(a.k.a. Self-taught artists)

For achieving artists/designers without college degrees who rely on their skills, not a piece of paper.

In other words:

The purpose of this group is to show that you don't need to have a "proper/formal" education in order to succeed in the professional world.

NOTE: This is -not- to be taken as an attack on design/art students, regardless of their academic status.

No one is saying one is better than the other.

People without degrees have as much right to be recognized as schooled professionals, as long as they have the skills to back their claims.
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According to Wikipedia:

"Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) is self-education or self-directed learning. An autodidact, also known as an automath, is a mostly self-taught person.

A person may become an autodidact at nearly any point in his or her life. While some may have been educated in a conventional manner in a particular field, they may choose to educate themselves in other, often unrelated areas.

Self-teaching and self-directed learning are not necessarily lonely processes. Some autodidacts spend a great deal of time in libraries or on educative websites. Many, according to their plan for learning, avail themselves of instruction from family members, friends, or other associates (although strictly speaking this might not be considered autodidactic). Indeed, the term "self-taught" is something of a journalistic trope these days, and is often used to signify "non-traditionally educated," which is entirely different."

“ The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education”
- Albert Einstein