The SVC Difference
What sets SVC apart from other schools is our thinking that the best people to teach you are the people who already have the job you want. So, instead of a full-time faculty, our classes and workshops are taught by working professionals. More often than not, these are people at the top of their game, not wannabes or used-to-bes. Another SVC difference is that most classes are taught in the evening, so you can work while putting your portfolio together.
How SVC helps you get a job
It's pretty simple, actually. SVC prepares you for the job market in design, advertising, and web design, by helping you put together a portfolio of work so excellent that employers will want to give you a second look. How do we do it? First, by having top working professionals do the teaching, they know how good a book has to be to attract a creative director's attention. Those same working professionals are also SVC's answer to a job placement office. As your instructors get to know the quality of your work, they'll be the first to recommend (or hire) you at their own firms.
History? Yes, we have one.
While most portfolio schools are relatively new inventions, SVC dates back to the days before Photoshop, the web, and recycled paper; 1971, to be exact. That year, two gifted and highly successful illustrators, Dick and Cherry Brown, decided to open an art school where working professionals would do the teaching. Since computers hadn't been invented yet, they stressed hand skills and conceptual thinking. Nearly 40 years later, their underlying philosophy is still quite intact. Today, SVC still believes you should learn to draw and think, before you start to point and click. We're not opposed to technology. Hardly. What we're opposed to is people who think learning to pound a hammer qualifies you to be an architect.
The people behind SVC
In keeping with the philosophy of its founders that the best instruction comes from working professionals, it should come as no surprise that one of the co-directors of SVC, Larry Asher, is a highly regarded advertising copywriter and creative director. In addition to managing SVC, he continues to run a successful ad agency, bringing his working-world knowledge of marketing communications to SVC's curriculum. Co-director Linda Hunt brings her experience of more than 20 years as the principal administrator of SVC to the table. Every day she lives up to her belief that a school is too large if you can't know each of the students personally.
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