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Some Firm Advice from Design Mentors

May 20, 2014
5.20.2014
Some Firm Advice from Design Mentors

We talk with three pairs of designers and students from the recently launched NYSID Alumni Mentorship Program to uncover advice from both ends of the professional spectrum.

There is no doubt that design professionals and design students approach their work from very different perspectives—not only because of their experience levels, but also the basic, parametric differences between educational and “real-world” environments. We checked in with some of the participants in NYSID’s new Alumni Mentorship program to see exactly what those differences look like, and what we can learn from them.

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