Design Education Talks

From MIT to IDEO: Sheng-Hung Lee on the Future of Design and Education

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Get in touch!Sheng-Hung Lee is a designer, engineer, and educator dedicated to advancing human-centered design and systemic service innovation. He is ...

Zines, Books, and Beyond: The Practice of Jac Batey

28 Oct 2025

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Get in touch!I run MA illustration and teach on BA illustration. Also supervise practice-based PhDs. Specialism is in illustration/artistbooks/zines a...

Costume as Sculpture: The Worlds of Gwen van den Eijnde

25 Sep 2025

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Get in touch!Gwen van den Eijnde is a French–Dutch artist and costume designer based in the United States. For the past decade, he has been teaching...

Design Education Talks: Brian Grimwood - The Illustrator Who Rewrote the Rules

27 Aug 2025

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Get in touch!As an illustration educator, few figures stand out as boldly, and as impactfully, as Brian Grimwood. His work is not merely a reflection ...

Design Education Talks Haluk Sicimoğlu: Blending Empathy with Advertising Expertise

31 Jul 2025

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Get in touch!We’re thrilled to welcome Haluk Sicimoğlu, a dynamic strategist, storyteller, and entrepreneur hailing from İzmir. As the founder of ...

AIGA Special: Design Is a Performance... But Who’s Watching?

17 Jul 2025

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Get in touch!Lee-Sean Huang - Co-Executive Director, Learning + ProgramsGiulia Donatello - Design Competitions and Event ManagerThe 2025 AIGA Design C...

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

29 Jun 2025

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Get in touch!Dr Ari Chand, Lecturer in Illustration and Animation, UniSA Creative, University of South Australia.Ari is a Designer/Illustrator and pra...

Design Education Insights: A Conversation with Ingmar Thies 

26 May 2025

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Get in touch!Get in touch!Born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, Sven Ingmar Thies studied graphic design at Braunschweig University of Art and complete...

Episode 100 - Prof. Phil Cleaver

09 May 2025

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Get in touch!We are delighted to welcome back Phil Cleaver for this landmark 100th episode. A distinguished and multi award-winning figure in the worl...

Design Education Talks Ep. 97 - Liza D

30 Apr 2025

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Get in touch!Liza Deyrmenjian is the founder and Dean of The Cut Design Academy, where she shapes the next generation of creative talent in fashion an...

Design Education Talks Ep. 98 - Mike Dempsey RDI

31 Mar 2025

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Get in touch!After a decade in publishing, Mike formed the highly successful design consultancy Carroll, Dempsey & Thirkell (CDT) in 1979, which h...

Design Education Talks Ep. 95 - Kadine James

01 Mar 2025

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Get 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 o...

Design Education Talks Ep. 94 - Tom Lynham

31 Jan 2025

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Get in touch!Tom Lynham is a writer and creative director who helps organisations around the world to communicate better. He works with startups, desi...

Design Education Talks Special: Cheryl D. Miller: Decolonising Graphic Design

21 Jan 2025

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Get in touch!Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller is the leading voice for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the graphic design industry. Holmes-Miller is an Ame...

Design Education Talks Ep. 93 - Paul Rogers

01 Jan 2025

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Get 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 clien...

Design Education Talks Ep. 92 - Adrian Shaughnessy

01 Dec 2024

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Get in touch!Adrian Shaughnessy is a graphic designer, writer, publisher and educator. He has written, designed, edited, art directed and published nu...

Ep. 91 - Bradford Hansen-Smith - Observations and reflections

01 Nov 2024

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Get 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. B...

Design Education Talks Ep. 90 - Gail Anderson

29 Sep 2024

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Get 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...

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

31 Aug 2024

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Get in touch!Discover the transformative shifts in design education with Ellen Lupton, the esteemed author of "Thinking with Type." Ellen jo...

Design Education Talks Ep. 88 - Mitch Goldstein

31 Jul 2024

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Get in touch!Mitch Goldstein is a #designer, #artist, #educator, and #author based in upstate New York. He is an Associate #Professor at Rochester Ins...

Design Education Talks Ep. 87 - Fraser Muggeridge

30 Jun 2024

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Get in touch!Fraser Muggeridge is a graphic designer and director of Fraser Muggeridge studio based in London. Throughout a wide range of formats, fro...

Design Education Talks Ep. 86 - David Foldvari

31 May 2024

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Get 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 lat...

Design Education Talks Ep. 85 - Steven Heller

30 Apr 2024

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Get 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 Visu...

Design Education Talks Ep. 84 - Pavel Pisklakov

01 Apr 2024

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Get in touch!Pavel Pisklakov — designer, typographer and educator. Born, lives and works in Chelyabinsk, Russia. Assistant Professor at the South...

Design Education Talks Ep. 83 - Pontus Wärnestål

01 Mar 2024

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Get in touch!Pontus Wärnestål (he/him) is an award-winning Service Designer and Human-Computer Interaction researcher, with 20 years of work experie...

Design Education Talks Ep. 82 - Pawel Pokutycki

01 Feb 2024

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Get 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 Ac...

Design Education Talks Ep. 81 - Tony Pritchard

01 Jan 2024

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Get 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. ...

Design Education Talks Ep. 80 - Alex Soulsby

08 Nov 2023

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Get in touch!Alex is an internationally recognised creative education practitioner with an extensive career that stretches over twenty-five years. His...

Design Education Talks Ep. 79 - Predrag K. Nikolic

02 Nov 2023

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Get in touch!Design Education Talks Ep. 78 - Predrag K. NikolicDr. Predrag K. Nikolic is a Full Professor and Chair of the Graduate User Experience (U...

Design Education Talks Ep. 78 - Martin Salisbury

05 Oct 2023

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Get 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 incl...

Design Education Talks Ep. 77 - Amit Patel

08 Sep 2023

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Get in touch!With two decades of experience working in design and tech roles across various industries and sectors (from banking, construction, public...

Design Education Talks Ep. 76 - Tim Weaver

06 Apr 2023

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Get in touch!"Meet Tim Weaver, AKA The Brand Weaver, the ultimate Creative Solutions Activist! With over 14 years in the creative industry, he&ap...

Design Education Talks Ep. 75 - Lisa Winstanley

02 Mar 2023

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Get 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 desi...

Design Education Talks Ep. 74 - Cal Swann

02 Feb 2023

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Get 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 l...

Design Education Talks Ep. 73 - Emanuel Barbosa

12 Jan 2023

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Get in touch!Emanuel Barbosa is a designer, educator (Adjunct Professor and International coordinator at ESAD College of Art and Design) and researche...

Design Education Talks Ep. 72 - Prof. Ting Chawchen

05 Dec 2022

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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 ...

Design Education Talks Ep. 71 - Prof. Taha Duri

03 Nov 2022

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Get in touch!Prof Duri is a published author, translator, artist, and educator, having taught in Architecture, Interior Design, Health Sciences and th...

Design Education Talks Ep. 70 - Oscar Diaz

03 Oct 2022

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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 every...

Design Education Talks Ep. 69 - Shalini Prasad

07 Sep 2022

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Get in touch!Shalini Prasad is an educator, integrative designer, brand consultant, and graphic artist. She runs her own design practice under DeSha C...

Design Education Talks ep. 68 - Justus Theinert

07 Jul 2022

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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 Talks Ep. 67 – Tony Edisson

09 Jun 2022

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Get in touch!Professor Antony Eddison PFHEA. With a professional lifetime of teaching, management & leadership in Further and Higher Education in ...

Design Education Talks ep. 66 - Bradford Hansen-Smith

08 May 2022

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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...

Design Education Talks ep. 65 - Andi Armitage

01 Mar 2022

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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 sect...

Design Education Talks ep. 64 - Eloise Parrack

14 Feb 2022

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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 ...

Design Education Talks ep. 63 - Kenan Zekic

24 Jan 2022

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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 ...

Design Education Talks ep. 62 - Bradford Hansen-Smith

03 Jan 2022

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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 t...

Design Education Talks ep. 61 - Keith Kitz

15 Dec 2021

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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 De...

Design Education Talks ep. 60 - Lia Vilahur

04 Dec 2021

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Get in touch!Lia Vilahur Chiaraviglio is currently the Director of International at ERAM College, Girona, and a Graphic Designer. During her professio...

Design Education Talks ep. 59 - Andrew Brewerton

22 Oct 2021

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Get in touch!Andrew Brewerton recently retired as Principal & Chief Executive of Plymouth College of Art and was founding Chair of Governors of Pl...

Design Education Talks ep. 58 - Gizem Aytaç

11 Oct 2021

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Get in touch!GİZEM AYTAÇ - Creative Women Entrepreneur - Designer Gizem Aytaç graduated from Bilkent University, Department of Interior Architectu...

Design Education Talks Ep. 57 - Christian Guellerin

22 Sep 2021

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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 ...

Design Education Talks ep. 56 - Eduardo Martres

05 Sep 2021

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Get in touch!Eduardo Martres is Associate Professor of Practice in Industrial Design at Xi’an JiaotongLiverpool University, a joint venture between ...

Design Education Talks ep. 55 - Tommaso Maggio

28 Jul 2021

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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 t...

Ecuador Poster Bienal Special- Christopher Scott

27 Jul 2021

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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 studen...

Design Education Talks Ep. 54 - Timothy Samara

12 Jul 2021

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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, ...

Design Education Talks ep. 53 - Jennifer Whitty

17 Jun 2021

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Get in touch!Jennifer Whitty is an educator, researcher, designer, facilitator, and writer with over a decade of global experience in the field of sus...

Design Education Talks Ep. 52 - Alexia Mathieu

15 Jun 2021

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Get in touch!Alexia Mathieu is a design strategist and an educator. Her work focuses on design strategy for interactive products and services, merging...

Design Education Talks Ep. 51 - Yeohyun Ahn

04 Jun 2021

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Get in touch!Yeohyun Ahn is a designer, educator, and researcher, integrating creative coding, digital fabrication, and physical interaction into spat...

Design Education Talks Ep. 50 - Kristina Lamour Sansone

17 May 2021

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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,...

Design Education Talks Ep. 49 - Tash Willcocks

06 May 2021

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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 Graph...

Design Education Talks Ep. 48 - Chris Murphy

21 Apr 2021

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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 Education Talks Ep. 47 - Lee-Sean Huang

21 Apr 2021

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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 i...

Design Education Talks Ep. 46 - William Mazza

22 Mar 2021

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Get in touch!Bill Mazza is professor of Critical/Creative thinking for thousands of students and instructors at the European Institute of Design in Fl...

Design Education Talks Ep. 45 - Sudebi Thakurata

02 Mar 2021

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Get in touch!Sudebi Thakurata  is a narrative designer, creative facilitator, educator, writer and futurist. She designs experiences, engagement and ...

Design Education Talks Ep. 44 - Jan Eckert

11 Feb 2021

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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 Un...

Design Education Talks Ep. 43 - Peny Hay

24 Jan 2021

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Get in touch!Dr Penny Hay (FRSA, FHEA) is an artist and educator. Penny is a part-time Reader in Creative Teaching and Learning and Senior Lecturer in...

Design Education Talks Ep. 42 - Karel Vredenburg

12 Jan 2021

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Get in touch!Karel has spent his professional career dealing with design, technology, human affect, cognition, and behaviour primarily through the hum...

Design Education Talks Ep. 41 - Ben Van Dyke

18 Dec 2020

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Get in touch!Benjamin Van Dyke was born in the heat of southern Florida and later moved to the chill of western Michigan. His life, and his intellectu...

Design Education Talks Ep. 40 - Marcello Magalhaes

08 Dec 2020

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Get in touch!Marcello Magalhães is founder and chief design officer at Speakeasy – Knowledge Brokers, a brand innovation freelancer global network ...

Design Education Talks Ep. 39 - Kadine James

04 Dec 2020

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Get in touch!Kadine is the Global Head of Generative AI Executive Creative Director at Virtual XR studio Artificial Rome. Kadine is the CEO and Artist...

Design Education Talks Ep. 38 - Joost Roozekrans

25 Nov 2020

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Get in touch!Joost Roozekrans has been working as a designer, creative director, and senior design lecturer. Thirty years in the design profession, wi...

Design Education Talks Ep. 37 - Gonzalo Raineri

19 Nov 2020

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Get in touch!Gonzalo Raineri, Designer, Architect, Magister in Environmental Studies and Bioclimatic Architect, candidate for a doctorate in Design. U...

Design Education Talks Ep. 36 - Haluk Mesci

12 Nov 2020

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Get in touch!Haluk Mesci has been in advertising his whole life, writing copy, building and selling agencies, teaching in many universities, translati...

Design Education Talks Ep. 35 - Balvir Nandra

28 Oct 2020

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Get in touch!Balvir Nandra is currently working with undergraduate students of Architecture at Nottingham Trent University delivering a series of Inte...

Design Education Talks Ep. 34 - Jonathan Jewell

22 Oct 2020

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Get in touch!Jonathan is an educator working across various disciplines in higher, professional and compulsory education. He teaches, and has taught, ...

Design Education Talks Ep. 33 - Adam Paxmam

15 Oct 2020

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Get in touch!Adam Paxman has worked as a freelance illustrator since 2008. He has previously worked as an Associate Lecturer at Manchester Metropolita...

Design Education Talks Ep. 32 - Julia Goga Cook

08 Oct 2020

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Get in touch!Dr. Juliana Goga-Cooke: Julia is an academic, journalist, design thinker and entrepreneur. She leads the Academy of Design Thinking, help...

Design Education Talks Ep. 31 - Anastasios Maragiannis

01 Oct 2020

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Get in touch!A designer, academic and researcher, Dr Anastasios Maragiannis has devoted his career to exploring and understanding the fundamentals of ...

Design Education Talks Ep. 30 - Audrone Drungilaite

23 Sep 2020

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Get in touch!Audrone Drungilaite is a Creative Director at EMKO - a place where simply smart design meets its seekers and creators. She’s a former E...

Design Education Talks Ep. 29 - Patrick Morgan

17 Sep 2020

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Get in touch!Patrick Morgan: Trained at the Royal College of Art, Patrick has worked as a commercial artist for over 20 years receiving commissions fr...

Design Education Talks Ep. 28 - Britt Möricke

10 Sep 2020

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Get in touch!From a very young age, Britt Möricke has loved the look of letters. When she was 12 years old, the book ‘Writing, Illuminating and Let...

Design Education Talks Ep. 27 - Oded Ezer

31 Aug 2020

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Get in touch!Oded Ezer, B.Des, Senior Lecturer, Graphic Design Department, Holon Institute of Technology Typography is a central part of graphic desig...

Design Education Talks Ep. 26 - Dan Wong

06 Aug 2020

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Get in touch!Dan Wong is Professor of Web Design in the Communication Design Department at New York City College of Technology, CUNY since 2008. Profe...

Design Education Talks Ep. 25 - Pete Bella

30 Jul 2020

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Get in touch!I am a creative, an artist, a designer, and a design educator. Currently I am an Assistant Professor of Art and Graphic Design at the Uni...

Design Education Talks Ep. 24 - Robin Landa

23 Jul 2020

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Get in touch!Robin Landa is a Distinguished Professor in the Michael Graves College of Kean University. She has written over twenty books about advert...

Design Education Talks Ep. 23 - Volodymyr Stasenko

16 Jul 2020

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Get in touch!Volodymyr Stasenko PhD, Professor, Head of Department of Graphic design and art of the book, Ukrainian academy of printingEducation: Lviv...

Design Education Talks Ep. 22 - Christer Hedberg

10 Jul 2020

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Get in touch!Christer helps teams and companies embrace change, curiosity and collaboration, and has supported companies like Volvo, Husqvarna, City o...

Design Education Talks Ep. 21 - Jaygo Bloom

02 Jul 2020

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Get in touch!Jaygo Bloom is the Program Leader for British Design programs, BA Graphic Design and BA Illustration located at the British School of Cre...

Design Education Talks Ep. 20 - John Spencer

26 Jun 2020

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Get in touch!Life and times - John SpencerAward-winning creative director and graphic designerWaving the flag for instinct and imaginationAuthor of Ti...

Design Education Talks Ep. 19 - Rama Gheerawo

19 Jun 2020

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Get in touch!Rama Gheerawo is an international and inspirational figure within design. He is a serial innovator in the fields of Inclusive Design, Des...

Design Education Talks Ep. 18 - Natalia Delgado

13 Jun 2020

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Get in touch!Graphic designer and educator with more than 15 years of experience in her field, Natalia has a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Communicat...

Design Education Talks Ep. 17 - Laze Tripkov

06 Jun 2020

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Get in touch!Laze Tripkov gained his MA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (graphic design department) at 2002. The same year he began his post-mas...

Design Education Talks Ep. 16 - Louise O'Boyle

30 May 2020

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Get in touch!Louise O’Boyle is Acting Head of Belfast School of Art, Ulster University and Secretary of GLADHE, the UK-based Group for Learning in A...

Design Education Talks Ep. 15 - Frank Peters

23 May 2020

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Get in touch!Frank Peters  FCSD CDir FIoD Chief Executive of the Chartered Society of Designers and The Register of Chartered Designers Honorary Secr...

Design Education talks ep.14 - Tea Uglow

17 May 2020

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Get in touch!Tea Uglow has worked at Google for over 12 years, starting Google’s Creative Lab in Europe and, since 2012, building a Creative Lab for...

Design Education talks ep.13 - Derek Jones

04 May 2020

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Get in touch!Derek Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Design at The Open University (UK) and part of the OU Design Group. He is a member of the team respon...

Design Education Talks Ep. 12 - Richard Adams

04 May 2020

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Get in touch!Richard trained in art at four different art schools. In the early 90’s he became fascinated by computers and became a pioneering compu...

Design Education Talks Ep. 11 - Joan Quiros

01 May 2020

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Get in touch!Joan Quirós is an independent calligrapher and lettering artist based in Valencia, Spain, where he works for the rest of the world.As a ...

Design Education talks ep.10 - Murat Germen

24 Apr 2020

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Get in touch!Murat Germen is an artist, academic and archivist using photography as an expression / research tool. Born 1965, he currently lives / wor...

Design Education Talks Ep. 9 - Barıs Atiker

19 Apr 2020

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Get in touch!Barış Atiker is a motion designer and instructor living in Istanbul, Turkey. He has a Proficiency in Art (2009) degree on Motion Graphi...