Design Education Talks

Benjamin Van Dyke was born in the heat of southern Florida and later moved to the chill of western Michigan. His life, and his intellectual pursuit, is a series of stark contrasts and experiential anomalies. He received an MFA from the Stamps School at the University of Michigan and a BFA from Kendall College of Art & Design. He has been invited to exhibit his work across North America, Europe...

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, B...

Kadine is the Global Head of Generative AI Executive Creative Director at Virtual XR studio Artificial Rome. Kadine is the CEO and Artistic Director of The Immersivs KIND. She is listed as one of the Top 10 female metaverse founders and influencers in Web3. Kadine James is a multi-disciplinary creative tech leader, working across ai, digital art, crypto fashion, blockchain, NFT, metaverse producti...

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), fou...

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,...

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/Ha...

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-gradua...

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 int...

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...

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 leade...

A designer, academic and researcher, Dr Anastasios Maragiannis has devoted his career to exploring and understanding the fundamentals of design diversity and inclusion, within the context of the digital landscape and a multidisciplinary approach to design thinking. Anastasios is currently the Deputy Head School of Design at the University of Greenwich, London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of t...

Audrone Drungilaite is a Creative Director at EMKO - a place where simply smart design meets its seekers and creators. She’s a former Executive Director of the Lithuanian Design Forum which is a non-governmental design promotion organization bridging designers with the industry. Audrone had been responsible for the management of Design Week Lithuania, the biggest design festival in the Baltics hap...

Patrick Morgan: Trained at the Royal College of Art, Patrick has worked as a commercial artist for over 20 years receiving commissions from famous designers and exclusive patrons; Yves Saint Laurent, Tom Ford, Dior, Fendi, The Royal Academy of Arts, The London Olympics, and was commissioned to do a portrait of US Vogue Creative Director Grace Coddington. Major works created in collaboration with T...

From a very young age, Britt Möricke has loved the look of letters. When she was 12 years old, the book ‘Writing, Illuminating and Lettering’ by Edward Johnston taught her the essential principles of calligraphy. Eventually her passion for letters led her to the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, where she graduated from the department Typographic Design in 2002. She did her internship at Penguin...

Oded Ezer, B.Des, Senior Lecturer, Graphic Design Department, Holon Institute of Technology Typography is a central part of graphic design: creating and organising letters, words, sentences and simple and complicated texts in a given format. My professional work has many facets, and all of them, one way or another, are connected with words. Consulting on Complex Typographic Design Visual editorial...

Dan Wong is Professor of Web Design in the Communication Design Department at New York City College of Technology, CUNY since 2008. Professor Wong holds a Masters of Fine Art degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art, a four-year AOCA degree from the Ontario College of Art and Design and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto, with focused studies on behavioural cognitive and physiologica...

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 University of Central Arkansas (UCA), creator and host of the DESIGN DEDUX™ Podcast, and founder of Twist Creative Studio ™ and creative director with Dave Creek Media. I have earned my MFA in Design from Savannah College of Art and Design , an MS in Marketing, Comm...

Robin Landa is a Distinguished Professor in the Michael Graves College of Kean University. She has written over twenty books about advertising, graphic design, branding, personal branding, creativity, and drawing, including Advertising by Design, 3rd ed., Graphic Design Solutions, 6th ed., and Nimble: Thinking Creatively in The Digital Age. She has won numerous awards for her design, writing, and...

Volodymyr Stasenko PhD, Professor, Head of Department of Graphic design and art of the book, Ukrainian academy of printing Education: Lviv School of Applied Arts, (1991); Ukrainian Academy of Printing, Graphics (1996); Lviv Academy of Arts, graduate of the school (2000). Internship: Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland, 2003); Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University (UKSW) (Warsaw, Poland, 2018)....

Christer helps teams and companies embrace change, curiosity and collaboration, and has supported companies like Volvo, Husqvarna, City of Gothenburg, Gothenburg Symphonics and Mölnlycke Health Care to solve complex creative challenges and innovate through engaging workshops and design sprints. Christer is also a course director at Yrgo in Gothenburg and Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm...

Jaygo Bloom is the Program Leader for British Design programs, BA Graphic Design and BA Illustration located at the British School of Creative Arts in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The school provides a British design education experience for Latin American students and is accredited by The University of Hertfordshire. Since 2007 Jaygo has developed meaningful and relevant design teaching methods for special...

Life and times - John Spencer Award-winning creative director and graphic designer Waving the flag for instinct and imagination Author of Time Flies When You're Having Fun, an A to Z of idiosyncratic letters Coming soon, my new book There’s no bullsh*t like design bullsh*t. Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Member of the International Society of Typographic Designers Offthetopofmyhead - ht...

Rama Gheerawo is an international and inspirational figure within design. He is a serial innovator in the fields of Inclusive Design, Design Thinking and Creative Leadership having personally led over 100 projects working internationally with governments, business, academia and the third sector. He won a ‘Hall of Fame’ award for his work at the Design Week Awards in 2019 and was named a 2018 Creat...

Graphic designer and educator with more than 15 years of experience in her field, Natalia has a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Communication Design and a master’s degree in Science and Arts for Design from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, and a Ph. D. in Arts Education from the University of Victoria. Natalia has shared her original design process and vision in conferences and workshops aroun...

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-master studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland at the  department of Multimedia and Design. In 2003 as a Fulbright PhD scholar initiates a research related to the role of the symbols and iconography of the Balkan region. His works have been shown at 5 so...