Get in touch!Today on Design Education Talks, we’re joined by John McFaul , Executive Creative Director, Brand Consultant, Educator, and one of those rare, restless creatives who has never quite fitted into the neat boxes the world tries to offer. Fr...
Design has been domesticated into a polite, portfolio-friendly profession—sanitised, aestheticised, stripped of its teeth. But design was never meant to be safe. It was meant to expose, to question, to disrupt.
As AI, economic pressures, and shifting employment landscapes reshape the industry, institutions must prioritise adaptability, collaboration, and critical thinking. The future belongs to those who embrace change, and educators like Jac Batey are lead...
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...
Get in touch!Sheng-Hung Lee is a designer, engineer, and educator dedicated to advancing human-centered design and systemic service innovation. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), focusing on human be...
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...
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...
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...
