Tag: design education
Teaching design, curriculum philosophy, classroom strategies, and what 25 years in the studio classroom actually looks like.
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It Just Doesn’t Matter
After 25 years telling students I don’t care about grades, and I mean it every single time. What…
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If It Wasn’t an A, I Didn’t Turn It In (And What That Cost Me)
If it wasn’t an A, I didn’t turn it in. That perfectionism cost me more than I realized…
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I Didn’t Mean to Start a Blog Today
The plan was to write one blog post. What actually happened was I designed an entire content system…
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Stories Don’t Explain a Principle — They Install It
Stories don’t explain a principle — they install it. What happened when 650 creativity exercises revealed the difference…
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You Can’t Teach Making by Explaining It
After 25 years of teaching design, the hardest lesson: you can’t teach making by explaining it. The tools…
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Playing With Purpose: Research Without an Agenda
Playing With Purpose Exercise 11: Research something you think you know — with no agenda. The goal isn’t…
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Color Is a Frequency. That Changes Everything.
Part 1 of the color theory series: why color-as-emotion is incomplete, and what happens when you start treating…
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Your Typeface Has a Sound. Here’s the Research.
Two typefaces that look nothing alike feel the same. A student’s question led to years of research into…
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What If a Song Wrote Your Next Design?
A design brief full of contradictions. A song playing in the background. Twenty minutes later, the whole thing…
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Playing With Purpose: Ask a Better Question
Playing With Purpose Exercise 10: Rewrite your stuck question five times, each layer deeper. The question you started…