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Liza Deyrmenjian is the founder and Dean of The Cut Design Academy, where she shapes the next generation of creative talent in fashion and design with a strong focus on environmental responsibility. With over three decades of experience as an entrepreneur, film producer, and design expert, Liza launched her career at twenty by founding Arteenelle Designs Inc. and Noccona Manufacturing in Vancouver, producing for brands like London Fog and Marmot. Her career later took her to New York, where she mentored emerging designers, helping them secure placements in top retailers like Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom and Bloomingdale’s. Today, Liza continues to inspire through both education and the arts, merging strategic business insight with visionary creativity.

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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&AD, a past Master of The Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry, and in 1994, he was made a Royal Designer for Industry.

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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.

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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 built environment she dived into the world of advertising at Verizon, Yahoo RYOT and Accenture she has since worked with some of the most recognised names across fashion, media and the gaming industry. Kadine is pioneer in digital fashion having produced “ElectricCity”, a 3D-avatar based immersive shopping experience with POKEMON generating ‘in-game’ sales of its virtual fashion collection. Kadine produced Pop Star Nina Nesbitt’s “Virtual Reflection” dressing the star in RTFT for her debut as an Avatar at the Metaverse Music Festival in Decentraland 2021. Kadine worked with the brand Monkey Shoulder to create their first ever NFT wearable collection with the DJ’s A-Skillz and Krafty Kuts who performed as Avatars at  Aft Decentraland’s first Metaverse Music Festival. 

Partnering with leading gaming studio Epic Games, to digitally dress “Metahumans” in Streetwear Designer Charli Cohen’s “phygital” fashion collection with luxury retailer Selfridges along with bringing the Digital Garments onto Ready Player Me Avatars. Kadine worked with Warner Brothers & Niantic on the Dune Movie Campaign to create a Dune AR/VR/XR wearables collection connecting audiences at scale around the Globe. Kadine founded The Immersive KIND collective a crypto fashion & extended reality arts collective, working with BAFTA, Decentraland, Ready Player Me, and Spatial, where she has built Virtual Worlds powered by UNITY along with NFT/token/Collectables at Metaverse Fashion Weeks alongside The Immersive KIND’s Digital Fashion Metaverse Venue co-designed with architects Studio Multi. Kadine heads up The Immersive KIND Metaverse Collective working with the world’s leading Digital Artists and Fashion Designers. Kadine lectures at RCA and is Chief Metaverse Officer at Artificial Rome, and Executive Director and producer of L

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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/ 

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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.

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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 AIGA Medal and a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award as a Design Visionary, and she is a One Club Creative Hall of Fame inductee and an IBM Honorary Design Scholar.

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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.

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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 XXXVII and for e US Open Tennis Championship.

His work has won awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Association of Illustrators/London, e Society of Illustrators, e Type Directors Club, AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION, COMMUNICATION ARTS, and GRAPHIS POSTER. His drawings and paintings have been exhibited at the Stella Jones Gallery in New Orleans, the Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery in Pasadena, California, and at e Cummer Museum of Art in Jacksonville, Florida. He is currently an Associate Professor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Paul has collaborated on two books with Wynton Marsalis, Jazz ABZ, which was given the Norman Sugarman Award for Distinguished Biography for Children, and was selected for AIGA 50 Books 2006, and Squeak, Rumble, Whomp, Whomp, Whomp! published by Candlewick Press in 2012. He illustrated a children’s book, Forever Young by Bob Dylan published by Simon and Schuster in Fall 2008, and is the author of Name at Movie: 100 Illustrated Movie Puzzles, published by Chronicle Books in 2012, and the Name at Show: 100 Illustrated TV Show Puzzles. (2017.) Next year Bejing Zito Books will publish an illustrated version of On e Road by Jack Kerouac with over 300 drawings by Paul Rogers.

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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 Patricia Finnegan. To date the company has published over 50 titles. The company’s back catalogue was recently acquired by Thames & Hudson. All new Unit Editions titles are handled by T&H. Shaughnessy acts as a consultant for the publisher.

In addition to writing for many of the leading design journals, Eye, Creative Review, DesignWeek, Print, Idea and Etapes, Shaughnessy has also written forThe Guardian, and was a regular contributor to the design blog Design Observer. A book of his essays and journalism was published in 2013. For a few years, he hosted a weekly radio show, “Graphic design on The Radio”, on Resonance FM.

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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 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 new way to do and think about what we do. During that time, he has written seven books and has published papers on folding circles.

He calls this approach Wholemovement, folding the circle for information. It is comprehensive through the hand-on experience of folding the circle as unity and observing what is revealed. This is about the transforming changes of order and organization all in one place; nothing is added or taken away. Information is not constructed or put into the circle. Through a principled sequence of folding, observing, and reforming, the directives for the process are inherent to unity in the circle, it is whole. Folding the circle demonstrates spherical unity beyond all other shapes and forms. It is about learning to see what is not seen, attending to what we do, and to use what is revealed to discover what we do not know. This provides any folder with experience to know circles are not what we are told they are, they are so much more: as it is with most information we are given.

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https://youtu.be/0Y4oJ7d6wec?si=584B8ZYKeQ4_gNB0
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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. Postal Service and the advisory boards of Poster House and The One Club for Creativity. She is an AIGA Medalist, the 2018 recipient of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement, and a 2022 Art Directors Club Manship Medallion Honoree. Her work is represented in the Library of Congress’ permanent collection, the Milton Glaser Design Archives, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Se Gail's work here: https://gailycurl.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.

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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/
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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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