The online community Creative Skills Network has launched. It connects emerging designers and artists to established practitioners, professionals and inspirational educators for live onscreen skills training and guidance.

Founded by designer and educator Sebastian Bergne during the first Covid19 lockdown, both as a support and learning resource for emerging creative entrepreneurs and as a curated platform for established creatives to offer the benefit of their experience through the live online medium we have become so familiar with.

Within an expanding creative industry people have less traditional career paths with spontaneous needs and desires to learn new skills and be supported by experts in real time. There is therefore an increasing demand from creatives who are beyond or outside the traditional education system.

The hope is that the Creative Skills Network becomes a way of linking creative practitioners of all generations and responds to these needs in a way that compliments regular education channels and values the knowledge and experience of established practitioners in the various creative fields.

The Creative Skills Network was put on hold for further development in February of 2022