Competitive Edge: "Designers are Big Shots These Days"

Kay Hymowitz's fascinating article in the City Journal, 
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Businesswoman, describes the rising status of design in modern business:

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Visual artists are living in a career candy store filled with cool jobs that didn’t exist when their parents were their age; some, indeed, were the stuff of futurist fantasy even ten years ago. There are graphic, industrial, set, and Web designers; costume, dress, shoe, handbag, furniture, wallpaper, tile, and toy designers; strategic, font, user-interface, video-game, and infographic designers. There are creative and art directors, fashion and food stylists, production and lighting artists, and animators. There are even—I kid you not—experiential designers, lifestyle designers, design anthropologists, and design psychologists.

We often focus on measurable Quark or Powerpoint or PhotoShop learning in classrooms, but an overall "sense of design" is more elementary and will last longer than any particular graphic skill.

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