A Complete Graphic Design Education for $179
Posted on December 21, 2010 in Asides
(last edited on April 29, 2014 at 1:25 am)
(last edited on April 29, 2014 at 1:25 am)
I’m a big fan of Before and After Magazine, and I’m very tempted to pick up their Master Collection of All Articles for $179. It is some of the clearest, most immediately usable graphic educational material I’ve even seen. Free of bombast and heavy on illuminating principles.
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Looks great but not at $2.25 per ARTICLE!
Brian: Wow…I forget that the mentality on the Internet is that stuff should be free or close to it. Personally, my mind boggles at how cheap this content is. To acquire all 50 issues of a magazine from 1990 to date would probably run you well over $1000, assuming an average cost of $20/issue (design magazines tend to be more expensive). And this isn’t the usual junk you get in a tutorial off the internet or technique book focusing on lame filter effects and cookie-cutter recipes. BAM provides specific examples for the why behind a particular design approach, which I think is quite valuable. You could get someone to teach you a course in each article’s topic and pay $300 for it, of course. Or go to design school and maybe learn something, paying a lot more money for it.
I will probably have to order this DVD to properly review it, though, so I can attest to its content personally.
Only $149 now!
Just spent some time over at the Before and After website … just reading some of the December 2010 articles and comments and I feel better educated about design. Having the whole set would be awesome! Thanks for the link, David! I wish some of my favorite bloggers would do the same thing ….
I just ordered it the other day to test as part of my toolkit for advising small business owners and people just getting into design.