6. Talk about your education in Graphic Arts, Printing technologies, and Photo-lithography.
Well, I was a very bad student at school, lack of motivation and interest I guess, school was so boring at that time and I hated it until the very last years of my High School which were way better while I was studying in Graphic Arts, then I was in my world and I loved it...
That was a special 4 years long program which was focusing on the Printing technologies. The Graphic Arts part was on Graphic Design, needless to say that in 78, there was no Personal Computers, so forget about Photoshop LOL, (PS began in 1990). So everything was made by hand, Lettraset sheets, and China ink by hand... Printing was about off-set presses, ink etc. I should have learn how to print money at that time, we were having some good Gestetner presses at our disposal... hehe
Photo-lithography (Photo = Light, Lithography = Etching) is about the processes between the drawing and ready to Print Material and the Off-Set Press process. It is all about black room work, films, films mounting, metal plates burning and preparation...
All these processes are now almost dead with the coming of Computers and new Technologies.. Damn Job Stealing Computers... LOL
But, I'm glad I got this formation, now many years later, things I learned are helping me a lot as Graphic Designer... Can I call it a "Coming Back to my Root" ?
I think I can say that I'm a self made person. My French (in writing) was not that good when I finished school and now I like to think that my French is near excellent... I learned a lot by myself after school only by reading everything I could put my hands on, Same for my English (Yeah Yeah I know it still sucks Big Time.
) but imagine how it was when I was 16/17 coming out of school.
I think the schools system is not really helping young people by asking them too early what they want to do in life. Like we know that when we are 13-14 years old and we have to make lifetime decisions...
