Do You Need a Degree to be a Designer? (and more!)

[Jeronimosdc]

the background music is ridiculous, theres no point in putting background music in these type of videos

[ecuenvivo]

What is the song please?

[designnow51]

I believe your weekly videos are very smart and helpful, thanks.

I agree with the music, its a bit distracting.

Question Time !

What are some significant problems you've encountered in your career ?

What is something your very happy you learned , either in web design or life etc

Do you have a favourite project ? What was the most exciting project you did ?

^ besides your blog of course.

Do you have a designer you admire or like enjoy to see their work ?

Hopefully you'll answer at least one.

[timothywhalin]

Hey man, couldn't focus on your voice and listening to it to hear the whole thing through. As others said, the music is distracting and the quality of the audio of your voice seems poor. If you redo this, please let me know! :)

[krizss1]

@timothywhalin + 1

[JuicyDBASE]

Thanks Chris for making this video. You inspire me to be a better and more proactive designer. I agree with others, it is sort of hard to hear with the music.

Love the vids!

[neehaaw]

Ive just finished my final year of uni in multimedia which i had to go away to uni to complete and hated it, the course was shocking to be honest and i failed my final project, which has resulted in me having to retake it.

I wish i hadn't bothered going and just got my foundation degree and went straight into the industry. Uni is years behind in the industry, and the teachers only really like projects whereby its they're own personal interest.

[spoongraphics]

Thanks for the feedback everyone. It definitely sounds like I messed up the audio this time! It sounded OK when I 'proof listened', but I'll make a few changes for the next one, including quieter or no background music ;-)

By the way, are there any real Spanish speakers out there who'd like to post up a translation of the Spanish clip? We can then play guess the movie it's stolen from

[leangsta]

Is there anyway you can improve on the audio? I can barely hear you. I believe its the hissing static noise that is interrupting your speech and the background noise level is higher that your voice, so it makes it really hard for some of us to hear.

[cruxfilm]

Cool video but loose the music. It annoys the shit out of everyone.^^

[Jordens28]

Love the video!

[agustinroberts]

sorry, this is totally out of context, but looks like a mix of Syler and Peter from Heroes! :P

Nice video!!

[senoravaca]

nice spanish! ;) maybe create closed captioning in English and Spanish

[yashe2409]

a am a designer but i dont hav a Degree

so i to think the same

[mind4me]

Yea, music is way too anoying I just cant hear you at a the moments.

[JonKyu]

@mind4me Lmao, hey chris instead of spanish subtitle how about some english ones? The music is a tad distracting coupled with an accent you're not used to hearing it gets hard to make out what your saying. But great job with what I could hear!

[nigassma]

@JonKyu Maybe we're more exposed to accents out in California, but his accent isn't nearly as thick as you think it is. He just needs to throw up some reverberation dampening stuff around him to reduce that reverb and it'll be easier to hear him.

[starboy55]

Love the video posts, but the music in this one is distracting.

[pixonu]

lol @ spanish!

tip: If you upload a 'closed captioning' to your video people in different languages can translate it.

[Tutovillage]

Nice hair style Chris :)