#design-education

#design-education

DixonBaxi takes creative sabbaticals to help designers connect with each other, recognizing that meaningful collaboration and relationship-building are essential components of a thriving creative environment and sustained innovation within the agency.

The GSD course "Paper or Plastic: Reinventing Shelf Life in the Supermarket Landscape," taught by twin brothers Teman and Teran Evans, turns students into strategists who evaluate household brands and then redesign them from the ground up. The Brooklyn-bred Evans brothers have been lifelong collaborators. Both attended the Graduate School of Design before launching careers in design, marketing, and branding. They've been teaching "Paper or Plastic" at the Graduate School of Design for 14 years.

The DBEW Award 2026 officially opens its global call for entries, inviting students and educators to participate in an educational movement that redefines design as a manifestation of collective intelligence. By mandating a co-creation model, the award introduces a fundamental shift in traditional competition: you cannot enter alone. This framework targets the friction of intergenerational learning as the primary source of innovation, requiring joint submissions between an educator and a student, including undergraduates, graduates, or those within two years of graduation.

Its newest, though, is a single-fan book with more than 600 spot colors, and it's priced at just $99. Pantone for beginners. Pantone on Thursday announced its Pantone Capsule: Signature Edition. Housed in a collectible, cylindrical case that wouldn't look out of place in a Sephora, the guide is a sort of Pantone 101 that come on coated and uncoated paper stock with colors selected from across more than 60 years of Pantone history.

There's something quietly radical about sitting in a recycled Adirondack chair while you're waiting for your flight at the world's busiest airport. Plastic Reimagined transforms locally sourced plastic waste into full-scale seating prototypes, bridging design education, material research, and civic infrastructure at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and honestly, I can't stop thinking about how clever this is. Here's what happened.

Since 2017, the UI Design Master at Innovation School has been the first Italian course focused on the design of visual user interfaces. Starting from the 3rd edition, I joined scientific coordinator as part of the faculty, following students through their project work.

Watching how Wilson Smith and Tate Kuebris poured into the next generation of designers was nothing short of inspiring. Having developed the first accredited sneaker design degree in the U.S., SCAD continues to set the bar for how deeply creative education can connect to industry practice. SNKR Culture Week serves as an open door for students to walk directly into the world they dream of joining.

New American Voices is AD's annual list spotlighting the most important emerging names in interior design. For our AD PRO readers, we're pulling back the curtain to see how these talents (comprising nine designers and seven firms) got to where they are today. Their paths vary widely-some trained in formal design programs, others took less traditional routes-but together they offer a candid look at the realities of building a practice.

My day job is a design educator, so for me, this time of year is filled with writing syllabi, planning new classes, and thinking about what the next generation of designers might need to know as they enter an ever-changing field. To do this, I look for the designers, the writers, and the thinkers who challenge my understanding of design and force me to think about what we do in new ways.

We don't need more education but rather, we need different education. We need alternative modes of building and sharing knowledge in order to produce the forms of meaningful knowledge that can engage with these crises.