Hasta La Ideas

Is it a commercial for SCAD’s ID department, or a commercial for Wacom? We don’t care; anytime you take us inside a school’s industrial design department, we’re all eyes and ears. (Advertisers please take note.) Here we get inside SCAD’s Gulfstream Center for Industrial and Furniture Design, where the current generation of students has been graced with Cintiqs aplenty.

To you SCAD ID kids: As someone who clawed my way through an ID program carrying an ArtBin full of markers, pens, pencils, rulers, French curves and geometric templates, I officially hate you. Do you realize that if we wanted to do a rendering in, say, orange, we had to run out and buy markers in a half-dozen shades of orange? And that when you or the store ran out of orange, you were screwed? Enjoy your digital color pickers, you little…

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