Education

Connect 4|Audio

Min Lew and Zaiah Sampson: Finding Your Creative Voice

Feeling confident in yourself and your work—especially when you’re still a student—can be a challenge.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Playing With Design: Fredun Shapur

Add Fredun Shapur to the pantheon of modern designers making winning and sculptural objects for children.

William Drenttel|Event-Education

Winterhouse Second Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Final Report

The final report from a symposium held in Connecticut, August 2011, where 28 participants from a variety of design and education programs discussed the challenges of social change initiatives within their schools, museums and …

Dana Arnett|Audio

S10E7: Marcia Lausen

Marcia Lausen is Director of the UIC School of Design and founder of the Chicago office of Studio/lab.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Steven Heller

Debbie Millman interviews Steven Heller — art director, educator and the author of more than 100 books on design, design history and contemporary culture.

The Editors|Twenty Years of Design Observer

Education

Educators are among our most cherished cultural ambassadors, sage deputies charged with cultivating curiosity, bestowing counsel, constructing networks, broadening horizons, and expanding capacities for us all.

Observed|Miscellaneous

Typolitic

Typolitic is a new website that presents some of the best typographic student work from undergraduate design courses around the world.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Steven Heller

Debbie Millman interviews Steven Heller — art director, educator and the author of more than 100 books on design, design history and contemporary culture.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Steven Heller

Debbie Millman interviews Steven Heller — art director, educator and the author of more than 100 books on design, design history and contemporary culture.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Steven Heller

Debbie Millman interviews Steven Heller — art director, educator and the author of more than 100 books on design, design history and contemporary culture.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Design Matters from the Archive: Lynda Weinman

Debbie talks to lynda.com’s Lynda Weinman about how the internet is challenging the traditional classroom model.

Connect 4|Audio

Man-Wai Cheung and Angel Blanco: “Mom, Dad, I Want to Be a Designer”

Man-Wai Cheung, founder and creative director of Adolescent and design student Angel Blanco, talk about choosing a creative career as first generation immigrants—and how they each explained that choice to their parents.