This article investigates the four aspects of designer capitalism , the concept introduced by Canadian art educator, Jan Jagodzinski, and discusses questions presented to art education through this concept. Designer capitalism is the concept encompassing diverse issues associated with our contemporary life such as capitalization of life on the whole as well as the problem of financial capitalism called gambling economy , the aestheticized world of consumer capitalism governed by symbols, control using digital technology and imaging devices, and an issue of forming the selves that control themselves to comply spontaneously with the rule. Based on this analysis of designer capitalism, this article look for questions related to art education, such as transformation of sensation and perception underlying foundation of art education, the relation between art education and designer capitalism, the direction of art and art education within the preconscious governance system, and the problem of captured creativity.