Between these two poles stretches an unstable and largely unexplored landscape of labour, authorship, and value. The next two to five years will be decisive. We will see seismic shifts, economic, pedagogical, cultural, and ethical. Entire workflows w...
What if our greatest educational failure is that we forgot how to play? In a world obsessed with metrics, compliance, and performative achievement, we’ve sidelined the one human capacity that actually fuels creativity, courage, and innovation: the ra...
In art and design, we're often told that creativity is about pushing boundaries. But what if it’s more about expanding the possibilities within those boundaries? The true power of design lies not just in breaking through limitations, but in transform...
Design education stands at its most profound turning point in history.AI hasn’t just added a new tool, it has rewritten the logic of creativity itself.From Goethe to Ruskin, Blake to Emerson, the wisdom of the past reveals what’s at stake: the human...
In this episode of Design Education Talks, Jac Batey, senior lecturer in Illustration at the University of Portsmouth, shares her expertise on the intersection of design education, creative practice and social awareness. With a background in illustra...
Ordinary people can choose to be extraordinary. My latest essay, Becoming the Designer You Already Are, explores how designers can cultivate curiosity, clarity, and courage to create work that is authentic, impactful, and uniquely their own. This is...
Apple’s new iPhone 17 Pro typography has broken with decades of restraint. The once-silent brand now shouts in bold, extended letters, a move that reveals as much about design’s future as it does about Apple’s loss of typographic grace. 👉 Read...
Design education once promised to shape the world, to merge imagination with ethics, and aesthetics with humanity. But that dream has been diluted by the demands of the market, the metrics of employability, and the spectacle of consumption. This essa...
There is no design without devotion. No progress without persistence. No education without commitment.My latest essay, The Discipline of Commitment in Design Education, explores what it truly means to stay with the process — to teach, to learn, and t...
In a world obsessed with speed, spectacle and the next big trend, it is rare to find voices urging us to slow down, to touch, feel, imagine and question. In his new conversation with The New Art School, #designer, #educator and #creative thinker Gwen...
