Dear friends,What is the most important skill for the designer of the future?It may not be typography. It may not be software. It may not even be the ability to generate brilliant ideas.It may be the ability to make another person believe in them.As...
I have spent enough years in art schools to know that some of the most important things that happen in them are almost impossible to record. A student finally sees what is wrong with a drawing. A conversation changes the direction of a project. Someo...
Dear friends,In The Hand Returns: Apple, Craft and the Future of Design Education, I look at Apple’s MacBook Neo campaign and the deeper message behind its handmade production process. At a time when AI can generate polished images in seconds, Apple’...
Post-Disciplinary Creative Practices for the 15th EAI International Conference:ArtsIT, Interactivity & Game CreationIn the twentieth-century artistic practices repeatedly sought to move beyond the specificity of medium, technique, process, style and...
Dear friends,In this new episode of Design Education Talks, I speak with Dan Vlahos, a Boston-based design leader, educator, researcher, and Senior Lecturer at Bentley University. Dan’s work moves across graphic design, dynamic media, motion graphics...
Dear friends,I have just published a new article reflecting on Kaleena Sales, designer, educator, author of Centered: People and Ideas Diversifying Design, and Chair of the Department of Art and Design at Tennessee State University.The article is tit...
Dear friends,I have just published a new article on Medium: Mirrorless Cameras Accidentally Killed Photography. What Does That Mean for Design Education?The article begins with photography, but it is really about education, technology and the slow di...
Dear friends,I have just published a new article on Medium titled Reality Is Not a Brief: Carlo Rovelli, Design Education and the Collapse of the Fixed World.The article begins with Carlo Rovelli’s extraordinary ideas about physics, space, time, rela...
We Built the Machine in Our Own Image: Design, AI, and the Failure of ImaginationA designer, particularly one working within the traditions of interaction design and experiential thinking articulated by Pontus Wärnestål, would begin elsewhere. Not wi...
It’s time to make the invisible visible. Educators and professionals need to bridge the gap by explicitly teaching the "soft skills" and professional realities that define a design career.Read more here:https://heretakis.medium.com/the-invisible-curr...
