What is it Actually Like?

What is it Actually Like? is a typographic publication built from 21 recorded conversations with graphic design students, graduates, and offer holders. Covering finances, identity, community, industry, and the gap between expectation and reality, the project documents the inner experience of design education in the words of the people living it. At a time when the narrative around higher education is largely shaped by institutions and social media, this is something different. Each interview is responded to typographically in the main publication, accompanied by 21 individual transcript booklets. The project doesn't offer a single conclusion. It offers twenty-one.