Education

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Brian LaRossa|Opinions

De-specializing Design Education

Certification represents an assurance of quality, but also implies exclusivity. What about design?

Brian LaRossa|Essays

Design as a Third Area of General Education

Graphic designers are insecure. This is understandable; design lacks defensible boundaries.

Doug Powell|Interviews

The Future of Design (Education)

Doug Powell sat down on the porch of Austin Center for Design with it’s founder, Jon Kolko to talk about design education, design for good, and how job titles are poor definitions.

Kenneth FitzGerald|Essays

Learn by Numbers: Eleven Lessons Taught Only in Design School

With two decades of design education experience behind me (and a reader of the popular design press for even longer), I’ve picked through the bulging bin of designers’ opinions about school to compile my own list of advice.

Steven Heller|Essays

The Commencement Address I Never Gave

There are few greater honors than to be the one who launches graduates into the world.

Kathleen Meaney|Essays

Co-Teaching with Eustace Tilley

What the New Yorker can teach us about understanding images

The AIGA Design Educators Community|Books

Required Reading

AIGA’s Design Educators Community list their must-have books for design inspiration for 2017

Steven Heller|Essays

The Specious Thesis

Dear Student: your email interview questions are general, uninspiring, and painful to answer.

Mariana Amatullo|Essays

People to People ÂÂ: Fresh Eyes on a Changing Cuba

The power of visual metaphor and design’s aesthetic dimension as a way forward for cultural rapprochement and social transformation.

Michael Bierut|Essays

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mentor, Or, Why Modernist Designers Are Superior

Does a strict upbringing make you a better designer?

Kathleen Meaney|Essays

Greening the Grocery Store

It turns out that the recycling symbol at the bottom of my yogurt container had nothing to do with its recyclability. So why was it there? My curiosity led to findings around which I built a design class.