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An impressive portfolio leaves an essential question open: who has the student become through making it? My new essay on design education: heretakis.medium.com/what-ar…

A drawing is not valuable merely because it resembles its subject. It matters because it reveals whether we have actually looked deeply. Remove the resistance of observation too early and we may produce images without developing perception.

Students can learn software quickly. Learning to tell when a brief is wrong takes longer. Make room for them to challenge the question they were given. linktr.ee/thenewartschool

The Palette of Possibility: An Exploration of Why Creative Freedom Terrifies Institutionss. Institutions prefer predictable outcomes. What happens when artistic education teaches students to question the limits imposed upon them? Read heretakis.medium.com/the-pal…

When Form Forgets Function: Apple's iPhone 18 Pro makes typography shout. But does visual force necessarily produce good design? An examination of proportion, restraint and the limits of branding spectacle. Read newartschool.education/2025/…

Design Education Talks - Ep. 73: Emanuel Barbosa connects Portuguese design education with years of creative work in China. A valuable perspective on international design practice. Listen designeducationtalks.buzzspr…

We talk endlessly about interdisciplinary education, but what happens when students have never developed substantial knowledge of a discipline? There is little value in crossing boundaries if we have never understood what lies within them.

The danger of AI hallucination is not merely that machines invent falsehoods. It is that those falsehoods can look more convincing than the truth. When appearance becomes evidence, human judgement becomes indispensable. My new essay: heretakis.medium.com/there-i…

We do not always know what we think before we begin making something. Sometimes it is through drawing, working with materials, making mistakes and trying again that understanding develops. This is why the experience of making matters as much as the work itself.

The real value of international artistic education is not simply travelling or studying elsewhere. It is encountering another way of seeing, thinking and making, and discovering how much of what we previously considered obvious was simply what we had been taught.

Not everything students make needs to be useful. Drawing, experimenting, failing and uncertain ideas can develop capabilities that endure long after the work is forgotten. The purpose of artistic education is not simply to produce better work, but more capable human beings.

What would an art school built around hand, heart and eye actually teach? The New Art School manifesto is an invitation to work through that question together. linktr.ee/thenewartschool

Some are teaching students how to produce creative work without giving them the time to develop the understanding behind it. Drawing, typography, illustration are not simply skills to be acquired. They are ways of learning to observe, think, question and understand the world.

A student should leave art school able to question a brief, not only fulfil it. That capacity takes practice, time and the freedom to investigate: lulu.com/spotlight/heretakis

IP can be transferred or licensed, offered to enter into cooperation agreements or contributed as capital in a joint venture. Protecting and managing IP through well-drafted agreements is key for business success. intellectual-property-helpde…

The Future of Design: Dylan Field and Pontus Wärnestål on AI, Collaboration and Creativity Designers are increasingly responsible for systems that influence human behaviour, relationships and social conditions. heretakis.medium.com/the-fut…

Balvir Nandra questions the institutional structures, professional expectations and educational assumptions shaping contemporary art and design education. He challenges art schools to recover observation, drawing, reading and independent judgement. newartschool.education/2022/…

Design Education Talks podcast: Cal Swann (Ep. 74) on a lifetime in typography, from Leicester art school and Saint Martin’s to pioneering online design education. designeducationtalks.buzzspr…