This week I’m joined by Nikolaus Hafermaas — designer, educator, and the restless mind behind Transmedia Design at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena.Nikolaus grew up in Kassel as a “documenta child,” studied at UdK Berlin, built cultural experi...
This week we published a piece about Malcolm Grear, and we think it might be the most absorbing thing we have written in a while. Grear arrived at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1960 intending to stay for twelve months. He stayed for thirty-eig...
Hello everyone!What if everything we assumed about art and design education was wrong?That's the question driving The New Art School — a bold, independent movement founded by designer, lecturer, and podcaster Lefteris Heretakis, dedicated to revoluti...
Forty years in design.Thirty-two years teaching.Still asking the right questions.Gail Anderson does not do comfortable answers.She art directed Rolling Stone for fourteen years. She ran Broadway advertising campaigns at SpotCo for a decade. Now she c...
Alan Fletcher occupies a singular position in the history of graphic design because his work cannot be reduced to style, movement, or period. Many designers become associated with a recognisable visual language, yet Fletcher’s significance lies preci...
The conversation with Tom Lynham unfolds not as a conventional career narrative, but as a meditation on creativity, education, communication, and the evolving moral responsibility of design. What emerges is the portrait of a practitioner who has move...
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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...
