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I was talking yesterday to a lecturer at Central St Martins, possibly the leadings Arts College in the country. She was telling me how proud she felt working there, of the tremendous wealth of talented students that that were coming through and how she felt we were producing an astonishing new wave of creativity in British Art, Design and Fashion. And yet, she was frustrated. Because on graduation there was nowhere for this talent to go; no jobs sufficiently demanding of their skills, no challenges that could fully engage their creativity. As an economy we are not making any real use at all of the creative and hence commercial opportunities we have. (more…)