Teaching Graphic Design at a Human Scale (human scale = human-centered) If we imagine that the teaching of graphic design exists as an extension of the marketplace and only in service to its needs, we overlook the discipline’s basis for existing. Graphic design studies cannot simply be an extension of industry since, in most cases,

This space is a call for a discussion surrounding the challenges, intricacies and best practices for teaching sustainability to communication designers. Peter Fine and Eric Benson will host the discussion through a series of connected questions that will lead to a depository of best practices. Introduction: If we assume that design should be central to

Design pedagogy? Teaching design. What are we talking about? First, teaching designers. Is there such a thing as design pedagogy: some strategy, technique or content that might be carried or common across the design fields? What do designers need to know about design, about the practices, research methods, histories and theoretical or philosophical underpinnings of their fields? Can design be reduced to a technique of thought — design thinking — and can that be exported to and applied in other fields?