Design Education

Welcome to a new design community. 👋🏻 We are inviting all formal and informal teachers within the design industry to Design Education – a safe space to swap and share knowledge, experiences, research, ideas and insights – in order to improve the conditions for learning design.

Bit of very unscientific research… but facilitators - what’s your favourite “pump up” music? The music that gets you and the participants moving.. online please Eg. Irl I used to like bat out of hell by meatloaf…. But I want your best online workshop Whitley’s please 🤗

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Have you studied or taught Art and Design in Higher Education? I am looking for participants to take part in my new study. See below for details. Please get in touch with me at: A.J.Armitage@2018.ljmu.ac.uk callforparticipants.com/RF9QL5

Are you a designer? We need your help! We want to hear from designers to learn how the roles and job titles in design are changing. We’ll use these insights to help us assess the scale and value of the UK’s #designeconomy. forms.office.com/r/ZQTR973Bpf

Good morning! Why not take 5 minutes over this survey with your morning coffee? Top org @_designcan__ are really trying to make changed in the design industry. This way, you can help too! ‘Are we any closer to equity in design?’ niu4wxyyzyn.typeform.com/designcan2021 via @luketonge

We are now 600 members in our Slack community! 🎉🍾✨

Hello 22 new followers over night! 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻 What type of design is your favourite to teach?

Looking for design educators/teachers on Twitter to follow. Any recommendations?!

@miggi Welcome to join us on Slack! 👋🏻🙂 designeducation.co

Design educators, this one's for you. ✨ Starting tomorrow, Designer Advocate @miggi will be hosting a bi-weekly demo for those who want to find creative ways to use Figma and FigJam in the classroom. Bring your questions and register here: bit.ly/2X2mUxW

Love seeing initiatives like this! Also, how can we help? /JT “The Future of Design Education Initiative is as multifaceted and complicated as the world of education itself, but its mission is clear: to develop a new framework of design curricula for the future…”

Interesting thread. Thanks @luketonge for the ping! What do our followers think?

Dear young designer,

@DesignEducation @theloversmag is so good at capturing the stories behind the top designers in our industry 🎯💪🤞❤️💥🧨

@PlanBstudio @simonfrr @fehler @TheDesignKids You’re the best, Steve!

@DesignEducation hi there! Big fan of your work. I'm looking for the best way to learn graphic design AND meet other students and people from the industry at the same time, so ideally IRL (e.g. shillington) — do you know of other options? Thanks in advance!

What are your favourite design books, blogs and magazines? #designeducation

Support!

@simonfrr @fehler @TheDesignKids @PlanBstudio And then there is this… 😎 m.youtube.com/watch?v=91FQKc… (Jenny)

@simonfrr Maybe start with setting yourself a purpose, learning goals, budget and define an roadmap of how to get there? @fehler @TheDesignKids @PlanBstudio are good people to follow.