Labs for Design & Business

Coroflot released its annual report about designer salary (See the coroflot’s 2009 designer salary survey). Although the sample size is  small, it shows that academic research does not seem to be a smart choice, at least, financially. However, it is also true that more academic approach is needed for design. Please see below someone’s comment (I am sorry to forget who posted this note) on the PhD design mailing list.

“Teaching by showing is normal; teaching by explaining the way of thinking is the next step forward. An excellent designer with superimposed doctoral training can be a real treasure. It is a pity that so many good designers do not actualize themselves to their full potential both as designers and as professors just because they hate that bookish staff. It is high time that design academia rethink their way of creating new professors.”