AD Issue 45
Design in Art & Design special issue. This issue is informed by the work of NSEAD's Special Interest Group of the same name, which aims to expand and clarify our understanding of ‘Design’ and its fundamental role in contributing to the scope and purpose of Art & Design education.
Cover image: Summer school students working in B-made – The Bartlett workshops, UCL © Richard Stonehouse (2025)
Poster: Detail of the artwork for costume design at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama © Adam Simpson and The Guildhall School of Music and Drama (2023)
Contents
Interview
Simon Maidment, Dean of Design, and Jayne Knowles, Dean of Art and Performance, University of the Arts London in conversation with Michele Gregson, CEO & General Secretary of NSEAD
Comment
Intelligent design: Using AI to pose problems, not to solve them | Professor Emeritus Gary Granville & Dan China
Resource
Adam Simpson: Becoming an illustrator | Dr Iain Macdonald
Competition and Resource
Engineering: An unseen canvas for art and design | Dr Susan Scurlock MBE
Features
The edges of architectural education | Professor Sara Shafiei
Skills for the planet | Michele Gregson
Trash to Treasure: Design thinking | Canon Marlene Wylie
The essential tension between art and design | Ged Gast
Have we reached the point of no return? | Dr Richard Firth
Design education, architecture and the Trojan Horse | Neil Pinder
Empowering creative thinkers | Trudi Barrow
Revisiting ‘design’ in art and design | Patricia Brown