Get in touch! Professor Ting Chawchen is a scholar who play a role in leading Chinese design education into the future in addressing the needs of both local and global community. His knowledge and understating come from his years of pedagogical experience in learning and working abroad, he generates international perspective to better interpret cultural differences and apply to his jobs in daily basis. He’s engagement in design practice focuses on solutions for aging, health and wellbeing in con...
Dec 05, 2022•42 min•Season 6Ep. 72
Get in touch! Prof Duri is a published author, translator, artist, and educator, having taught in Architecture, Interior Design, Health Sciences and the Built Environment and History and Theory of Art and Architecture for twenty years. Prof. Duri practiced architecture and interior design for a decate in New York City with specialization in the design and construction of health facilities and hospitals before being appointed overseas (UAE) to start up programs in Architectural Engineering and In...
Nov 03, 2022•26 min•Season 6Ep. 71
Get in touch! Oscar Diaz is a London based Industrial designer and educator. His work is characterised by a plain, innovative and playful take on everyday objects. He has worked for companies such as Muji, Joseph & Joseph or Hermès designing products and installations. Twitter: https://twitter.com/OscarDiazStudio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oscardiazstudio Website: http://www.oscar-diaz.net Bio: http://www.oscar-diaz.net/about-3 Support the show Since its inception in 2019, Design E...
Oct 03, 2022•35 min
Get in touch! Shalini Prasad is an educator, integrative designer, brand consultant, and graphic artist. She runs her own design practice under DeSha Consulting and teaches visual communication and typography at the College of Art and Design at Lesley University. In addition to her professional and academic roles, she is a classical trained dancer, and actor. She loves traversing the many modalities of the creative arts along with the performing arts and believes that each informs the other, fue...
Sep 07, 2022•35 min
Get in touch! After graduating as Industrial Designer Justus Theinert carried out a one year field inquiry on “Methodology and didactics in European design education”, visiting the leading design schools in Europe. Later he participated as Research Fellow in the project “Design quality of engineer-buildings” at the University Stuttgart, investigating the phenomenon of Gestalt-quality in engineer buildings. He then became an Assistant Professor at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stut...
Jul 07, 2022•56 min
Get in touch! Professor Antony Eddison PFHEA. With a professional lifetime of teaching, management & leadership in Further and Higher Education in the UK and internationally, Tony is Advisor and External Examiner at several universities for innovative post-graduate programmes, as a practitioner he has worked in Architecture, Design and related Creative Industries and as an artist has most recently exhibited his work at The Royal British Society of Sculptors, London. As a Senior Associate wit...
Jun 09, 2022•32 min
Get in touch! Bradford Hansen-Smith spent the first half of his life as a sculptor; then it changed. Inspired by the work of Buckminster Fuller he took ten years to educate himself in geometry and math seeing that it all goes back to the image we draw of the circle. The next thirty-two years he has been exploring folding circles with people interested. Without any degree, and no certification, he taught folding circles in and out of classrooms, from first grade through college level, working wit...
May 08, 2022•1 hr 38 min
Get in touch! Andi is an Academic, Designer and PhD researcher, Andi has twenty years of extensive experience and knowledge of design in the UK HE sector holding positions as Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design, Product, Design Director of Postgraduate Studies Product Design & Management across institutions in Cheshire, Liverpool City Region, and Lancashire. Andi's current research, Redesigning Art and Design Education, Past Present Future: Redefining Approaches in Art and Design Curriculum...
Mar 01, 2022•19 min
Get in touch! Eloïse Parrack was born in Bethesda, USA and graduated with an MA in Sequential Design in 2006 from the University of Brighton. Eloïse has taught extensively within both further and higher art & design education within the UK. She is currently Course Leader of BA(Hons) Graphic Design at the University of Brighton. Prior to this role she taught for ten years on the BA(Hons) Graphic Design at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, developing and leading the Graphic ...
Feb 14, 2022•23 min
Get in touch! Kenan Zekic is a design educator and multidisciplinary designer interested in social impact design. Until July 2021, he worked as a Full Professor at the International University of Sarajevo. Currently, he is starting a nonprofit organization INDI+E (Innovation, Design + Education), and works as an independent design consultant and creative director in a publishing house "Vrijeme". He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo, received his master's degree in the UK, and was ...
Jan 24, 2022•35 min•Season 5Ep. 63
Get in touch! NEW YEARS SPECIAL PODCAST WORKSHOP!!! Bradford Hansen-Smith spent the first half of his life as a sculptor; then it changed. Inspired by the work of Buckminster Fuller he took ten years to educate himself in geometry and math seeing that it all goes back to the image we draw of the circle. The next thirty-two years he has been exploring folding circles with people interested. Without any degree, and no certification, he taught folding circles in and out of classrooms, from first gr...
Jan 03, 2022•2 hr 44 min
Get in touch! Keith Kitz is an artist, designer, and educator living in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the Program Director, Master of Arts in Graphic Design (MAGD), and an Assistant Professor, Graphic Design at Suffolk University. Kitz is also the founder of Keith Kitz Design, a private practice that services clients both nationally and internationally. His award-winning work has been chronicled in periodicals, books, exhibitions throughout the United States, and internationally. suffolk.edu/acad...
Dec 15, 2021•20 min•Season 5Ep. 61
Get in touch! Lia Vilahur Chiaraviglio is currently the Director of International at ERAM College, Girona, and a Graphic Designer. During her professional career she worked as: interior architect, industrial- graphic designer, and managing multidisciplinary teams. She co-founded and managed together with Eric Olivares the design studio, Inlightdesign SCP. As an artist, she works mainly with collage and acrylics and sometimes with watercolour and woodprints. She participates in international cong...
Dec 04, 2021•21 min•Season 5Ep. 60
Get in touch! Andrew Brewerton recently retired as Principal & Chief Executive of Plymouth College of Art and was founding Chair of Governors of Plymouth School of Creative Arts. He has served on numerous national bodies including the National Council of Arts Council England, the Creative Industry Federation’s UK Advisory Council, and was Vice-Chair of the Prime Minister’s Initiative (PMI2) for International Education. He is currently Chair of Trustees of Plymouth Arts Cinema and an Advisor ...
Oct 22, 2021•59 min•Season 5Ep. 59
Get in touch! GİZEM AYTAÇ - Creative Women Entrepreneur - Designer Gizem Aytaç graduated from Bilkent University, Department of Interior Architecture & Environmental Design, she attended Design Culture & Management Program at Istanbul Bilgi University. She is experienced in a variety of areas such as; interior design, design management, concept development and branding. She worked as an interior architect & design manager for 23 years. She started a design collective called ProjeTasa...
Oct 11, 2021•26 min•Season 5Ep. 57
Get in touch! “Design has become a strategic discipline for all the companies which thinks about their future. Innovation is at the heart of all the industrial and commercial problematics and design is the tool for the representation of this innovation. The designers do have nowadays the opportunity to occupy the top strategic positions. The careers of the designers has become a predominant questions for all companies.” Christian Guellerin is the Executive Director of L’École de design Nantes At...
Sep 22, 2021•42 min•Season 5Ep. 57
Get in touch! Eduardo Martres is Associate Professor of Practice in Industrial Design at Xi’an JiaotongLiverpool University, a joint venture between the University of Liverpool from the UK and the Xi’an Jiaotong University of China, located in the city of Suzhou (China). From 2012 to 2017, he has been the Chief Industrial Designer for Changhong Electric, based in Chengdu (China). In 2015 Eduardo was awarded the The People’s Republic of China Friendship Award, the highest recognition given by the...
Sep 05, 2021•17 min•Season 3Ep. 56
Get in touch! Tommaso Maggio is a researcher and practitioner of art and design for education. With an academic experience that goes from early years to adults education. A PhD researcher on alternative Art and Design Education with Plymouth University, and Lecturer in Visual Communications for the dual degree program at Birmingham City University, BIFCA-Wuhan Textile University. Since landed in Thailand, he taught at Chulalongkorn University, BA in Communication Design - print and new media), A...
Jul 28, 2021•16 min•Season 5Ep. 54
Get in touch! The Ecuador Poster Bienal (EPB) is calling for posters, for its competition and accepts designs from all parts of the world. Design students, graphic designers, architecture, artists, photographers and visual communicators in general can participate, regardless of age or nationality. Who can participate? / Who can participate? Design students, graphic designers, architects, artists, photographers and visual communicators in general may participate, regardless of their age or nation...
Jul 27, 2021•40 min•Season 5Ep. 54
Get in touch! Timothy Samara is a New York–based graphic designer and educator whose thirty-year career has focused on visual identity and branding, communication design, and typography. Since 2000, he has split his time between professional practice and academia, defining a highly-respected reputation as an instructor at the School of Visual Arts, Parsons/The New School for Design, Purchase College SUNY, New York University, The University of the Arts, and Fashion Institute of Technology. Mr. S...
Jul 12, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 5Ep. 54
Get in touch! Jennifer Whitty is an educator, researcher, designer, facilitator, and writer with over a decade of global experience in the field of sustainable design systems. She holds multiple roles at Parsons, The New School, New York, as the Coordinator of the BFA Fashion Systems and Society pathway and the coordinator and course lead for the fashion sustainability certificate at the Open Campus. Her work aims to usher in a new era of deep systemic change for global fashion that is expansive...
Jun 17, 2021•32 min•Season 5Ep. 53
Get in touch! Alexia Mathieu is a design strategist and an educator. Her work focuses on design strategy for interactive products and services, merging human-behaviour, cultural and business insights to prototype alternative futures. For the past 7 years, Alexia has led user-research and design strategies for several interactive products at New Deal Design, in San Francisco, working closely with startups, engineers and designers. She helped build numerous brand platforms and product experiences....
Jun 15, 2021•21 min•Season 5Ep. 52
Get in touch! Yeohyun Ahn is a designer, educator, and researcher, integrating creative coding, digital fabrication, and physical interaction into spatial typography and graphic design. Her interdisciplinary typography project, TYPE + CODE Series, has featured through Washington Post, PRINT, New York Times Magazine, Letter Arts Review, Creator’s Project, Designboom.com, etc. It has published in the books, Graphic Design: the Basics, Type on Screen, and Data-Driven Graphic Design, and invited to ...
Jun 04, 2021•14 min•Season 5Ep. 51
Get in touch! We are born with a powerful integrated set of tools and capabilities that help us read the world. The visual is often dominant, critical, logical, relevant and hard-wired. Schooling, however, privileges text by closing the visual (images, colours, symbols, and typestyles) aspects of content off, disintegrating and reducing its status and impact. Graphic design is a field of expertise that integrates pictures and words, using words as visual expression. Graphic design can help stude...
May 17, 2021•24 min•Season 4Ep. 50
Get in touch! Tash has spent over 20 years shaping future change-makers in the creative industry, previously as Programme Leader of the BA and MA Graphic Design course at Salford University then as Director of Masters Europe at Hyper Island working with international students and businesses such as BBC, EY, Unilever & Adidas. A project with the UN developed into a larger brief with two of the students pitching to the UN & at SxSW. Tash was made an Honorary Fellow when she left and sits o...
May 06, 2021•21 min•Season 4Ep. 49
Get in touch! A designer, writer and speaker based in Belfast, Chris is a teacher, but he’s a teacher who’s still on his own learning journey. As a design strategist he’s worked with companies, large and small, driving innovation by drawing on his 30 years of experience working with clients including: Adobe, Electronic Arts (EA) and the BBC. Chris mentors startup founders who are building purpose-driven businesses. This work is underpinned by his own startup, The School of Design, a community fo...
Apr 21, 2021•32 min•Season 4Ep. 48
Get in touch! Lee-Sean Huang is a designer and an educator. He co-founded Foossa, a creative consultancy focused on community-centered design, social innovation, and futurecasting. He teaches courses at New York University, the Parsons School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts. He also hosts the Design Future Now podcast, produced by AIGA, the professional association of design. https://foossa.com/leesean-huang https://leesean.net Support the show Since its inception in 2019, Design Educat...
Apr 21, 2021•15 min•Season 4Ep. 47
Get in touch! Bill Mazza is professor of Critical/Creative thinking for thousands of students and instructors at the European Institute of Design in Florence and Rome, Italy. I have also conducted creative thinking workshops at Harding University/Florence Campus, F.U.A./Florence University of the Arts, Richmond University/Florence Campus, and SACI (College of Arts and Design) and Harvard University. I have extensive experience in unconventional creative marketing, promotional advertising, art di...
Mar 22, 2021•29 min•Season 4Ep. 46
Get in touch! Sudebi Thakurata is a narrative designer, creative facilitator, educator, writer and futurist. She designs experiences, engagement and environment that allow people to think, have dialogue, make their thinking and interaction visible and thus enable them to design their own solutions and narratives using different modes and media. A faculty member at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, for over a decade, Sudebi is also a Creative Facilitator of SEAΔ, a trans-na...
Mar 02, 2021•37 min•Season 4Ep. 45
Get in touch! Jan Eckert is a Design Educator and Researcher at HDK–Valand at Gothenburg University where he currently works as Head of the Design Unit. He holds a PhD in Design Sciences obtained from IUAV University of Venice and an international Master’s Degree in Interior Architectural Design from the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart, the Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Lugano. Before, he studied Interior Architecture at the University of...
Feb 11, 2021•23 min•Season 4Ep. 44
