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Design Education Talks

Lefteris Heretakislinktr.ee

After the very first Design Education Forum by the New Art School in 2019, Design Education Talks podcast was created as a dynamic platform for the exchange of insights and ideas within the realm of art and design education. This initiative sprang from a culmination of nearly a decade of extensive research conducted by Lefteris E. Heretakis MA RCA. His rich background in art, design and education, intertwining academia, industry, and student engagement, laid the foundation for a podcast that goes beyond the conventional boundaries of educational discourse.


At its core,  Design Education Talks podcast functions as an open forum, fostering discussions that delve into the intricate facets of art and design education, unravelling the layers of creativity, and exploring the depths of design thinking in education. 


This podcast stands as a testament to our commitment to addressing the pressing challenges facing contemporary art and design education. Each episode becomes a nexus of exploration, where innovative solutions are sought and shared. The collaborative nature of these discussions reflects a commitment to bridging the gap between theory and practice, academia and industry, and tradition and innovation.


One of the podcast's distinctive features is its role as a valuable resource for skill-building among the new generation of aspiring designers. The episodes serve as an intellectual toolbox, offering practical insights, strategies, and real-world experiences that contribute to the holistic development of creative professionals. Moreover, the podcast serves as a compass, providing clear directions for those interested in reshaping the models for teaching and learning in the dynamic field of design.


As we continue our journey through the Design Education Talks podcast, our aim remains resolute: to inspire, inform, and ignite a transformative dialogue that propels the evolution of art and design education. By fostering an environment of collaboration and innovation, we aspire to contribute to the positive growth and adaptation of educational practices, ensuring that they align seamlessly with the needs and aspirations of the ever-changing creative landscape.

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Episodes

Design Education Talks Ep. 43 - Peny Hay

Get in touch! Dr Penny Hay (FRSA, FHEA) is an artist and educator. Penny is a part-time Reader in Creative Teaching and Learning and Senior Lecturer in Arts Education, School of Education and also Research Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries. Previously Penny was a teacher with responsibility for the arts, advisory teacher for art and lecturer in arts education at Goldsmiths College, the Institute of Education, University of London, Roehampton Institute and the University of the ...

Jan 24, 202117 minSeason 4Ep. 43

Design Education Talks Ep. 42 - Karel Vredenburg

Get in touch! Karel has spent his professional career dealing with design, technology, human affect, cognition, and behaviour primarily through the human interface to technology. His current interests are in advances in design practice, design-based organisational transformation, the innovation ecosystem (design school, business school, university, entrepreneur, and enterprise), and the ways in which technology can extend, optimise, and improve work, play, relationships, education, health, and o...

Jan 12, 202149 minSeason 4Ep. 42

Design Education Talks Ep. 41 - Ben Van Dyke

Get in touch! Benjamin Van Dyke was born in the heat of southern Florida and later moved to the chill of western Michigan. His life, and his intellectual pursuit, is a series of stark contrasts and experiential anomalies. He received an MFA from the Stamps School at the University of Michigan and a BFA from Kendall College of Art & Design. He has been invited to exhibit his work across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East. After a Fulbright Fellowship in The Netherland...

Dec 18, 202025 minSeason 4Ep. 41

Design Education Talks Ep. 40 - Marcello Magalhaes

Get in touch! Marcello Magalhães is founder and chief design officer at Speakeasy – Knowledge Brokers, a brand innovation freelancer global network in 2018. Marcello started his career with a ten-year stint as a marketing and innovation manager for Abbott Laboratories and Unilever in Brazil and Argentina. Then, he moved agency-side into strategy with planning leading roles at networks including Y&R, Lowe, BBH, FCB, Ogilvy and Leo Burnett, before becoming Chief Strategy Officer at Leo Burnett...

Dec 08, 202017 minSeason 4Ep. 40

Design Education Talks Ep. 39 - Kadine James

Get in touch! Kadine is the Global Head of Generative AI Executive Creative Director at Virtual XR studio Artificial Rome. Kadine is the CEO and Artistic Director of The Immersivs KIND. She is listed as one of the Top 10 female metaverse founders and influencers in Web3. Kadine James is a multi-disciplinary creative tech leader, working across ai, digital art, crypto fashion, blockchain, NFT, metaverse production, avatar design & immersive storytelling to invent the next-generation of intera...

Dec 04, 202016 minSeason 4Ep. 39

Design Education Talks Ep. 38 - Joost Roozekrans

Get in touch! Joost Roozekrans has been working as a designer, creative director, and senior design lecturer. Thirty years in the design profession, with a lot of mileage in designing brand identities, and a passion for education. He is from the Netherlands and worked in the United Kingdom (2 years) and China (10 years). Joost worked for nine different design studios, one newspaper (The Guardian in London), four universities, and co-owned two design studios; NLXL in The Hague and SparkyTiger in ...

Nov 25, 202035 minSeason 4Ep. 38

Design Education Talks Ep. 37 - Gonzalo Raineri

Get in touch! Gonzalo Raineri, Designer, Architect, Magister in Environmental Studies and Bioclimatic Architect, candidate for a doctorate in Design. University professor for over 20 years. Final project advisor, product and spatial design studios coordinator and member of the curriculum committee at the Design School at Finis Terrae University. Design researcher, project evaluator, jury in design competitions, as well as senior lecturer and consultant on topics related to sustainable design and...

Nov 19, 202040 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 36 - Haluk Mesci

Get in touch! Haluk Mesci has been in advertising his whole life, writing copy, building and selling agencies, teaching in many universities, translating some 14 books on advertising, creativity, and branding into Turkish. He is also the creator of a unique ‘advertising practicum’ that overcomes the weaknesses of three other ‘student-run agency’ models known in the world. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Haluk-Mesci Support the show Since its inception in 2019, Design Education Talks podcast...

Nov 12, 202036 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 35 - Balvir Nandra

Get in touch! Balvir Nandra is currently working with undergraduate students of Architecture at Nottingham Trent University delivering a series of Integrated Design Studies components. His educational experience spans over more than two decades, during which he has been Course Director, Senior Lecturer and Senior Teaching Fellow for Graphic Design and Communication Design disciplines at graduate and post-graduate levels at Birmingham City University, UK. He has more than forty years of experienc...

Oct 28, 202031 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 34 - Jonathan Jewell

Get in touch! Jonathan is an educator working across various disciplines in higher, professional and compulsory education. He teaches, and has taught, in several universities, unions, professional bodies, schools and with the medical Royal Colleges as well as workplaces. His experience and education embraces systems, design and cognitive ergonomics, art and the social and natural sciences. He has particular interests in axiology, human factors, cognition, measurement and decision sciences, as we...

Oct 22, 202032 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 33 - Adam Paxmam

Get in touch! Adam Paxman has worked as a freelance illustrator since 2008. He has previously worked as an Associate Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University on the Contextualising Practice theory module for first year Graphic Design and Illustration with Animation undergraduates. Adam has taught at Hugh Baird College in Bootle since 2009. He initially taught mostly on the Art and Design and Graphic Arts programmes at Further Education level. He has been a part of the Graphic Arts programm...

Oct 15, 202040 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 32 - Julia Goga Cook

Get in touch! Dr. Juliana Goga-Cooke: Julia is an academic, journalist, design thinker and entrepreneur. She leads the Academy of Design Thinking, helping organisations create innovation skills and capabilities, and adopt a design led culture. Her career started in academia, with a Ph.D in Linguistics, and moved to journalism, working for the BBC for 16 years as a broadcaster, producer, editor and senior leader. After a gap year of study in Design Thinking Innovation and Entrepreneurship at CSM ...

Oct 08, 202030 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 31 - Anastasios Maragiannis

Get in touch! A designer, academic and researcher, Dr Anastasios Maragiannis has devoted his career to exploring and understanding the fundamentals of design diversity and inclusion, within the context of the digital landscape and a multidisciplinary approach to design thinking. Anastasios is currently the Deputy Head School of Design at the University of Greenwich, London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. He is the leading the d+iD – diversity + inclusivity by Design Research Lab w...

Oct 01, 202042 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 30 - Audrone Drungilaite

Get in touch! Audrone Drungilaite is a Creative Director at EMKO - a place where simply smart design meets its seekers and creators. She’s a former Executive Director of the Lithuanian Design Forum which is a non-governmental design promotion organization bridging designers with the industry. Audrone had been responsible for the management of Design Week Lithuania, the biggest design festival in the Baltics happening from 2006 in six cities at the same time. A graduate of Vilnius Academy of Arts...

Sep 23, 202020 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 29 - Patrick Morgan

Get in touch! Patrick Morgan: Trained at the Royal College of Art, Patrick has worked as a commercial artist for over 20 years receiving commissions from famous designers and exclusive patrons; Yves Saint Laurent, Tom Ford, Dior, Fendi, The Royal Academy of Arts, The London Olympics, and was commissioned to do a portrait of US Vogue Creative Director Grace Coddington. Major works created in collaboration with Tom Ford for the English National Ballet, Ballet Russe’s 'The Firebird', which was then...

Sep 17, 202027 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 28 - Britt Möricke

Get in touch! From a very young age, Britt Möricke has loved the look of letters. When she was 12 years old, the book ‘Writing, Illuminating and Lettering’ by Edward Johnston taught her the essential principles of calligraphy. Eventually her passion for letters led her to the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, where she graduated from the department Typographic Design in 2002. She did her internship at Penguin Putnam Inc., in NYC (USA). She also finished the Master Type & Media in 2003 and i...

Sep 10, 202023 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 27 - Oded Ezer

Get in touch! Oded Ezer, B.Des, Senior Lecturer, Graphic Design Department, Holon Institute of Technology Typography is a central part of graphic design: creating and organising letters, words, sentences and simple and complicated texts in a given format. My professional work has many facets, and all of them, one way or another, are connected with words. Consulting on Complex Typographic Design Visual editorial planning and art direction for magazines, newspapers and books. These products tend t...

Aug 31, 202028 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 26 - Dan Wong

Get in touch! Dan Wong is Professor of Web Design in the Communication Design Department at New York City College of Technology, CUNY since 2008. Professor Wong holds a Masters of Fine Art degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art, a four-year AOCA degree from the Ontario College of Art and Design and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto, with focused studies on behavioural cognitive and physiological psychology. Prof. Wong is co-founder and executive director of Design Incubation sin...

Aug 06, 202030 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 25 - Pete Bella

Get in touch! I am a creative, an artist, a designer, and a design educator. Currently I am an Assistant Professor of Art and Graphic Design at the University of Central Arkansas (UCA), creator and host of the DESIGN DEDUX™ Podcast, and founder of Twist Creative Studio ™ and creative director with Dave Creek Media. I have earned my MFA in Design from Savannah College of Art and Design , an MS in Marketing, Communication, and Information Technology from Rochester Institute of Technology, and I ha...

Jul 30, 20201 hr 2 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 24 - Robin Landa

Get in touch! Robin Landa is a Distinguished Professor in the Michael Graves College of Kean University. She has written over twenty books about advertising, graphic design, branding, personal branding, creativity, and drawing, including Advertising by Design, 3rd ed., Graphic Design Solutions, 6th ed., and Nimble: Thinking Creatively in The Digital Age. She has won numerous awards for her design, writing, and research, including awards from the National Society of Arts and Letters and the Natio...

Jul 23, 202017 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 23 - Volodymyr Stasenko

Get in touch! Volodymyr Stasenko PhD, Professor, Head of Department of Graphic design and art of the book, Ukrainian academy of printing Education: Lviv School of Applied Arts, (1991); Ukrainian Academy of Printing, Graphics (1996); Lviv Academy of Arts, graduate of the school (2000). Internship: Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland, 2003); Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University (UKSW) (Warsaw, Poland, 2018). Area of professional implementation: visual art, easel painting, graphics, book illust...

Jul 16, 202019 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 22 - Christer Hedberg

Get in touch! Christer helps teams and companies embrace change, curiosity and collaboration, and has supported companies like Volvo, Husqvarna, City of Gothenburg, Gothenburg Symphonics and Mölnlycke Health Care to solve complex creative challenges and innovate through engaging workshops and design sprints. Christer is also a course director at Yrgo in Gothenburg and Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm where he lectures on creativity and teamwork. https://andfriends.se http://www.christ...

Jul 10, 202019 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 21 - Jaygo Bloom

Get in touch! Jaygo Bloom is the Program Leader for British Design programs, BA Graphic Design and BA Illustration located at the British School of Creative Arts in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The school provides a British design education experience for Latin American students and is accredited by The University of Hertfordshire. Since 2007 Jaygo has developed meaningful and relevant design teaching methods for specialist Art institutes across the UK, with a commitment towards scholarship and a track re...

Jul 02, 202040 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 20 - John Spencer

Get in touch! Life and times - John Spencer Award-winning creative director and graphic designer Waving the flag for instinct and imagination Author of Time Flies When You're Having Fun, an A to Z of idiosyncratic letters Coming soon, my new book There’s no bullsh*t like design bullsh*t. Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Member of the International Society of Typographic Designers Offthetopofmyhead - http://offthetopofmyhead.co.uk/ We’re creatively led but all our work is underpinned by a sou...

Jun 26, 202023 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 19 - Rama Gheerawo

Get in touch! Rama Gheerawo is an international and inspirational figure within design. He is a serial innovator in the fields of Inclusive Design, Design Thinking and Creative Leadership having personally led over 100 projects working internationally with governments, business, academia and the third sector. He won a ‘Hall of Fame’ award for his work at the Design Week Awards in 2019 and was named a 2018 Creative Leaders by Creative Review alongside Paul Smith and Björk, Empathy is at the heart...

Jun 19, 202029 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 18 - Natalia Delgado

Get in touch! Graphic designer and educator with more than 15 years of experience in her field, Natalia has a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Communication Design and a master’s degree in Science and Arts for Design from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, and a Ph.D. in Arts Education from the University of Victoria. Natalia has shared her original design process and vision in conferences and workshops around the world, including Mexico, Canada, Finland, Ghana, Egypt, Ecuador and Argentina. He...

Jun 13, 202039 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 17 - Laze Tripkov

Get in touch! Laze Tripkov gained his MA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (graphic design department) at 2002. The same year he began his post-master studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland at the department of Multimedia and Design. In 2003 as a Fulbright PhD scholar initiates a research related to the role of the symbols and iconography of the Balkan region. His works have been shown at 5 solo and more than 50 group exhibitions of graphic design, posters worldwide (Warsaw, Mos...

Jun 06, 202040 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 16 - Louise O'Boyle

Get in touch! Louise O’Boyle is Acting Head of Belfast School of Art, Ulster University and Secretary of GLADHE, the UK-based Group for Learning in Art & Design in Higher Education. Supporting the learning of students both inside and outside of the studio has been a key driver in the evolution of her research, leadership and teaching practices over the past two decades. Her pedagogical research focuses on the construction of value-based praxis in Art and Design Higher Education learning and ...

May 30, 202034 min

Design Education Talks Ep. 15 - Frank Peters

Get in touch! Frank Peters FCSD CDir FIoD Chief Executive of the Chartered Society of Designers and The Register of Chartered Designers Honorary Secretary Prince Philip Designers Prize As Chief Executive of the Chartered Society of Designers (CSD) since 2001, Frank has applied his vast experience of design and commerce to running CSD, developing its strategy and designing and developing international initiatives in support of its members and the profession. Frank trained as an exhibition designe...

May 23, 20201 hr 1 min

Design Education talks ep.14 - Tea Uglow

Get in touch! Tea Uglow has worked at Google for over 12 years, starting Google’s Creative Lab in Europe and, since 2012, building a Creative Lab for the Asia Pacific region in Sydney, Australia. She works with cultural organisations and practitioners to enable artists, writers and performers to look at new ways in which we can use digital technology to augment traditional art, theatre and music. Uglow believes that by experimenting with digital tools at the creative core of culture we can trans...

May 17, 202049 minSeason 1Ep. 14
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