work lacked much depth, and I'm not sure that I learned anything from the book.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-06-30 00:00:00 Jerry Dixon TODO full review: +++ Overall, inspiring: we should do this kind of books for more domains. +++ Excellent idea: we keep seeing finished designs, or at best a selection of proven sketches that we know led to success, but wouldn't it be interesting to see the basic elements of teaching and the first exploratory steps of students? I know it is for me, a most amateur designer. ++ Good approach: the authors select 53 projects from around the world. Each project is an assignment given by a design school. This book summarizes the project and a small selection of its results, presumably across multiple cohorts of students. --- Only 50-ish projects. The selection is too narrow and too shallow, and in merely 50-ish samples it does not do justice to the notion of covering the world's heritage of projects in design schools. + I kinda liked the results. Not the best projects in the world, but already nice and demonstrating what students can do. ? I would have liked to see: the book expanded to include enough samples (perhaps 1,000 pages?); explain the cultural influence of each location; each assignment described in more detail, say double the space, including place in the curriculum and evolution over the years; each project given more space for analysis and also for assessment by the teacher (with both positives and negatives); a notion of evolution of topics in each design school covered in this work.