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 Tailor Made ad agency - internationally-awarded and later acquired by PublicisGroupe – and earlier this year co-founded sonic branding strategic/production house, Hole in the Wall Gang. He holds 3 Masters in Communication and Strategic Design, teaches at the Miami Ad School for 15 years, and lives with his family in Chicago.

https://www.speakeasykb.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcellomagalhaes/

Creative Technologist, Artist, Activist, Digital Curator, Immersive XR producer, Digitalmaker, innovator & emerging technology enthusiast, Kadine James is a prominent Tech Evangelist. Combining 10+ years’ experience in 3D Printing, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, XR and immersive technology, she’s driven by big ideas, a global mindset and empowering the use of VR/AR/XR & AI across the arts and creative tech industries. Kadine is especially committed to the next generation industry 5.0 #VR #AR #Immersive storytellers #DigitalMakers #artists #architects #gamers at Hobs3D's digital foundry, Immersive studios and 3D skills Academy.

Kadine is listed as one of the top most influential women in UK technology (computer weekly). She collaborates with world leading XR artists, academics, architects, designers, creative technologist and galleries and institutions around the world. Kadine is the Founder of The Immersive Kind, an Arts and Advanced Technology Organisation and multidisciplinary global collective of artists, designers and creative technologists.

Kadine sits on the international advisory board at None in Three a research and policy centre which is using gaming technology to tackle gender based violence around the world.
Kadine James, Founder and Creative Director
The Immersive KIND https://theimmersivekind.com
@immersivekind

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 at Studio Dumbar in 1992.

Joost is regularly giving design lectures and workshops. At universities, conferences, and companies in the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Lithuania, P.R. China, South Korea, Hong Kong, Australia, and the USA.

In the summer of 2020, he published a design theory book: How to Create Better Ideas - Connecting the Left and Right Brain in the Design Process. The book divides in two parts. The first part explains the design process as a total, putting ideation in the middle. The second part teaches six methods to create design ideas for young designers and professionals.

Links to online info:
Company website Holland: https://www.joostroozekrans.com
Company website China: https://www.sparkytiger.com
Personal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joostroozekrans/
Design education book Netherlands: https://www.bispublishers.com/how-to-create-better-ideas.html
Design education book China: https://item.jd.com/10021214158533.html
Design education book international: https://www.bookdepository.com/How-to-Create-Better-Ideas/9789063695866
Graphic novel about the world financial crises 2008 (Free download): https://www.sparkytiger.com/blog/swimming-with-sharks
Refection about design education in China: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lessons-design-education-china-joost-roozekrans/

Gonzalo Raineri, Designer, Architect, Magister in Environmental Studies and Bioclimatic Architect, candidate for a doctorate in Design. University professor for over 20 years. Final project advisor, product and spatial design studios coordinator and member of the curriculum committee at the Design School at Finis Terrae University. Design researcher, project evaluator, jury in design competitions, as well as senior lecturer and consultant on topics related to sustainable design and disciplinary development associated with autopoiesis. Worked in Amsterdam, Dublin, Madrid and Santiago. Creator of the YouTube channel BigBangThinking.https://www.bigbangthinking.com/

Haluk Mesci has been in advertising his whole life, writing copy, building and selling agencies, teaching in many universities, translating some 14 books on advertising, creativity, and branding into Turkish. He is also the creator of a unique ‘advertising practicum’ that overcomes the weaknesses of three other ‘student-run agency’ models known in the world. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Haluk_Mesci

Balvir Nandra is currently working with undergraduate students of Architecture at Nottingham Trent University delivering a series of Integrated Design Studies components. His educational experience spans over more than two decades, during which he has been Course Director, Senior Lecturer and Senior Teaching Fellow for Graphic Design and Communication Design disciplines at graduate and post-graduate levels at Birmingham City University, UK.

He has more than forty years of experience in both design practice and education in areas such as concept visualisation, marketing, public relations, typography, semantics, information design and design ethics.

He has also worked as a consultant on several large-scale design projects, including work for Telecom Malaysia, ARUPS and Transport for London.

He is engaged in active research and dialogue with several high profile international institutions ¬¬– this includes pedagogic development in partnership with Coventry University Online UK, and course delivery strategies for several educational establishments across Russia, China, India and South-East Asia.

He is currently examining the impact of globalisation on educational delivery.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/balvir-nandra-2378b013/?originalSubdomain=uk

Jonathan is an educator working across various disciplines in higher, professional and compulsory education. He teaches, and has taught, in several universities, unions, professional bodies, schools and with the medical Royal Colleges as well as workplaces.

His experience and education embraces systems, design and cognitive ergonomics, art and the social and natural sciences. He has particular interests in axiology, human factors, cognition, measurement and decision sciences, as well as blended education and advanced research methods. He is a Reader for the Queen's Anniversary Awards for Further & Higher Education and a Liveryman of the Educator's Company and the Society of Apothecaries.

His current practice focuses on the ways in which new approaches using Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), to create autonomous, regenerative systems at local levels to reduce the need for global supply chains.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-jewell/

Adam Paxman has worked as a freelance illustrator since 2008. He has previously worked as an Associate Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University on the Contextualising Practice theory module for first year Graphic Design and Illustration with Animation undergraduates.

Adam has taught at Hugh Baird College in Bootle since 2009. He initially taught mostly on the Art and Design and Graphic Arts programmes at Further Education level. He has been a part of the Graphic Arts programme team at Hugh Baird University Centre since 2013, when the programme was validated by the University of Central Lancashire. Since then, Adam has come to specialise in Contextual Studies across all three years of study, lecturing and leading theory-based seminars for students on most of the design-related programmes. Adam also teaches practical sessions in subjects including Graphic Arts and Games Design.

Adam is an alumnus of Liverpool John Moores University’s Graphic Arts Bachelor of Arts programme, where he specialised in Illustration, and Glyndwr’s Illustration for Children Master of Arts programme. He has a Post-graduate Certificate in Education.

Adam’s research interests are diverse, responding to Calls for Papers from a variety of institutions, conferences and symposia. He particularly enjoys using illustration practice as a means to reflect on and analyse literary texts or topics of academic discourse.

Adam is also currently exploring publish on demand (POD) opportunities for several personal long-term written and illustrated narrative projects.

http://www.adampaxman.com/
https://www.instagram.com/misterpaxman

Dr. Juliana Goga-Cooke: Julia is an academic, journalist, design thinker and entrepreneur. She leads the Academy of Design Thinking, helping organisations create innovation skills and capabilities, and adopt a design led culture.
Her career started in academia, with a Ph.D in Linguistics, and moved to journalism, working for the BBC for 16 years as a broadcaster, producer, editor and senior leader. After a gap year of study in Design Thinking Innovation and Entrepreneurship at CSM and London Business School, she co-founded and managed the Future of Work Research Consortium, and founded the Academy of Design Thinking. She has worked with more than 100 companies across a wide range of industries. Julia teaches Design Thinking and Foresight & Strategy at Loughborough University London and Design Thinking Accelerator at Central Saint Martins, University of Arts. She lives in London.

CEO Academy of Design Thinking, Somerset House
https://www.academyofdesignthinking.com/

Design Education Talks Ep. 31 - Anastasios Maragiannis