The Scottish Union for Education. 12 Views on Scottish education Delighted to have my article republished in the Scottish Union for...

re-pub #02 June 2024 Download re-pub #02 A curated collection of articles on design matters from a ‘design essentialist’ perspective. In...

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum's new permanent exhibition, Glasgow - City of Empire is a shameful piece of Social Justice propaganda...

A new collection of essays suggests we break out of the narrow version of ethics being foisted upon architects today. Five Critical...

The ‘social purpose’ university - social engineering by another name. Towards the end of last year, the University of the Arts London...

What’s in a name? Having been somewhat press-ganged into design and ‘self-taught’, I rapidly developed imposter syndrome. It took years...

re-pub #o1 - October 2023 Download Re-pub #01 A curated collection of articles on design matters from a ‘design essentialist’...

Milan Design Week (17 – 23 April), regarded as the world’s most important design fair, has come and gone, but the eco-wailing persists....

A new proposal for the Design & Technology GCSE is indoctrination A proposal to revise the Design and Technology (D&T) GCSE curriculum,...

Five Critical Essays on The Crit, Future Cities Project. The link between criticism and the crit is strong. A crit is a developmental...

The design manifesto is in urgent need of life-saving attention. As we look forward to a better year than the last, we should,...

A Thesis on Communication Design [ 1 ] The old, elite prejudice of the modern era – fear and loathing of the masses – is resurfacing...

A gender bias poster campaign that was not all it was cracked-up to be. To coincide with International Women’s Day (IWD) and Women’s...

The third London Design Biennale (LDB) runs from 1st – 27th June, hosted at the magnificently imposing Somerset House, on the banks of...

Decolonising design: It’s not racism that has led us to celebrate the London tube map or the ‘I “love” New York’ logo. The decolonisation...

Valencia Design Education Forum 2020 This is a short (15 minutes) presentation at the Valencia Design Education Forum on 5 November 2020....

V&A Dundee was a source of civic pride. It’s now being turned into a source of guilt. Dundee, in eastern Scotland, is currently being...

First Things First 2020. The fourth & most hysterical iteration of the original yet? During Lockdown, many typo-graphic and communication...

Now even a world-leading association for professional designers is accused of being institutionally racist. We need to get a grip. AIGA,...

'Social Design' is not fundamental, it is profoundly anti-design. In graphic design’s relatively short history, profound changes have...