The problem is not that AI has entered design; the problem is that design education was already hollow before AI arrived…

Chris Saunders of Right Aligned Academy joins Lefteris Heretakis to explore why the gap between design education and industry has become a void. Together, they examine the anxiety facing young crea…

Our guest today is Jan Kubasiewicz, Professor of Design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and one of the most influential figures in the development of dynamic media and motion design educati...

Design education has collapsed. Not collapsing, already collapsed. Students leave school half fluent in software but unable to think, capable of executing briefs but incapable of questioning them, tra...

John Taylor Gatto, Responsibility and Education Beyond Permission

Advice for Young Designers in an Age of Speed, Noise, AI and Hollow Professionalism.

Art and design education has reached a turning point. For too long, creative education has been pulled toward systems that were never designed for it. The language of research, measurement, adminis…

Simon Collins is one of the most internationally experienced figures working at the intersection of design education, creative leadership and innovation. His career spans global brands including Nike,...

John Taylor Gatto, Responsibility and Education Beyond Permission

The cultural and creative industries employ more young people than any other sector worldwide. Yet persistent skills gaps, digital divides, and precarious working conditions threaten to undermine

A student walks into their first design studio believing they are about to learn how to be creative. They imagine inspiration, originality…

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 c…

In this episode of Design Education Talks, I am joined by graphic designer, publisher, editor and educator Esen Karol for a thoughtful conversation about what it means to educate designers in an age o...

Craft Scotland is leading a call for Edinburgh University to reverse the planned closures of several programmes at the College of Art (ECA), saying the

John Taylor Gatto was so good at teaching that he was named New York City's teacher of the year three years in a row and the state's best teacher in 1991.

Art and design education, class and the changing meaning of admission

Artificial intelligence has not disrupted design education. It has revealed it.

Most people do not design. They repeat. They repeat what they have seen, what they have been rewarded for, what their tutors praised, what the industry currently desires, what the algorithm amplifi…

Graham Fink is one of those rare creative figures whose career refuses to fit neatly into a single title. Creative director, art director, writer, artist, technologist, musician, filmmaker and educato...

Lebanese youth show what resilience looks like

A New Art School Commentary on William Morris

Niam Yaraghi discusses how education should change amid a tension between short-term productivity and long-term cognitive development.

Successive, overlapping crises reveal that American higher education makes no sense.

In 1920, more than a century before ChatGPT, Midjourney and generative AI, the Czech writer Karel Čapek wrote a play about a company that appeared to have solved one of humanity’s oldest problems: wor...

London Design Festival celebrates and promotes London as the design capital of the world.

For more than two centuries, writers and filmmakers have imagined what might happen when human beings create systems they no longer fully control. The lineage begins with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (...

From: On Craftsmanship: Towards a New Bauhaus. London: Oberon Books, 2011.

What does artificial intelligence really think about humanity? Keith Smith interviews AI about human intelligence, creativity, emotion, power, the future of work and whether our species has what it ta...

As generative AI turns production into a commodity, agency leaders say judgement, taste and cultural insight are becoming advertising's scarcest currency

Research, craftsmanship, the hand and the mind, and why Frayling’s arguments about art and design education matter even more in the age of…