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Design Education TalksAri Chand: The Future of Design Education: Challenges, AI, and the Role of PracticeGet in touch!Dr Ari Chand, Lecturer in Illustration and Animation, UniSA Creative, University of South Australia.Ari is a Designer/Illustrator and practice-based design researcher, Lecturer in Illustration and Animation at UniSA Creative at the University of South Australia, Australia, and soon to be Adelaide University launching in 2026. He teaches into the only combined Illustration and Animation Degree in Australia. Primarily teaching Illustration and Animation theory and practice, with a focus on how visual communication and illustration can help transform and communicate across biodiversity and science, education, histories and...2025-06-2925 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Insights: A Conversation with Ingmar ThiesGet in touch!Get in touch!Born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, Sven Ingmar Thies studied graphic design at Braunschweig University of Art and completed his final thesis in Tokyo and Yokohama. Since his time at university, he has focused on a holistic design approach that seamlessly connects to other design disciplines, other specialist areas or even to handicrafts. This conviction was intensified further by two professional engagements at Henrion, Ludlow & Schmidt in London, where brands were holistically developed, and at Kitayama Institute in Tokyo, where he learnt about the interplay between architecture an...2025-05-2631 minDesign Education TalksEpisode 100 - Prof. Phil CleaverGet in touch!We are delighted to welcome back Phil Cleaver for this landmark 100th episode. A distinguished and multi award-winning figure in the world of graphic design, Phil has long been recognised as one of the field’s true heavyweights. A protégé of Anthony Froshaug, Phil refined his design and typographic expertise under the guidance of Alan Fletcher at Pentagram, Wim Crouwel at TD in the Netherlands, and Michael Wolff at Wolff Olins.In 1984, he was appointed Creative Director of Branding at Allied International Designers. Just a few years later, in 1987, he founded Clea...2025-05-1044 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 98 - Mike Dempsey RDIGet in touch!After a decade in publishing, Mike formed the highly successful design consultancy Carroll, Dempsey & Thirkell (CDT) in 1979, which he ran for 27 years. In 2007, he left to set up Studio Dempsey. Mike’s awards include the New York Art Director’s Club Silver Cube, the CSD Minerva Award, the Reginald M. Phillips Medal for Postage Stamp Design, ten D&AD Silvers, the coveted Gold award, and in 2012, he received a unique D&AD Black Pencil for the most awarded designer in their 50-year history. He is a member of Alliance Graphic International, a past President of D...2025-04-011h 01Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 95 - Kadine JamesGet in touch!Kadine James is a successful serial entrepreneur and expert in all things web3, digital fashion, nfts/tickens and is cited as a pioneer of the Metaverse. She founded The Immersive KIND in 2016, a Web 3 commerce company, with a mission to bring brands into the metaverse through The Immersive KIND’s extended reality studio specialising in virtual reality, augmented reality and immersive production. She is listed as top 10 web 3 founders (Yahoo Finance) Kadine is ex Ryot, Verizon Media, Accenture. After working across architecture and data visualisation (AEC) producing virtual tours and immersive worlds for the bu...2025-03-0124 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 94 - Tom LynhamGet in touch!Tom Lynham is a writer and creative director who helps organisations around the world to communicate better. He works with startups, design consultancies, galleries, museums and companies such as Lego, IKEA, Jumeirah Hotels and Thomas Heatherwick Architects. Collaborating with NB Studio in London he has just written a biography of the legendary brand guru Michael Wolff who co-founded Wolff Olins. You can see Tom’s portfolio at https://tomlynham.wordpress.com or contact him via LinkedIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-lynham-a6044517/ Support the showSince its inception in 2...2025-01-3143 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Special: Cheryl D. Miller: Decolonising Graphic DesignGet in touch!Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller is the leading voice for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the graphic design industry. Holmes-Miller is an American BIPOC communications designer, writer, artist, activist, and theologian, best known as a design justice advocate and decolonizing historian. She lectures widely, and in 2023-24 was Professor of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Communication Design, ArtCenter College of Design; Former Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Design at the University of Texas at Austin School of Design and Creative Technologies; lecturer at Howard University; and adjunct at the University of Connecticut. Holmes-Miller has been awarded the...2025-01-2129 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 93 - Paul RogersGet in touch!Paul Rogers has worked as a free lance illustrator and designer since his graduation from Art Center College of Design in 1980. His clients include the Jazz at Lincoln Center, Los Angeles County MTA, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, e National Infantry Museum, e New York Times, e New Yorker, NIKE, Pixar Pictures, Pentagram, the Playboy Jazz Festival, Salesforce, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Warner Bros. Studios.He has designed five postage stamps for the United States Postal Service and official posters for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Super Bowl...2025-01-0134 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 92 - Adrian ShaughnessyGet in touch!Adrian Shaughnessy is a graphic designer, writer, publisher and educator. He has written, designed, edited, art directed and published numerous books on design. He has been interviewed on television and radio, and lectures extensively around the world. He is a tutor in graphic design at the Royal College of Art working on the Visual Communication and Design Products programmes.In 1988, Shaughnessy co-founded the design group Intro, an early pioneer of digital technology in design. He left in 2004 to set up the independent publishing company Unit Editions, in partnership with Tony Brook and...2024-12-0133 minDesign Education TalksEp. 91 - Bradford Hansen-Smith - Observations and reflectionsGet in touch!We recommend that you go over to our youtube channel and watch this particular episode.This is the 4th and final episode in the series. Brad talks more in-depth about his work and how he took his work to the 3d dimension and beyond.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...2024-11-0143 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 90 - Gail AndersonGet in touch!Gail Anderson is an NYC-based designer, educator, and writer. She is Chair of BFA Design and BFA Advertising at the School of Visual Arts and Creative Director at Visual Arts Press. Anderson has served as Senior Art Director at Rolling Stone magazine, Creative Director of Design at SpotCo, and as a designer at The Boston Globe Sunday magazine and Vintage Books. She has taught at SVA for over 30 years and has co-authored 15 books with Steven Heller on design, typography, and illustration.Anderson serves on the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee for the U.S...2024-09-3031 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks - Ellen Lupton on the Evolution of Design Thinking and Inclusive EducationGet in touch!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...2024-09-0126 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 88 - Mitch GoldsteinGet in touch!Mitch Goldstein is a #designer, #artist, #educator, and #author based in upstate New York. He is an Associate #Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, where he teaches in the College of Art and Design. He has written about design education for years, with articles published in Communication Arts, Adobe 99U, and AIGA. He received his BFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design #RiISDI, an MFA in Design/Visual Communications from #VCUArts, and an MFA in Furniture Design from Rochester Institute of Technology.http://mitchgoldstein.comhttps://www.instagram...2024-08-0128 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 87 - Fraser MuggeridgeGet in touch!Fraser Muggeridge is a graphic designer and director of Fraser Muggeridge studio based in London. Throughout a wide range of formats, from artists’ books and exhibition catalogues to posters, marketing material, exhibitions, websites, film titles and music, the studio prioritises artists’ and writers’ content over the imposition of a signature style. By allowing images and texts to sustain their own intent and impact, each project is approached with typographic form and letterform playing a key role in arriving at a sympathetic yet subtly alluring object.Fraser Muggeridge founded and is a tutor at Typ...2024-07-0132 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 86 - David FoldvariGet in touch!David Foldvari is an illustrator and educator living and working in London UK. He has been working in the creative industry since the late 90’s, and his client list includes Nike, Penguin, Random House, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Economist, Financial Times, Island Records, Greenpeace, Save The Children and many others. David's work has appeared weekly in The Guardian & The Observer since 2006, illustrating columns by Charlie Brooker, David Mitchell and Stewart Lee. He is currently Course Leader on the Illustration for Communication BA at Ravensbourne University London.http://www.davidfoldvari.co...2024-05-3137 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 85 - Steven HellerGet in touch!Steven Heller is the co-chair and co-founder with Lita Talarico of the MFA Design: Designer As Entrepreneur program at the School of Visual Arts, NYC. He was an art director of the New York Times for 33 years, Art Director of the Times Book Review for almost 30 of those years and “Visuals” columnist for the Book Review and “Graphic Content” column for the Times’ T-Style. He frequently wrote for Upper and Lower Case, Baseline, Creation, I.D., Graphis and other international design journals. He was a longtime contributor to Print magazine. Today he is a partner in...2024-05-0135 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 84 - Pavel PisklakovGet in touch!Pavel Pisklakov — designer, typographer and educator. Born, lives and works in Chelyabinsk, Russia. Assistant Professor at the South Ural State University.Received a degree in Applied Maths, Pavel Pisklakov deeply engaged in the study of communication design. Specializes in posters, identity, and typography. His works were exhibited all over the world: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Czech Republic, Mexico, Montenegro, Liechtenstein, Iran, Ecuador, South Korea, China, Hungary, Poland, Peru, Estonia, Slovakia, Uruguay, Italy, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Bulgaria, Croatia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Macedonia, USA, Thailand, Spain, Austria, Germany, Finland, Bolivia, Iraq, Japan, Denmark, Serbia, etc. Received severa...2024-04-0133 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 83 - Pontus WärnestålGet in touch!Pontus Wärnestål (he/him) is an award-winning Service Designer and Human-Computer Interaction researcher, with 20 years of work experience in User Experience, Service Design, and Human-Centered AI. He is the author of 40+ scientific papers and books, including "Designing AI-Powered Services" (available at Studentlitteratur in Swedish and English). Pontus is passionate about teaching and an experienced public speaker and writes about design, value, and AI.As Head of AI Design & Innovation at Swedish AI agency eghed, Pontus fuses design strategy with AI, focusing on devising deep, human-centric solutions that not only make se...2024-03-0126 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 82 - Pawel PokutyckiGet in touch!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...2024-02-0121 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 81 - Tony PritchardGet in touch!Tony graduated from Middlesex University in 1984 gaining a first in graphic design. He began work in the studio of his tutor Peter Gill. Eventually this association formalised into the design consultancy Root 2 Design (https://www.root2design.com). The consultancy was involved in many large-scale initiatives such as devising the visual identity and implementation for the London Research Centre. Tony was both an associate of Root 2 Design but also worked in a freelance capacity with clients such as the Icebreaker music ensemble; Decca Records; Andrew Haig Associates and the Institute for the Study of...2024-01-011h 10Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 80 - Alex SoulsbyGet in touch!Alex is an internationally recognised creative education practitioner with an extensive career that stretches over twenty-five years. His work encompasses an extensive portfolio of international education development, creative project management, artist mentoring and educational policy-making.In the UK, Alex played a key role in steering influential campaigns such as ‘Youth Arts Transforms Lives – FACT,’ benefiting from input and direction from the late Sir Ken Robinson as chair. His projects have twice been shortlisted for the UK National Charity Award and contributed to the Royal & Derngate Theatre and Arts Centre’s recognition as the UK’s...2023-11-081h 21Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 79 - Predrag K. NikolicGet in touch!Design Education Talks Ep. 78 - Predrag K. NikolicDr. Predrag K. Nikolic is a Full Professor and Chair of the Graduate User Experience (UX) Design Program at the College For Creative Studies, Detroit, United States. He is an experimental designer, interactive media artist, and digital media expert with a PhD in Digital Media and an MBA. His research focuses on mixed-experiential reality, singularity, human-AI interaction, artificial intelligence emancipation, intelligent interfaces, robot creativity, AI aesthetics, and design for behavioral changes. He mixes immersive virtual worlds, artificial intelligence, and responsive environments to engage audiences...2023-11-021h 21Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 78 - Martin SalisburyGet in touch!I studied for five years in total at art school in the 1970s, Graphic Design and Illustration. At Maidstone College of Art my tutors included Greenaway Medal-winning Gerald Rose and, by contrast, Brian Eno. I worked solely as a freelance illustrator for 15-20 years, across most areas of the field while gradually takin on part-time teaching alongside my practice, eventually taking on Course Leader role for BA Illustration.I was always mystified as to why so little attention was given to children's book illustration and decided to design and take through validation...2023-10-0532 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 77 - Amit PatelGet in touch!With two decades of experience working in design and tech roles across various industries and sectors (from banking, construction, public infrastructure and more), Amit founded a design education academy/training consultancy, Experience Haus, in 2017 after being inspired to help people navigate career paths inside the creative economy. Experience Haus aims to shape the next generation of digital creatives, and to provide the essential skills that will ensure individuals and teams are part of the workforce of the future. His primary role now looks after content and curriculum design, and shaping creative and innovative programmes...2023-09-0824 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 76 - Tim WeaverGet in touch!"Meet Tim Weaver, AKA The Brand Weaver, the ultimate Creative Solutions Activist! With over 14 years in the creative industry, he's not afraid to shake things up and challenge the status quo. Tim's worked with big shot corporate brands like DC Comics, Lucozade, and EasyJet. Now, he's performing a dual role - leading a team of 15 creatives at Interactive Schools, a global independent school storytelling agency AND helping brands to stand out from the crowd as a solo freelancer.Tim's on a mission to inspire the next generation of creatives, because let's face...2023-04-0629 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 75 - Lisa WinstanleyGet in touch!Lisa Winstanley is an Assistant Professor in the School of Art Design and Media. For the past decade she worked internationally as a design educator, however her academic career is also underpinned by over 20 years of commercial experience; working in the UK as a creative practitioner and design consultant.As a visual communicator, Lisa’s work has won many prestigious design awards including, 3 A’ Design Awards 2020, a Platinum Award at the annual Spark Design Awards 2020 and her branding work has been placed in the top 25 International Graphic Designs of both 2019 and 2020 in the...2023-03-0241 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 74 - Cal SwannGet in touch!Cal Swann attended art school in his hometown at Leicester College of Art in 1951. Specialising in typography under Tom Westley for the last three years, he gained the National Diploma in Design (Typography) and Full Tech C&G in Typographic Design in 1956. RAF National Service followed, and then quick career moves in print design, a couple of advertising agencies and eventually lecturing. Job chasing took him to London and elsewhere around UK. He produced his first book Techniques of Typography in 1969 while lecturing at Manchester College of Art and Design. An interest i...2023-02-021h 11Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 73 - Emanuel BarbosaGet in touch!Emanuel Barbosa is a designer, educator (Adjunct Professor and International coordinator at ESAD College of Art and Design) and researcher from Porto, Portugal. From 2012 to 2016 was creative director of Casa International magazine (Beijing). Founder and President of ACLC - Portuguese-Chinese Cultural Association, later known as ACPT – Portuguese Cultural Association. Curator and promotor of design and creativity events in Porto, Matosinhos, Águeda, Lisbon, Berlin, London, Ludwigsbourg, Beijing, Macau, Zhuhai, Zagreb and Ho Chi Minh. Board Member of Porto Design Biennale 2019, Juri Member of HOMI Asia Design Award - Milan Design Week 2019, Juri member of C-IDEA Des...2023-01-1226 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 72 - Prof. Ting ChawchenGet 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 contemporary society achieved through interdisciplinary collaboration. He is the funding person of the successful global exchange initiative the De...2022-12-0541 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 71 - Prof. Taha DuriGet 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 Interior Design (University of Sharjah and the New York Institute of Technology). His appointment at NYIT was as Associate Professor...2022-11-0325 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 70 - Oscar DiazGet 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/OscarDiazStudioInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/oscardiazstudioWebsite: http://www.oscar-diaz.netBio: http://www.oscar-diaz.net/about-3Support the showSince its inception in 2019, Design Education Talks podcast has served as a dynamic platform for the exchange of insights a...2022-10-0334 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 69 - Shalini PrasadGet 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, fuelling her overall nebulous, no man's lands, trans-disciplinary artistic ideology (that she has finally made peace with! :)...2022-09-0734 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks ep. 68 - Justus TheinertGet 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 Stuttgart where he was in charge of the development and establishment of the “Master of European Design” program and project manager within the design network “Four Motors for Euro...2022-07-0856 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 67 – Tony EdissonGet 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 with QAA Tony works periodically on UK and international Further and Higher Education projects. His consultancy and research focus on developing new ways...2022-06-0931 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks ep. 66 - Bradford Hansen-SmithGet 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 with teachers, presenting internationally a new approach to geometry and mathematics, a...2022-05-081h 37Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks ep. 65 - Andi ArmitageGet 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 and PedagogyThis project sets out to analyse past strategic innovations in art and design education with a view to informing current...2022-03-0119 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks ep. 64 - Eloise ParrackGet 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 Design Pathway. From 2007, she co-managed Defalign, a collaborative studio and type foundry, wit...2022-02-1423 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks ep. 63 - Kenan ZekicGet 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 a Fulbright scholar in the US. His academic and professional focus has been on design and technology relationships and practices in...2022-01-2434 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks ep. 62 - Bradford Hansen-SmithGet 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 grade through college level, working with teachers, presenting internationally a...2022-01-032h 43Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks ep. 61 - Keith KitzGet 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/academics/faculty/k/i/keith-kitzlinkedin.com/in/keithkitztypographicposters.com/keith-kitz-designfacebook.com/keithkitzSupport the...2021-12-1519 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks ep. 60 - Lia VilahurGet 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 congress and teaches workshops for different design faculties in Latin America, Asia and Europe. From 2004 to 2014 she worked as a teacher at the IED (European Institute...2021-12-0421 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks ep. 59 - Andrew BrewertonGet 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 to the Cultural Learning Alliance. He has lectured and published widely internationally and was Distinguished Professor of Shanghai Academy of Fine...2021-10-2259 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks ep. 58 - Gizem AytaçGet 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 ProjeTasarlaTR in 2002 with four designer friends and organised amateur design exhibitions in Istanbul. She worked as project manager of Istanbul Design Week in 2005-2007 for DDF. She crea...2021-10-1125 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 57 - Christian GuellerinGet 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 Atlantique, the President of the French association France Design Education and honorary president of Cumulus, the interna...2021-09-2241 minDesign Education TalksDesign Education Talks ep. 56 - Eduardo MartresGet 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 Chinese government to foreign experts who have made major contributions to the economic and social development of Chi...2021-09-0517 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks ep. 55 - Tommaso MaggioGet 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), Assumption University of Thailand, BA, in Product Design. Course coordinator for a Master in Business Innovation and Design Thinking Workshops at Bangkok...2021-07-2816 min
Design Education TalksEcuador Poster Bienal Special- Christopher ScottGet 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 nationality.https://ecuadorposterbienal.com/Support the showSince its inception in 2019, Design Education Talks podcast has...2021-07-2739 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 54 - Timothy SamaraGet 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. Samara is a frequent lecturer and contributor to design publications both in the U.S. and abroad. He has written ten books on...2021-07-121h 05
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks ep. 53 - Jennifer WhittyGet 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 and diverse, rooted in social and environmental justice. Reimagining mindsets, models, and systems for...2021-06-1732 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 52 - Alexia MathieuGet 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. She also created digital storytelling platforms for brands and worked on international advertising campaigns at Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Boulder, Colorado, and London. Since September 2017, Alexia...2021-06-1521 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 51 - Yeohyun AhnGet 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 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 ne...2021-06-0413 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 50 - Kristina Lamour SansoneGet 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 students access content, demonstrate knowledge, and construct meaning using a broader set of tools. To help educators develop and enhance communication...2021-05-1723 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 49 - Tash WillcocksGet 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 on the Global Academic Board Her most recent step is into SNOOK, a company...2021-05-0620 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 48 - Chris MurphyGet 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 for design-focused entrepreneurs who are designing and building the businesses of tomorrow. The author of num...2021-04-2131 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 47 - Lee-Sean HuangGet 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-huanghttps://leesean.netSupport the showSince its inception in 2019, Design Education Talks podcast has served as a dynamic platform for the exchange of insights and ideas...2021-04-2115 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 46 - William MazzaGet 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 direction, design, lifestyle shoots, corporate and event planning for international companies such as Salvatore Ferragamo, Marchesi de Frescobaldi Wines, and Schonhuber Franchi to name...2021-03-2228 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 45 - Sudebi ThakurataGet 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-national cross-cultural leadership programme curated by Mekong Cultural Hub and British Council. A global UNLEASH talent, mentor of many global innovation programmes, Su...2021-03-0236 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 44 - Jan EckertGet 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 Applied Sciences in Stuttgart and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Pari...2021-02-1123 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 43 - Peny HayGet 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 West of England.Penny has worked extensively in arts education across the UK and co-ordinated...2021-01-2417 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 42 - Karel VredenburgGet 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 overall fulfilment.He is director of design at IBM and responsible for IBM’s global design leadership as well as its global academic programs and serves as the he...2021-01-1249 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 41 - Ben Van DykeGet 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 Netherlands and a tenured faculty position at the University at Buffalo, Van Dyke...2020-12-1824 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 40 - Marcello MagalhaesGet 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 Chicago in 2016. He also made time for his own ventures, being a partner to London-based innovation brand strategy boutique BrandThinkTank, co-founder of...2020-12-0816 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 39 - Kadine JamesGet 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 interactive experiences for web.3. For the last 10 years, Kadine has been pioneering new forms of digital content, leading multi-cultural...2020-12-0416 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 38 - Joost RoozekransGet 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 Shanghai. Designing the award-winning visual identity for the Dutch national police force was his first project...2020-11-2534 min