About
Created Futures is a company about actually making things, in a moment when making is easy to simulate. We give people the teaching, the tools and the evidence of their own progress.
Founder
Rob has worked in art and design for 26 years, 23 of them teaching. He led the Art Academy in London, a charity with 3,500 students, 150 tutors and degrees accredited by the Open University.
He is an artist and the author of The Artist's Manual, has designed for Parker Pen and Xiaomi, made a public artwork in Shenzhen, and speaks internationally on creativity and education.
Advisers
The Social Venturer
Trust-led value creation, technology deployed mindfully, and causes worth backing. Richard has spent 25 years in private equity and held more than 50 board roles since 2010, many as Chair, including the Group Executive of the John Lewis Partnership.
Advisers are named here with their agreement.
Our story
With support from the Hg Foundation, we studied how AI, access and industry demand are reshaping creative careers. The answer pointed to hybrid, affordable learning that reaches people wherever they are. Created Futures is how we are building it, one discipline at a time.
Not a choice between them. We teach the fundamentals and the tools side by side.
Online first, priced for each country, and free for young people where we can.
Used to help people practise and improve, never to replace their own work or judgement.
Every course, session and workshop shows the progress made.