The Journey from Bad to Good Design | Simon Collins | TEDxFuxingPark

Simon Collins explains how constantly being assailed by the bad design that surrounds us all drives him to work ever harder to help people achieve good design and happiness. He cites examples of what’s wrong and right, and shares ideas for how to do better. Simon Collins is a former Dean at Parsons in New York
and creative director at Nike in Asia. He has spoken at
the United Nations in NY and been featured in Forbes,
Business of Fashion, WWD, SCMP, China Daily and The
New York Times.
After working with Nike, Polo and Zegna, he spent seven
years as Dean of the School of Fashion at Parsons where
he helped turn the quietly respected design school
into a global mega-brand. Featured in The Business of
Fashion’s Global 500 and Fast Company Magazine’s 100
Most Creative People in Business. His book“The School
of Fashion”came out in 2014 and he joined the Parsons
Board of Governors. He then chaired the Advisory Board
for Global trend group WGSN and advised WME IMG on
reinventing NYFW. He joined the Advisory Council for
NYU Stern Luxury EMBA and was appointed an Honorary
Ambassador for the China Institute in New York and
Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University.
In 2016 he founded the Fashion Culture Design
Unconference in New York and in 2017 he founded the
global design education platform WeDesign.org
Simon Collins is dedicated to helping brands to create
beautiful solutions and sharing his global design
knowledge. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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