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...

JELO6 Project / ATHENS 202613–17 May 2026 | Benaki Museum – Pireos 138 & Citywide VenuesTheme: Can Art Ultimately Be A-Political?In May 2026, Athens becomes a living laboratory of contemporary making, thought, and exchange as the JELO6 Project return...

This article is not a polite critique of education. It is a confrontation. At a moment when artificial intelligence is exposing the fragility of our systems, The Moulding Hand cuts through the noise to reveal a deeper truth: the crisis did not begin...

Education may be the most powerful space in society. It is the place where a civilisation decides what it means to know, to think, and to become human. Schools, universities, studios and workshops do not simply transmit information; they shape the ha...

We hope this message finds you well. We are writing to introduce The New Art School, an independent educational initiative dedicated to rethinking art and design education for the twenty-first century. The New Art School is built on a clear and urgen...

There is a question at the heart of every serious conversation about education, and it is one institutions are structurally designed to avoid. What if attendance were voluntary. Not rhetorically voluntary. Not theoretically optional. But structurally...

We hope this message finds you well. We are writing to introduce The New Art School, an independent educational initiative dedicated to rethinking art and design education for the twenty-first century. The New Art School is built on a clear and urgen...

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...