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...
Apple used to speak softly, now it shouts. The iPhone 17 Pro’s new typography is bold, extended, and loud. But in chasing power, has Apple sacrificed the restraint that made its design language timeless? Our latest article unpacks this visual shift a...
Get in touch!I run MA illustration and teach on BA illustration. Also supervise practice-based PhDs. Specialism is in illustration/artistbooks/zines and teaching. My own creative practice is mostly as in artists book /artzines and as an artist. I wor...
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...
A manifesto for mindful design education. It calls for a return to craft as the foundation of judgement, ethics, and creativity in an automated world, reminding us that true innovation begins with care, reflection, and human discernment.
Contemporary education for prioritising compliance over creativity, reducing students to passive recipients of knowledge. Influenced by thinkers like Ruskin and Freire, we argues that this mechanisation makes AI appear intelligent while genuine creat...
There is no design without devotion. No progress without persistence. No education without commitment. We explore what it truly means to stay with the process, to teach, to learn, and to design with purpose. Featuring thoughts from Ruskin, Rand, Mun...
In our latest podcast with Gwen van den Eijnde, Head of Apparel Design at RISD, we discuss his journey from costume design to academia, exploring storytelling through clothing and the role of art schools as spaces of imagination. A reminder that desi...
AI is changing design—but not replacing it. Dylan Field (Figma) highlights speed and collaboration, while Pontus Wärnestål (Designing AI-Powered Services) urges us to design for ethics, trust and societal impact. The future of design is human-centred...
Get in touch!Gwen van den Eijnde is a French–Dutch artist and costume designer based in the United States. For the past decade, he has been teaching apparel design at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, where he currently serves a...
Unlock creativity and rescue our future: discovering why education’s imagination crisis demands art schools. Dive into how fostering creativity, not just knowledge, reshapes learners, communities, and innovation. Read more to champion the arts, it’s...
Towards a Dynamic Discipline of Design reimagines design as a fluid, alterplinary force beyond static definitions. Premiering at MODE 2025, the film journeys from ancient hand-axes to systemic futures, showing design as the table for collaboration, i...
