Design Education Talks

Louise O’Boyle is Acting Head of Belfast School of Art, Ulster University and Secretary of GLADHE, the UK-based Group for Learning in Art & Design in Higher Education. Supporting the learning of students both inside and outside of the studio has been a key driver in the evolution of her research, leadership and teaching practices over the past two decades.  Her pedagogical research focuses on...

Frank Peters  FCSD CDir FIoD Chief Executive of the Chartered Society of Designers and The Register of Chartered Designers Honorary Secretary Prince Philip Designers Prize As Chief Executive of the Chartered Society of Designers (CSD) since 2001, Frank has applied his vast experience of design and commerce to running CSD, developing its strategy and designing and developing international initiativ...

Tea Uglow has worked at Google for over 12 years, starting Google’s Creative Lab in Europe and, since 2012, building a Creative Lab for the Asia Pacific region in Sydney, Australia.  She works with cultural organisations and practitioners to enable artists, writers and performers to look at new ways in which we can use digital technology to augment traditional art, theatre and music. Uglow believe...

Derek Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Design at The Open University (UK) and part of the OU Design Group. He is a member of the team responsible for U101: Design Thinking, the award-winning entry-level design course for the university’s Design and Innovation degree. His main research interests are: the pedagogy of design and creativity, embodied cognition in physical and virtual environments, and th...

Richard trained in art at four different art schools. In the early 90’s he became fascinated by computers and became a pioneering computer artist and award-winning teacher of art and music. Since then he has applied his art and creativity to solving tech problems for large business and has been a pioneer in interactive TV, made games, worked as a programmer, creative director, head of digital and...

Joan Quirós is an independent calligrapher and lettering artist based in Valencia, Spain, where he works for the rest of the world. As a letterforms enthusiast, he started to get interested in them during his teenage years, passion which became reinforced in the course of the Graphic Design Degree which he studied in his home town. He also has great respect for the historical tradition of writing...

Murat Germen is an artist, academic and archivist using photography as an expression / research tool. Born 1965, he currently lives / works in Istanbul and London. Has an MArch degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he went as a Fulbright scholar and received AIA Henry Adams Gold Medal for academic excellence. Works as a professor of art, photography and new media at Sabanci Univ...

Barış Atiker is a motion designer and instructor living in Istanbul, Turkey. He has a Proficiency in Art (2009) degree on Motion Graphics Animation and he is currently teaching Motion Typography, 2/3D Motion Design and Interaction Design at Bahcesehir University. With nearly 20 years of design experience in leading and developing creative teams, he has worked for many award-winning international b...

How can artists contribute to our perceptions of social, political, issues, war and conflict when we receive so much of our information via the media and internet?  Gary Embury ( http://reportager.uwe.ac.uk ) is an illustrator and senior lecturer at the University of the West of England. He is editor in chief of the online journal www.reportager.org He has made work for many clients including The...

It is our pleasure to share with you a podcast that was created and recorded by Peter Bella, designer, lecturer and host of the Design Dedux podcast, partner of Design Education Talks podcast. Alma Hoffmann is an editor at Smashing Magazine, design educator, and a freelance designer. You can find her on Twitter @almahoffmann and on her blog almahoffmann.com. She also wrote the articles “Finding Al...

It is our pleasure to share with you a podcast that was recorded by our partner in the United States, Peter Bella, designer, lecturer and host of the Design Dedux podcast. Meaghan Dee is both a practicing graphic designer and a design educator. Currently, Meaghan serves as Chair for the Graphic Design program at Virginia Tech and as Co-Chair of the AIGA Design Educators Community (AIGA DEC) Execut...

Experienced designer+educator creating learning experiences+creative events for individuals, schools+businesses within #art , #design , #technology , #creativeprocess #communication #innovation #culture + #entrepreneurship . With nearly two decades working in the design industry, Jenny can now be found working with some of the world’s leading schools, as well as helping corporate companies become...

DESIGN EDUCATION: A FRAMEWORK FOR THE FUTURE. A special off the series podcast from the DESIGNSCAPES POLICY FORUM: DESIGN AND PUBLIC POLICY A TWO WAY STREET. Co-hosted organised by the Econcult of the University of Valencia and the Valencia Capital Association of Disseny, with the support of Centro Cultural La Nau of University of Valencia, La Ciutat de les Artes i les Ciencies, and the municipal...

Sanmitra Chitte  has extensive experience as an innovation, design management, marketing and user experience-insights research, graphic design, visual merchandising, communication design, design strategy and user experience design professional collectively. She has strong client interaction skills, delivering strategic thinking across all levels. She demonstrates great skills in integrating design...

Michael Johnson has pretty much seen it all. He’s had nine jobs and was fired from three of them, before deciding he’d become unemployable. He started Johnson Banks in London 28 years ago. He now has clients across the globe. His company is known for how they define, then design, brands that make a difference. They work with people who want to do big things: tackle hunger; fight for an open intern...

A deep insight into design and designers by Simon Dixon of Dixon Baxi Simon Dixon is a co-founder of DixonBaxi. He has 25 years of international experience having opened studios in the North of England, London [twice], New York and San Francisco. Through DixonBaxi, Simon has forged a reputation as one of the leading practitioners of branding, design and their roles across all platforms. His work f...

Phil Cleaver is an established and multi award-winning heavyweight in the graphic design world. Protégé of Anthony Froshaug, Phil honed his design and typographic skills under Alan Fletcher at Pentagram, Wim Crouwel at TD in Holland, and Michael Wolff at Wolff Olins. In 1984 Allied International Designers recruited Phil as creative director of branding. In 1987 he established CleaverLandor, a spec...