Design Education Talks

Lefteris Heretakis

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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Design Education Talks Ep. 38 - Joost Roozekrans

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11/25/20 • 34 min

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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 Shanghai. Designing the award-winning visual identity for the Dutch national police force was his first project at Studio Dumbar in 1992.
Joost is regularly giving design lectures and workshops. At universities, conferences, and companies in the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Lithuania, P.R. China, South Korea, Hong Kong, Australia, and the USA.
In the summer of 2020, he published a design theory book: How to Create Better Ideas - Connecting the Left and Right Brain in the Design Process. The book divides in two parts. The first part explains the design process as a total, putting ideation in the middle. The second part teaches six methods to create design ideas for young designers and professionals.
Company website Holland: https://www.joostroozekrans.com
Company website China: https://www.sparkytiger.com
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Since its inception in 2019, Design Education Talks podcast has served 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 Heretakis. His rich background, intertwining academia, industry, and student engagement, laid the foundation for a podcast that goes beyond the conventional boundaries of educational discourse.
See all of our work on on https://linktr.ee/thenewartschool
Follow us on twitter at @newartschool
Read our latest articles at https://newartschool.education/
and https://heretakis.medium.com/
Equipment used to produce the podcast:
Rodcaster pro II
Rode NT1 5th generation
Elgato Low profile Microphone Arm
Monster Prolink Studio Pro microphone cable
The rest of the equipment is here 👉https://kit.co/heretakis/podcasting

Design Education Talks Ep. 2 - Simon Dixon

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02/26/20 • 19 min

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A deep insight into design and designers by Simon Dixon of Dixon Baxi
Simon Dixon is a co-founder of DixonBaxi. He has 25 years of international experience having opened studios in the North of England, London [twice], New York and San Francisco. Through DixonBaxi, Simon has forged a reputation as one of the leading practitioners of branding, design and their roles across all platforms. His work for brands including Netflix, Eurosport, Samsung, Sony, AC Milan, Fox, The Premier League, The IOC, Formula E and Amazon reaching a global audience of over three billion people. DixonBaxi.com
#designeducation #graphicdesign #designschool #teaching #teachingdesign #teachingart #artstudent #artteacher #artschool #designschool #photography #illustration #artpodcast #graphicdesigneducation #university #education #policy #drawing #painting #education #des

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Design Education Talks ep. 64 - Eloise Parrack

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02/14/22 • 23 min

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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 Design Pathway.
From 2007, she co-managed Defalign, a collaborative studio and type foundry, with David Millhouse, davidmillhouse.com
In 2018 Eloïse graduated from the Expert class Type design at the Plantin Institute for Typography in Antwerp, Belgium.
Eloïse was a speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp (with Eli Castellanos). The topic of that talk, Mixed Matrices, is a revival project of Hendrik van den Keere's Small Pica Roman (1578) at the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp undertaken as a group project while studying at the Plantin Institute of Typography.
Fellow members of this project are Elí Castellanos cocijotype.com, Moritz Kleinsorge identity-letters.com, Álvaro Franca alvarofran.ca and Krassen Krestev www.plantininstitute.be/typedesign. The course is taught be Dr Frank E Blokland, founder of Dutch Type Library dutchtypelibrary.nl
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Eloiseparrack.com
LinkedIn Eloise parrack
Twitter @eloise_c_p

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Design Education Talks Ep. 51 - Yeohyun Ahn

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06/04/21 • 13 min

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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 research papers by Leonardo, EVA London, and IEEE VIS Arts. It has presented at ISEA, AIGA, SEGD, Alicante Design Education Forum in Spain, TypeCon, etc. Her new project, Social Homelessness on US Campuses, is a multidisciplinary art and design project to bring awareness of Asian female faculty in America. Having immigrated as a designer in America brings her to be aware of social inequity, discrimination, and marginality. She currently explores generative self-portrait photographs for social homelessness being isolated and marginalized in professional areas of American society. It has presented through SIGGRAPH, ISEA, ARTECH, IEEE GEM, etc. She received Graduate Fellowship from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2009. She was a freelance graphic artist in the New York Times Magazine. She taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago State University, and Valparaiso University. Now she is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Interaction Design at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
http://yeoahn.com/designandchange/pages/about/

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Design Education Talks Ep. 27 - Oded Ezer

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08/31/20 • 27 min

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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 to include various content and wording which require large scale thinking and meticulous typographic planning. Among the studio’s clients: Little Brown and Co., Globes financial newspaper, Maariv newspaper, Makor Rishon newspaper and Open TBE.
Font Design for Designers
Since 2000 I have been involved in the field of typeface (fonts) design and distribute my fonts independently.
Among my best known Hebrew fonts are: Doo, Rutz, Alchemist, Meoded, Sussita, Na, Ezer Block, Frankrühliah, and many more. Among the clients who use my fonts are leading advertisement and online design companies, daily newspapers and magazines, book publishers, TV channels and many independent designers. Some of my fonts have won excellence awards from the New York Type Directors Club, the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI), as well as the Israeli Ministry of Education Award.
Corporate Fonts for Companies
Custom made, unique fonts that reflect the company’s values are an essential tool of its entire branding, and upon which all the company’s visual and advertising material is based.
Thus, I have created an automatic visual connection between the product, its commercial message and the company. A perfect match between the font and company’s values is a cornerstone
in the process of building a visual concept that will be created according to specific criteria for each company, such as the nature of its products, its potential customers, the purpose of advertising, etc. Among the studio’s exclusive font clients: mSystems, Migdal insurance company, YES, Globes financial newspaper.
Logo and Trademarks Design
Since 2000, I have been involved in the field of Branding in general, with special focus on Logo Design for small and large- sized companies. Among the logos I have designed throughout the years are logos for Bank Hapoalim, Open TBE, YES, Channel 10, Channel 2,

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Design Education Talks Ep. 21 - Jaygo Bloom

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07/02/20 • 39 min

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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 record alongside both industry focused and academic led research. Jaygo has undertaken high profile art and design commissions for private and public cultural institutions, galleries, record labels, artists, nightclubs, festivals and events, his professional practice has included a creative partnership with the rock band 'Franz Ferdinand', live audio visual performance for the seminal British techno act 'Planetary Assault Systems’. Since 2017 he has held the role of Art Director and developed a series of immersive, digital public spaces for the generative gardens at the international Arts and Music Festival 'Festival Forte', Portugal. Jaygo has facilitated workshops and audio visual performances worldwide for festivals including: Pixelazo, Bogota. Pixelache, Helsinki. Machinista, Russia. Ageha, Tokyo. Les Nuits Sonore, Lyon, FutureEverything, Manchester and ADE, Amsterdam. He has presented research and pedagogy as keynotes and workshops for the GuildHE Research ‘CREST The Consortium for Research Excellence’ conference, The Higher Education Academy Teaching and Learning Conference - ‘Inspire’ and alongside the GLAD Group for Learning in Art and Design education conference, ‘Where do we go from here?’. He has been the recipient of a number of awards and coveted commissions including the ALT-W Award and the NEoN Digital Arts Festival artists commission. His projects have received support from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and representation by the British Council, encouraging collaborative learning and engagement with marginalised communities internationally through shared open practice.
Professional portfolio: www.gabba.tv
Instagram: www.instagram.com/graphic_human
School website: https://ebac.art.br/
https://www.yatzer.com/ebac-art-br
Department Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ebac_ba_gdi/

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Design Education talks ep.14 - Tea Uglow

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05/17/20 • 49 min

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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 transform existing cultural practice without losing the tradition, values and intangible qualities that make the arts so valuable. Previous projects include Editions at Play, which won a 2018 Peabody award for digital storytelling, Belongings with SBS, Oracles with Punchdrunk, Amaravati with the British Museum, Hangouts in History (education), Dream40 with the RSC, buildwithchrome.com (LEGO), Web Lab with London's Science Museum, Life in a Day a YT film with Ridley Scott and the YouTube Symphony Orchestra (with the LSO), she is proud of her early involvement in the Art Project (now Google's Cultural Institute) .
Tea speaks on innovation and digital futures around the world. (Her 2015 talk for TEDx Sydney has had over 1.5 million views). In 2018 she was D&AD’s Digital Jury President, and sat on the Cannes Glass Lion jury. She is a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique International), the ABC Arts Advisory Panel, and the Science Gallery Leonardo Group. She has sat on the board of directors for the Biennale of Sydney; D&AD; and AWARD.
Tea studied Fine Art at the Ruskin in Oxford, before completing two further degrees in Book Arts and Design Management at UAL. She spent 6 years in arts publishing and design management for charities as well as in various digital start-ups joining Google in 2006. Prior to Google, Tea worked for the Royal Academy of Arts, the Wellcome Trust, Random House and Christian Aid.
Tea is also a very active and proud parent of two small boys. She lives in Sydney, Australia.
https://teau.me

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Design Education Talks Ep. 57 - Christian Guellerin

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09/22/21 • 41 min

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“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 Atlantique, the President of the French association France Design Education and honorary president of Cumulus, the international association of universities and schools of design, art and media. Christian Guellerin has been the director of L’École de design Nantes Atlantique since 1997. The school’s goal is to produce professionals in creation and innovation dedicated to promoting socio-economic development. The school regards design as an opportunity to generate added value and facilitate progress. Christian Guellerin is the author of many articles on design and teaching in France and abroad and teaches in several schools and universities. He has provided his expertise for the creation of design schools or design centers in France and abroad on behalf of the European Union. Appointed Knight of the National Order of Merit in November 2016.
https://www.lecolededesign.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianguellerin/

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Design Education Talks Ep. 82 - Pawel Pokutycki

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02/01/24 • 21 min

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Pawel Pokutycki (PL/NL) is an interaction designer, researcher and lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague and Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands. In 2005 he initiated early activities of the RFID Lab, later called the AR+RFID Lab, an experimental interdisciplinary platform for research in the application of Augmented Reality (AR) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies in the field of art and design. He is a core member of the Alternative Learning Tank (ALT), a nomadic school and artistic organization that focuses on research, creation and implementation of didactical programs on progressive and radical fields of knowledge which are often neglected by educational institutions. His recent projects focus on exploring relationships between new media theory, political, social, cultural and environmental studies by concept development and prototyping for interactive media. He believes in a methodology of design based on his own, peculiar interpretation of the Black Box Theory presented at a TEDx event in 2012. Currently he is conducting multidisciplinary research on "Humane Technology for the Global South: Ethics of Interaction Design in the (post)Colonial Context”, besides Europe frequently lecturing and giving masterclasses in such countries as Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, India and China. In 2022 he received the Impact: Climate Award from ITAC (International Teaching Artists Collaborative) for educational work with youth on environmental issues based on experimental use of new digital technologies. He is also a board member of ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts), advisor for 'Digital Culture' in the Creative Industries Fund NL (Stimuleringsfonds) and a nominator to the Prins Claus Award.

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Design Education Talks - Ellen Lupton on the Evolution of Design Thinking and Inclusive Education

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08/31/24 • 26 min

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Discover the transformative shifts in design education with Ellen Lupton, the esteemed author of "Thinking with Type." Ellen joins us to illuminate the past two decades of design thinking evolution and the profound impact of inclusivity and diverse typographic traditions in shaping design education. She passionately shares the necessity for hands-on, process-oriented teaching methods and the importance of international students bringing their cultural identities to the design table. Her journey from student to teacher unveils the influential mentors who helped shape her approach to education, preparing a new generation to navigate the practical applications of design with innovation and creativity.
This episode is a deep dive into the enduring challenges and fresh innovations within the realm of design education, as we dissect the core visual design principles that remain crucial despite technological advancements. Ellen Lupton emphasizes the need for a design history and theory curriculum enriched by a variety of perspectives, addressing the critical issues of accessibility and cost within the educational structure. We engage in a thought-provoking conversation about how to craft a design program that fosters community involvement and experiential learning. From tackling societal needs like the housing crisis to encouraging students to draw inspiration from history and other cultures, this discussion with Ellen is an inspiring, enlightening journey that will ignite your passion for design and its capacity to change the world.
Ellen Lupton is a designer, writer, and educator. The all-new edition of her bestselling book Thinking with Type launched in March 2024. Other books include Design Is Storytelling, Graphic Design Thinking, Health Design Thinking, and Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers. She teaches in the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (MICA), where she serves as the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair. She is Curator Emerita at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, where her exhibitions included Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master and The Senses: Design Beyond Vision.

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How many episodes does Design Education Talks have?

Design Education Talks currently has 97 episodes available.

What topics does Design Education Talks cover?

The podcast is about Art, Visual Arts, School, Future, Design, Drawing, Podcasts, Education and Arts.

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The episode title 'Design Education Talks Ep. 78 - Martin Salisbury' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Design Education Talks is 36 minutes.

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Episodes of Design Education Talks are typically released every 12 days, 17 hours.

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The first episode of Design Education Talks was released on Feb 24, 2020.

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This is an excellent and informative podcast