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I love meeting so many incredible people from different backgrounds and helping them kickstart creative careers.

Founder & Executive Chairman
Global

Andrew Shillington

Andrew Shillington is the Founder of Shillington Education, which he started in 1997 after struggling to find industry-ready designers to hire at his creative studio. During the last 20+ years, Andrew has led Shillington to expand across three continents, revolutionising design education and transforming the lives and careers of 6000+ graduates.

What do you love about design?

There’s no right or wrong answer. Design takes risks.

What inspired you to start Shillington?

When I was running a graphic design studio, I interviewed a lot of fresh graduates who had wonderful attitudes, were driven and had the desire to learn—but they didn’t have the skills the industry requires. So we decided to create a course that was relevant to real-world needs and prepared graduates to land a job.

What do you love most about Shillington?

I love meeting so many incredible people from different backgrounds and helping them kickstart creative careers. I love our Graduate Exhibitions—seeing the students’ joy at their hard-earned achievements, the friendships made, and the end result, all those amazing portfolios of work.

I also love working with and learning from our talented and passionate teachers. I’m a lucky man to have such a wonderful job and have so many inspiring people around me every day.

If you were a typeface what would you be?

Tungsten, by Hoefler & Co. It gets straight to the point.

Andrew Shillington
Founder & Executive Chairman, Global

John Palowski
Head of Course Content, Online

Jack Trotman
Head of Teaching, Online

Clay Allison
Head of Experience, Online

Ella Shillington
Experience Lead, Online

Nick Smith
Course Content Creator & Teacher, Online

Shrenik Ganatra
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

George Simkin
Lead Teacher, Online

Dan Wilson
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

Mags Straatman
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

Alessia Mazzarella
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

Marco Invernizzi
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

Marssaié Jordan
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

Michelle Smalley
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

Olivia Chen
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

Nathan Millard
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

Simon Wiltshire
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

Elena Passeggi
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

Dave Bird
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

Amy Prus
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

Hilary Archer
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

Femi Coppi
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

Dahlia Ishak
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

Sarah Napier
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

Lucy Kirkwood
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

Spencer Harrison
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

Nick Bailey
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

Emma Clark
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

Carl McBride
Graphic Design Teacher, Online

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