Opinion: Design education

 
Rebalancing the design canon

Rebalancing the design canon

Design education, Education

Elizabeth Resnick looks at the practitioners and educators intent on revising our understanding of women’s roles in design history
 
Experiments in destabilisation

Experiments in destabilisation

Critical path, Design education, Design history

A CalArts book celebrates decades of purposeful graphic weirdness. Critique by Rick Poynor
 

Why we should talk to our neighbours

Design education, Graphic design

Design education faces some important decisions. To what extent should it be about the study of the subject as well as its practice?
 
Understand, visualise, survive

Understand, visualise, survive

Design education, Education

Max Gadney argues that information design should be a compulsory part of every graphic design course
 

What did you do in the design studio today, daddy?

Design education, Graphic design, Visual culture, Agenda

Graphic designers are convinced of the profession’s importance. Now they have to convince everyone else
 

Mysterious absence at the cutting edge

Critical path, Design education, Graphic design

Britain has many design stars and most of them are men. Yet very few young women want to be seen as feminists. That’s starting to change
 

The (layered) vision thing

Design education, Graphic design

If it has dotted lines, an arrow or two and it’s impossible to read, then it must be ‘postmodern’. Are we using the theory the way it was intended?