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The Future of Design Education: Balancing Art, Skills, and Industry Demands

Thrilled to join George Karayanes on Branding for Greeks! 🎙️ We explored the future of design education, the vital role of art, & equipping students for a dynamic industry. Listen for key insights! 🔗 https://heretakis.medium.com/the-future-of-design-education-balancing-art-skills-and-industry-demands-0d507e86eeba #DesignEducation #Branding

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Why Your Support Matters: Keeping Design Education Talks Alive

If you’ve found value in The New Art School or the Design Education Talks podcast, if a conversation made you think differently, an episode inspired your path, or a resource helped you in your creative journey — I want to say thank you for being part of this growing community. These projects are a labour of love. Every interview, episode, and post is created to share knowledge, amplify voices…

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To Teach is to Serve: Why Educators Must Learn Pedagogy Before They Teach

We are not teaching to hear the sound of our voice, we are dedicating a service for the benefit of our students. By Lefteris Heretakis Inspired by the writings and spirit of John Ruskin “Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.” John Ruskin In an age that prizes speed and specialism, it has become far too common to assume that mastery of a…

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The Ideal School of John Taylor Gatto

Text is a transcript of a lecture given by our mentor John Taylor Gatto with some explanations The most famous discipline in Western tradition is that of Jesus Christ. That’s true today, and it was true 1,500 years ago. And the most famous disciples are His twelve apostles. What did Christ’s model of educational discipline look like? Well, attendance wasn’t mandatory for one thing. Christ…

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Professor Phil Cleaver Episode 100– A Full-Circle Celebration

Welcome to the 100th episode of the Design Education Talks podcast by The New Art School—a momentous milestone in our journey of exploring design, creativity, and education with some of the world’s most inspiring voices. For this landmark edition, we welcomed back our very first guest: the brilliant and unapologetically authentic Professor Phil Cleaver. Phil’s return is not just a nostalgic nod;…

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“Rearrange listen and you get silent.” In our new Design Education Talks episode, I chat with Ingmar Thies on the power of listening, reflection, and what it means to truly teach design.

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The Future of Design Education: Challenges, AI, and the Role of Practice

a conversation with Ari Chand Introduction Design education is at a crossroads. The past decade has seen seismic shifts in the way we teach, learn, and practice design. Economic pressures, evolving pedagogical methods, and the rise of AI are reshaping how students engage with their education. I recently had the pleasure of discussing these changes with Ari Chand, a lecturer in Illustration and…

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Design Education Insights: A Conversation with Ingmar Thies 

In a recent episode of *Design Education Talks* from The New Art School, Lefteris sat down with Ingmar Thies—designer, educator, and author—to explore his journey in graphic design, his philosophies on teaching, and the evolving landscape of design education. Here’s what we learned.  From Hamburg to Vienna: A Global Design Journey  Born in Hamburg, Thies studied Graphic Design in Brunswick…

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“Every morning, I meet a student who’s more intelligent than I am. That’s the beauty of working in design education.” — Christian Guellerin

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The Visual Communicator turned 12 today!

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3rd Virtual Design Education

3rd Virtual Design Education

We would like to invite you to the 3rd Virtual Design Education forum on the 11th and the 12th of November 2021 The theme for this year’s Design Education Forum is: “Creativity without a computer, education in the age of Artificial Intelligence.” Participations can take the form of a 15-20 minute video presentation, a workshop, a panel or even a keynote speech. If you wish to become a speaker…

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Design Education Talks Ep. 50 - Kristina Lamour Sansone

Design Education Talks Ep. 50 – Kristina Lamour Sansone

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…

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Design Education Talks Ep. 49 - Tash Willcocks

Design Education Talks Ep. 49 – Tash Willcocks

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…

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Design Education Talks Ep. 48 - Chris Murphy

Design Education Talks Ep. 48 – Chris Murphy

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…

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Design Education Talks Ep. 47 - Lee-Sean Huang

Design Education Talks Ep. 47 – Lee-Sean Huang

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.…

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Design Education Talks Ep. 46 - William Mazza

Design Education Talks Ep. 46 – William Mazza

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…