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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.

https://ellenlupton.com/
https://www.instagram.com/ellenlupton/

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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.com
https://www.instagram.com/mgoldst/

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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
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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 Typography Summer School, a week-long programme of typographic study for recent graduates and professionals, held in London (since 2010) and New York (since 2013). He is a visiting lecturer at The University of Reading (since 2003) on the MA Book Design Course and visiting professor at Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavík, Iceland. He was appointed Professor of Design at Leeds Beckett University in 2023.

He completed a practice-based PhD entitled ‘A Knowing Wrongness: Innovation in graphic design through combinations of traditional mastery and deliberately unconventional techniques’ at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, in January 2022.

Work is held at the Special Collections at Chelsea College of Arts Library, London; Tate, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York; British High Commission Dhaka, Bangladesh and The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

www.pleasedonotbend.co.uk

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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
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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.uk

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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/

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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 and editor-at-large for Printmag.com (where he writes The Daily Heller). He is the author, co-author, and editor of over 200 books on the history and practice of graphic design, illustration, satiric art and writes frequently about popular visual culture. He has authored an equal number of intros, prefaces and essays for other books, including two monographs on his wife, Louise Fili. He has collaborated on numerous books with Gail Anderson, Veronique Vienne, Lita Talarico, Louise Fili and Mirko Ilic. He was awarded the AIGA Medal, elected to the Art Director’s Hall of Fame, The One Club Educators Hall of Fame, Eric Carle Award, SOI Richard Gangel Award for Art Direction and is the 2011 Recipient of the Smithsonion National Design Award for “Design Mind” and has two honorary Ph.Ds in Fine Arts by The College for Creative Studies in Detroit and the University of West Bohemia in the Czech Republic, among other honors. His most recent book with design legend Seymour Chwast, HELL: THE PEOPLE, THE PLACES is one of fifteen they’ve done together. His autobiographical book “Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counter Culture New York” was published in Fall 2022 by Princeton Architectural Press.

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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/

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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 several national and international awards, among them: Winner of “50 Books | 50 Covers 2018” organized by AIGA and Design Observer, Honorary award at 11th International Triennale of Eco-Poster “4th block”, Excellence Award at 3rd Contemporary Ink Design Biennale on Beijing Design Week 2020 and Excellence Award at Ink Art & Pattern on Beijing Design Week 2019, several Silver Awards and Honorable mentions in Graphis Design Annuals and Graphis Poster Annuals.

Over the years he teaches courses in computer science, computer graphics, typography, principles of art and design, statistics and methods of mathematical modeling. He has held lectures and workshops about newspaper, magazine and poster design, history of the poster and communication design for different audiences. Pavel’s students were winners and finalists of different poster competitions (Poster for Tomorrow, ISPC Skopje, etc.). Design education, integration of math methods and design, exploration of new technologies in media, typography is the field of his research. He speaks at different international design conferences, in particular, he was the only Russian speaker at the international conference on typography Face Forward (2015, Dublin, Ireland), World Design Congress during World Design Summit (2017, Montreal, Canada), 7th International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (2019, Patras, Greece).

He has also organized and hosted many design events in Chelyabinsk, among them such world-known exhibitions as TDC’s Best Typography, Tolerance Poster Show, annual Poster for Tomorrow exhibitions.

He has been a member of the jury and preselection committees of Poster For Tomorrow, A’Design Award & Competitio

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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
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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 sense but make a difference.

In addition, Pontus serves as Deputy Professor at Halmstad University. This dual role creates a unique synergy, marrying cutting-edge research and innovation with responsible and practical application and learning. Pontus was awarded “Excellent Teacher” 2019 and 2022 at Halmstad University.
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You can find some of my appearances on other podcasts here:
https://warnestal.com/appearances.html

And my writing is here (the blog posts should give you a quick way to see what I am working on): https://warnestal.com/publications.html

Topics of interest include: the future of education in a knowledge-driven society, life-long learning, and the role of human-centred design and AI in society, organisations, and for individuals.

My LinkedIn is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pontuswarnestal

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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
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and https://heretakis.medium.com/

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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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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/

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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 Drug Dependency.

Tony co-organised the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) lecture series between 2000-2003. The series culminated with a lecture by Rosmarie Tissi held at the Cochrane Theatre. He co-organised the accompanying 100+3 posters exhibition from Siegfried Odermatt’s collection. In 2017 Tony interviewed pre-eminent book designer Jost Hochuli in front of a sell-out audience. At this event he was awarded a Fellowship of the ISTD. He was the former managing editor of ISTD’s Typographic journal. He has been a board member and is currently on the education committee.

In 2004 Tony co-curated Future Map for the University of the Arts London, which was part of the London Design Festival. In 2007 he was commissioned by innovative music ensemble Icebreaker to design the packaging of a commemorative CD for the composer Philip Glass.

In 2012, Tony presented a paper at Cyprus University of Technology's first International Conference on Semiotics and Visual Communication. He was invited onto the organising and scientific committee for the 2020 conference. He was also featured in the film Visual Rhetoric, a collaborative project between London College of Communication and the London School of Economics (LSE).

Tony has written numerous articles for publications such as Eye, Computer Arts and Typographic. In 2016 he was published in Taking a Line for a Walk (assignments in design education).

Tony has taught in many capacities over the years. His tutors Andrew Haig and Peter Gill both maintained professional practice whilst undertaking visiting lecturer roles. This connection between design education and the associated profession was formed early on in his outlook as a result. Tony cites Geoff White as an influence on his approach to the teaching of fun

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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/

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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 Regional Theatre of the Year and Guardian’s Arts Centre of the decade

His work has featured in publications including The Times, The Guardian, Scotsman, RSA Magazine, the BBC, and the International Baccalaureate magazine, along with mentions in various academic journals. Recognition of his contributions to education and work with young people, recently resulted in a nominated and elected fellowship at the Royal Society of the Arts.

He is committed to creating meaningful opportunities for young people by bringing schools, creative minds, and educators together. His approach being, not just to work with, but to deeply embed schools in their communities and to reimagine the educational landscape for the betterment of young learners.

https://www.alexsoulsby.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:
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