Lefteris Heretakis

Nikolaus Hafermaas - Berlin Unplugged: Design, Education, and the Courage to Disrupt - Design Education Talks Nikolaus Hafermaas is a designer, educator, artist, and lifelong experimenter whose career moves fluidly between practice and pedagogy, Europe and the United States, the analogue and the digital. A se...

"Convenience produces mid-level design that looks professional but never transcends expectation."

Nikolaus Hafermaas on why comfort is killing design education and what to do about it.

🎧 Berlin Unplugged: Design, Education, and the Courage to Disrupt
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The Six Purposes of Schooling, by John Taylor Gatto. Why John Taylor Gatto Was Right In 1918, a Harvard professor named Alexander James Inglis published a dense, bureaucratic volume titled Principles of Secondary Education. Buried deep within its pages,...

School tells young people: wait.

Wait to contribute.
Wait to earn.
Wait to matter.

John Taylor Gatto called compulsory schooling the artificial extension of childhood.

What if that postponement is the real problem?

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What Survives When AI Comes for Design Education

We are living through a moment of exposure. Artificial intelligence did not create the crisis in design education. It revealed it.

YouTube video by Awe Digital Wellness What Survives When AI Comes for Design Education With Special Guest Lefteris Heretakis

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Conclusions from Basic Design: The Cultivation of Wisdom, Reason and Sensibility by Hu Hung-shu The central thesis of Basic Design: The Cultivation of Wisdom, Reason and Sensibility is that design education must be understood as a humanistic discipline before it is treated as a professional or t...

Conclusions from Basic Design: The Cultivation of Wisdom, Reason and Sensibility by Hu Hung-shu. www.linkedin.com/pulse/conclu...

The Hollow Grades AI didn't break education, it revealed that we had quietly stopped requiring the thinking and started accepting the product in its place. When a student submits AI-generated work, they haven't skipped the homework; they've skipped the development, the confusion, the cognitive muscle the assignment was designed to build. We are handing out shoes to people we have never let touch the ground.

The Hollow Grades

AI didn't break education, it revealed that we had quietly stopped requiring the thinking and started accepting the product in its place. When a student submits AI-generated work, they haven't skipped the homework; they've skipped the development, the confusion, the cognitive…

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The Education We Deserve: Ellen Lupton on Typography, Teaching, and the Reinvention of Design The Education We Deserve: Ellen Lupton on Typography, Teaching, and the Reinvention of Design Learning A Design Education Talks deep dive from The New Art School There is a line that sits at the …

Ellen Lupton on what postmodernism got wrong: "We were rebelling against systems, against modernism and what got lost was methods." The pendulum swung from structure to freedom and the scaffolding that teaches people to think was removed. 🔗 heretakis.medium.com/the-educatio...

Design Education Talks Ep. 90 - Gail Anderson - Design Education Talks 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 serve...

On keeping students engaged:

"Part of this is being a little bit of an entertainer. We are actors in a way. This is your show. You are the star for three hours. Make it work."

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Design Education Talks Ep. 93 - Paul Rogers - Design Education Talks 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, ...

Illustrator Paul Rogers reflects on 44 years of practice, teaching, and visual storytelling in this powerful episode of Design Education Talks.
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Tom Lynham: Design After Beauty: Education, Responsibility, and Lifelong Learning The conversation with Tom Lynham unfolds not as a conventional career narrative, but as a meditation on creativity, education…

What should designers learn today? Tom Lynham on ethics, collaboration & life-long creativity. Read the full article ➤ heretakis.medium.com/tom-lynham-d...

Design Education Talks Ep. 94 - Tom Lynham - Design Education Talks 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...

A thoughtful conversation with Tom Lynham. Writer, creative director and strategic communicator, Tom reflects on storytelling, brand thinking and meaningful communication across culture and organisations.

For designers, educators and creative leaders.

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Creative industries, art, and design take centre stage at #etECH2026 Join the international conference in Riga, 22–23 April 2026. etech.eka.edu.lv

Conclusions from Basic Design: The Cultivation of Wisdom, Reason and Sensibility by Hu Hung-shu The central thesis of Basic Design: The Cultivation of Wisdom, Reason and Sensibility is that design education must be understood as a humanistic discipline before it is treated as a professional or t...

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The Bauhaus Manifesto: Ideas and Structure of the State Bauhaus Introduction: Why This Text Still Matters

The Bauhaus manifesto is not a relic of modernism. It is a radical call to rebuild the relationship between art, labour, society, and the human spirit after cultural collapse.
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Through this, students learn how to think independently rather than imitate authority. This pedagogical stance affirms that education is not about efficiency or speed, but about depth and transformation."

Hu Hung-shu

"Teaching is not as the transmission of answers but as the creation of conditions for discovery. Problems are carefully designed so that students must struggle productively. Confusion is treated as a necessary phase of learning rather than a failure.

Design Education Talks Haluk Sicimoğlu: Blending Empathy with Advertising Expertise - Design Education Talks We’re thrilled to welcome Haluk Sicimoğlu, a dynamic strategist, storyteller, and entrepreneur hailing from İzmir. As the founder of THAAT’S IT!, Haluk brings a sharp focus on innovation powered by in...

From overlooked ideas to powerful connections. A thoughtful conversation with Haluk Sicimoğlu on branding, insight, and human-centred innovation.
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Costume as Sculpture: The Worlds of Gwen van den Eijnde - Design Education Talks 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 apparel design at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Pr...

New episode of Design Education Talks
Gwen van den Eijnde, Head Apparel Design @risd1877.bsky.social on tradition, craft, storytelling & why art schools must remain spaces of freedom, not industry pipelines.
Fashion beyond trends. Education beyond employability.
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Design Education Talks: Brian Grimwood - The Illustrator Who Rewrote the Rules - Design Education Talks As an illustration educator, few figures stand out as boldly, and as impactfully, as Brian Grimwood. His work is not merely a reflection of evolving visual trends; it is a catalyst for change that hel...

Brian Grimwood on illustration, instinct, and changing creative industries. A must-listen for students, educators, and visual thinkers.
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The Drawing Excellence Framework: Redesigning the visual communication curriculum: restoring… Craft skills in the UK are in the same position historic buildings were a hundred years ago. The Guardian, 4/8/2017

The Drawing Excellence Framework: Redesigning the visual communication curriculum: restoring drawing as a core competency. heretakis.medium.com/the-drawing-...

Design Education Talks Ep. 98 - Mike Dempsey RDI - Design Education Talks 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 Dempsey offers a rare, honest perspective on what it really means to live a life in design. This is a conversation for anyone questioning formal education, worried about AI, frustrated by surface-level work, or searching for ideas with integrity. www.buzzsprout.com/1969986/epis...

James Grady: "Software is never the point. Tools change. Platforms rise and fall. What matters instead is curiosity, problem framing, and the ability to move laterally across domains..." listen more here: www.buzzsprout.com/1969986/epis...

Design Education Talks After the very first Design Education Forum by the New Art School in 2019, Design Education Talks podcast was created as a dynamic platform for the exchange of insights and ideas within the realm of a...

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The Machine Did Not Arrive Too Early. Culture Arrived Too Late A New Art School Critique of Harari on AI, Language, and Authority

“Art does not originate in description but in material engagement with the world. Education does not originate in texts but in transformation through practice. To treat these domains as fundamentally linguistic is to confuse representation…”  heretakis.medium.com/the-machine-...

Attide / Nora Orlandi - Ponente [Italy - Library, Ambient, Minimalism] (19??)

Attide / Nora Orlandi - Ponente [Italy - Library, Ambient, Minimalism] (19??)
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