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BOA added 8 new online courses from Skill Success

BE OPEN Academy has added Disorder by Chris Ashworth, Marvin Scott Jarrett and Adrian Shaughnessy to its Bookshelf. The book traces Ashworth’s ‘Swiss Grit’ graphic-design practice from Ray Gun magazine to recent typographic work, celebrating handmade process, imperfection, found type and creative experimentation as a counterpoint to screen-dependent digital culture.

BE OPEN Academy has added Abundance Not Capital: The Lively Architecture of Anupama Kundoo, edited by Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny and Architekturzentrum Wien, to its Bookshelf. Using Kundoo’s work as a case study, the book explores non-extractivist architecture and shows how local resources, craft knowledge, building skills, climate and technological experimentation can support more responsible ways of designing and building.

BE OPEN Academy has added Observations, Research, and Design by Todd Bracher to its Bookshelf. The first monograph devoted to the American industrial designer brings together more than twenty-five years of work across furniture, product and interior design, showing how observation, research and a science-based approach can turn knowledge and context into practical design solutions.

BOA added 6 video tutorials on Design and Web Design by Photoshop Training Channel

BOA added 6 new online courses in Design from EduCBA

BE OPEN Academy has added Glitches & Glory: The Digitally Rewired Art of David Szauder by David Szauder to its Bookshelf. The book explores how digital errors, fragmented data and machine processes can become artistic material, showing how glitches, distortion and technical accidents can open new visual approaches to memory, identity and technology.

BE OPEN Academy has added How to Speak Machine: A Gentle Introduction to Artificial Intelligence by John Maeda to its Bookshelf. Reissued in 2025 with a new preface, the book offers an accessible guide to how artificial intelligence and machine-learning systems work, encouraging designers and creative professionals to understand their possibilities, limitations and consequences.

BE OPEN Academy has added Not Here, Not Now: Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby to its Bookshelf. The book explores speculative design as a way to question assumptions, imagine alternative realities and use fiction, ambiguity and impossible propositions to expand the boundaries of design thinking.

BOA added 8 video tutorials for Techniques in After Effects by SonduckFilm