Lefteris Heretakis MA RCA

Designer, educator & podcaster decoding #DesignEducation disruption | Founder @NewArtschool | Manifesto: Create like a child, rebel like an adult.

[Lefteris Heretakis MA RCA @heretakis]

Explore the World of #Design! Dive into our work, gain fresh insights from our transformative workshops, get inspired by 100+ episodes of #designeducation talks. It’s all here, waiting for you. Your next #creative breakthrough starts now—join us! https://t.co/X2ficzoXTm

[Lefteris Heretakis MA RCA @heretakis]

What happens when AI can generate millions of books, films, images, and campaigns every day?

According to Graham Fink, the challenge will no longer be creation.

The challenge will be remembrance.

Listen:
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[Lefteris Heretakis MA RCA @heretakis]

The problem is not that Jony Ive’s Ferrari is badly designed. The problem is deeper. It shows how elite design intelligence is too often used to polish the fantasies of the privileged few, while ordinary life becomes uglier, thinner and less humane.

https://t.co/FkXiZWCNU8

[Lefteris Heretakis MA RCA @heretakis]

The future designer will not be saved by software.

Nor will they be saved by rejecting software.

They will be saved by judgement, taste, courage, conviction and the ability to create meaning in a world overflowing with automated production.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: The Future Designer Must Stop Selling Time https://t.co/lYuuECPQ01

[Lefteris Heretakis MA RCA @heretakis]

Design Education Talks is now recording a new season. If you are a designer, educator, researcher, writer or creative practitioner with something meaningful to say about the future of design education, I would love to hear from you. https://t.co/rtqLrh4Jmf

[Lefteris Heretakis MA RCA @heretakis]

Your design superpower is not software. It is not prompts. It is not speed. It is the way you think, see, test, refine and make meaning. Join us in Milano this July.
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@DimitrisSavvid4 It’s disappointing to realize that some people will compromise their values when enough money or influence is involved.

[Lefteris Heretakis MA RCA @heretakis]

A student’s culture is not a limitation to be corrected. It is a place of knowledge, memory, taste and visual language. Design education must learn to sharpen that voice, not silence it.
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[Lefteris Heretakis MA RCA @heretakis]

Design Education Talks is not just a podcast. It is an open forum for the future of art and design education. It brings together voices from across the world to ask what creative learning must become. Support the work here: https://t.co/plAPy4t5tG

[Lefteris Heretakis MA RCA @heretakis]

Reality is not a brief.

Carlo Rovelli’s physics shows us a world made of relations, events and uncertainty.

Design education must learn the same lesson.

The output is not the learning.

https://t.co/xNEB348QRc

[Lefteris Heretakis MA RCA @heretakis]

Mirrorless cameras did not damage photography by being bad.

They changed it by becoming too perfect.

Now AI is doing something similar to design education: removing the friction that teaches judgement.

https://t.co/AOMauSdY5y

[Lefteris Heretakis MA RCA @heretakis]

What does it mean to teach design in an age of complexity? Dan Vlahos speaks about ambiguity, praxis, critical thinking and the need to prepare students for problems that cannot be solved by formula.
Listen now:
https://t.co/46DG6xaOC1

[Lefteris Heretakis MA RCA @heretakis]

Apple’s MacBook Neo campaign is not just clever advertising.
It is a cultural signal: the hand still matters.
The most convincing future will not be purely automated. It will be crafted.
https://t.co/3KTDop21Cl

[Lefteris Heretakis MA RCA @heretakis]

The machine has not suddenly become a serious #designer in the fullest sense. It has, however, become capable of producing a range of outputs that many schools, studios, agencies and clients have been willing to accept as proof of #design competence. https://t.co/Rnkr6KhvF2

[Lefteris Heretakis MA RCA @heretakis]

Claude Design is not the story of machines becoming designers. It is the story of design education being forced to confront how much of their work had already been reduced to polished output, procedural fluency, and the appearance of thought.
https://t.co/m6DPPil7ZD

[Lefteris Heretakis MA RCA @heretakis]

Will social media addiction go the way of cigarettes?
Smoking among the rich has declined dramatically and digital dependency could follow a similar pattern. https://t.co/E7DywkQ6Wj

[Lefteris Heretakis MA RCA @heretakis]

Yale is right to worry about devices in the classroom. But the deeper issue is that universities have already hollowed out the classroom long before the phone arrived. Device free is only the beginning. Formation must come next. https://t.co/UdU1iYZidi

[Lefteris Heretakis MA RCA @heretakis]

Design schools keeps telling us that they preparing students for the future. They speak endlessly about creativity, innovation, resilience, and adaptability. But the truth is far less flattering... https://t.co/5jDO8rkqML

[Lefteris Heretakis MA RCA @heretakis]

The best news! Learn more: https://t.co/ABVY7Iv5lI

[Lefteris Heretakis MA RCA @heretakis]

Jan Kubasiewicz didn’t just teach design.
He designed education itself.
And that may be the most radical idea of all.

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