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Section 6: Effective Work Habits

This last section again aims to merge art, design, and technology in a way that fuses separate parts of the craft, history/theory, and critique triad. As readers, learners, and educators, we have all experienced how this process can be challenging because it’s easy for the technical part of the learning curve to overshadow the places from which an artist or designer is inspired (historical visual works and various theories or principles). In Section 4, Typography, for instance, learning the nuances of type might have seemed more important than memorizing the shortcuts in the applications used to set type. Different schools deal with this dilemma in different ways: some separate the “skills” classes into smaller ...