Design Education Talks Ep. 21 – Jaygo Bloom

Jaygo Bloom is the Program Leader for British Design programs, BA Graphic Design and BA Illustration located at the British … More

Articulating Design

We must work towards hand heart eye coordination skills, in order to advance design and design education even further.

Design Education Talks Ep. 20 – John Spencer

Just have fun. Fun is so important to what we do. We have to, we have to have fun doing it. Because if we don’t, it’s not going to be very good.

Design Education Talks Ep. 19 – Rama Gheerawo

Education is a knowledge of perspective. It’s the bringing of your life into greater understanding and integrated balance

Design Education Talks Ep. 18 – Natalia Delgado

The students are very similar, all over the world. That’s that’s the one thing that I have found that is constant, even like Canada, Mexico, Africa, Ecuador I can tell you like all these different places.And the questions I can already anticipate the questions that I’m going to ask because of the shared human experience.

Design Education Talks Ep. 17 – Laze Tripkov

Credits cannot help you in real life, your portfolio can.

Design Education Talks Ep. 16 – Louise O’Boyle

In order to empower students we must make them be aware of the networks that are available to them, whether they local, national or global, and give them that confidence to try things and to know that it’s okay for something not to work and how to get back from that.

Design Education Talks Ep. 15 – Frank Peters

One of the big issues we always have now in design courses is have you built in enough risk into the projects? have you built in the fact that if a project fails, there is a very valid learning experience within that failure? have you built that in? Or is it the case that you don’t get the credits, the weighting, etc, etc.

Design Education talks ep.14 – Tea Uglow

“Always focus on your strengths. And don’t try too much to be the thing that they want you to be, just enough to stop you getting fired.”

Design Education Talks ep.13 – Derek Jones

The culmination of a good higher education and design education is the recognition of we you do as being valuable. We see the opposite in primary and secondary schools. At some point in the process we see drawing with coloured pencils as wrong and drawing with blue ink or black ink and writing on paper as correct. And we apply this, we don’t even say that explicitly and that is the worst bit.