Lefteris Heretakis
@heretakis.bsky.social
Designer/Educator/Podcaster https://linktr.ee/thenewartschool
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How to Become a Designer (The Version No One Wants You to Read)
Design has been domesticated into a polite, portfolio-friendly profession, sanitised, aestheticised, stripped of its teeth.
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How to Become a #Designer (The Version No One Wants You to Read) thenewartschool.substack.com/p/how-to-bec...
How to Become a Designer (The Version No One Wants You to Read)
Design has been domesticated into a polite, portfolio-friendly profession—sanitised, aestheticised, stripped of its teeth. But design was never meant to be safe. It was meant to expose, to question, to disrupt.
Design has been domesticated into a polite, portfolio-friendly profession—sanitised, aestheticised, stripped of its teeth. But design was never meant to be safe. It was meant to expose, to question, to disrupt.
How to Become a Designer (The Version No One Wants You to Read)
Design has been domesticated into a polite, portfolio-friendly profession—sanitised, aestheticised, stripped of its teeth. But design was never meant to be safe. It was meant to expose, to question, to disrupt.
newartschool.education
December 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM
How to Become a Designer (The Version No One Wants You to Read)
Design has been domesticated into a polite, portfolio-friendly profession—sanitised, aestheticised, stripped of its teeth. But design was never meant to be safe. It was meant to expose, to question, to disrupt.
Design has been domesticated into a polite, portfolio-friendly profession—sanitised, aestheticised, stripped of its teeth. But design was never meant to be safe. It was meant to expose, to question, to disrupt.
How to Become a #Designer (The Version No One Wants You to Read) thenewartschool.substack.com/p/how-to-bec...
How to Become a Designer (The Version No One Wants You to Read)
Design has been domesticated into a polite, portfolio-friendly profession, sanitised, aestheticised, stripped of its teeth.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:29 AM
How to Become a #Designer (The Version No One Wants You to Read) thenewartschool.substack.com/p/how-to-bec...
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Lefteris Heretakis on what design education must become if it is to remain meaningful. https://ow.ly/g1hT50XA2yW
December 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Lefteris Heretakis on what design education must become if it is to remain meaningful. https://ow.ly/g1hT50XA2yW
Once you activate the #designer’s eye, the world becomes unbearable: you see inefficiencies everywhere, missed opportunities, thoughtless details, systems built without dignity, interfaces built without humanity. To become a #designer is to refuse to look away. heretakis.medium.com/how-to-becom...
How to Become a Designer:
Once you activate the designer’s eye, the world becomes unbearable: you see inefficiencies everywhere, missed opportunities…
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December 2, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Once you activate the #designer’s eye, the world becomes unbearable: you see inefficiencies everywhere, missed opportunities, thoughtless details, systems built without dignity, interfaces built without humanity. To become a #designer is to refuse to look away. heretakis.medium.com/how-to-becom...
The Future of Design Education: A Conversation with Jac Batey
As AI, economic pressures, and shifting employment landscapes reshape the industry, institutions must prioritise adaptability, collaboration, and critical thinking. The future belongs to those who embrace change, and educators like Jac…
As AI, economic pressures, and shifting employment landscapes reshape the industry, institutions must prioritise adaptability, collaboration, and critical thinking. The future belongs to those who embrace change, and educators like Jac…
The Future of Design Education: A Conversation with Jac Batey
As AI, economic pressures, and shifting employment landscapes reshape the industry, institutions must prioritise adaptability, collaboration, and critical thinking. The future belongs to those who embrace change, and educators like Jac Batey are leading the charge.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The Future of Design Education: A Conversation with Jac Batey
As AI, economic pressures, and shifting employment landscapes reshape the industry, institutions must prioritise adaptability, collaboration, and critical thinking. The future belongs to those who embrace change, and educators like Jac…
As AI, economic pressures, and shifting employment landscapes reshape the industry, institutions must prioritise adaptability, collaboration, and critical thinking. The future belongs to those who embrace change, and educators like Jac…
John Ruskin warned that separating labour from the maker damages society. Today, #AI divides agency, not effort. Students who make by hand reclaim agency, understanding, and value. #Craft #AIethics #DesignPedagogy medium.com/@heretakis/b...
Between the Hand and the Algorithm: Reclaiming Making in an Age of AI Acceleration
Something profound is happening in design and production, something few institutions are prepared to confront. As AI systems accelerate at…
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November 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
John Ruskin warned that separating labour from the maker damages society. Today, #AI divides agency, not effort. Students who make by hand reclaim agency, understanding, and value. #Craft #AIethics #DesignPedagogy medium.com/@heretakis/b...
If adults played like children—seriously, fearlessly, freely—we’d redesign society overnight.
Most institutions know this.
That’s why they suppress it.
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Most institutions know this.
That’s why they suppress it.
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Play Is Rebellion: Why The New Art School Manifesto Demands We Break Schooling Before It Breaks Us
Ruskin, Gatto, Postman and the End of Compulsory Obedience Play and schooling are not simply different. They are enemies.
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November 27, 2025 at 5:45 AM
If adults played like children—seriously, fearlessly, freely—we’d redesign society overnight.
Most institutions know this.
That’s why they suppress it.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/play-r...
Most institutions know this.
That’s why they suppress it.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/play-r...
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Lefteris Heretakis on why craft matters now. https://ow.ly/vWVN50Xe7bo
October 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Lefteris Heretakis on why craft matters now. https://ow.ly/vWVN50Xe7bo
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Zines, Books, and Beyond: The Practice of Jac Batey
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November 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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WAIL celebrates these intimate relationships made between #art, #artist, #music & #listener. via @thedailyheller.bsky.social
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The Daily Heller: All That Jazzy Record Cover Design – PRINT Magazine
'WAIL' celebrates the intimate relationships between art, artist, music and listener.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
WAIL celebrates these intimate relationships made between #art, #artist, #music & #listener. via @thedailyheller.bsky.social
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Educators face a vital challenge: to resist the pressure of popular opinion and instead teach what is true. Art and design education must cultivate intellectual autonomy, creativity, and critical thinking. heretakis.medium.com/the-power-of...
The Power of the Educator’s Voice: Embracing Truth over Popularity in Art and Design Education
In the ever-shifting landscape of art and design, where trends and fads often dominate the discourse, educators face a vital challenge: to…
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November 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Educators face a vital challenge: to resist the pressure of popular opinion and instead teach what is true. Art and design education must cultivate intellectual autonomy, creativity, and critical thinking. heretakis.medium.com/the-power-of...
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Lefteris Heretakis on the future of the design school. https://ow.ly/luqf50Xu8eh
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Lefteris Heretakis on the future of the design school. https://ow.ly/luqf50Xu8eh
Design education is at a crossroads. AI can generate images in seconds, but it can’t cultivate judgement, imagination or moral responsibility. If we want schools to produce thinkers not prompt-engineers, we must radically rethink what (and why) we teach. heretakis.medium.com/the-future-o...
The Future of the Design School: Learning, Making and Meaning in an Age of Noise.
Design education stands at a moment of profound uncertainty. The landscape around us has shifted in ways that are both thrilling and…
heretakis.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Design education is at a crossroads. AI can generate images in seconds, but it can’t cultivate judgement, imagination or moral responsibility. If we want schools to produce thinkers not prompt-engineers, we must radically rethink what (and why) we teach. heretakis.medium.com/the-future-o...
There will be #design. There will be #industry. There will be #art. For now. adobe.design/stories/lead...
Creativity is human
Thoughts on the future of work in the age of AI
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November 19, 2025 at 6:19 AM
There will be #design. There will be #industry. There will be #art. For now. adobe.design/stories/lead...
first episode of our podcast on spotify with video! open.spotify.com/episode/1T08...
Zines, Books, and Beyond: The Practice of Jac Batey
Spotify video
open.spotify.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
first episode of our podcast on spotify with video! open.spotify.com/episode/1T08...
Britain's Governing Class Can't Build Anything. By Design.
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Why Britain Can’t Achieve Anything
In Britain, the Planning is the Project
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November 12, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Britain's Governing Class Can't Build Anything. By Design.
boomerdammerung.substack.com/p/why-britai...
boomerdammerung.substack.com/p/why-britai...
SoTL Guide is a practical, accessible and engaging book that guides readers through clear steps to develop their own scholarship of teaching and learning.The authors invite readers to share their views of what “doing SoTL” might mean. www.centerforengagedlearning.org/books/the-so...
The SoTL Guide
The SoTL Guide Center for Engaged Learning
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November 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
SoTL Guide is a practical, accessible and engaging book that guides readers through clear steps to develop their own scholarship of teaching and learning.The authors invite readers to share their views of what “doing SoTL” might mean. www.centerforengagedlearning.org/books/the-so...
Are you following trends or following yourself? Awaken your #design journey and create work that truly matters. www.linkedin.com/pulse/becomi...
Becoming the Designer You Already Are
The challenge in design today is not the crowd but the chorus. Too many designers are trying to sing the same note, to echo one another’s aesthetics, to produce safe and predictable work.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Are you following trends or following yourself? Awaken your #design journey and create work that truly matters. www.linkedin.com/pulse/becomi...
When Form Forgets Function: The Typographic Overconfidence of Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro
Apple used to speak softly, now it shouts. The iPhone 17 Pro’s new typography is bold, extended, and loud. But in chasing power, has Apple sacrificed the restraint that made its design language timeless? Our latest…
Apple used to speak softly, now it shouts. The iPhone 17 Pro’s new typography is bold, extended, and loud. But in chasing power, has Apple sacrificed the restraint that made its design language timeless? Our latest…
When Form Forgets Function: The Typographic Overconfidence of Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro
Apple used to speak softly, now it shouts. The iPhone 17 Pro’s new typography is bold, extended, and loud. But in chasing power, has Apple sacrificed the restraint that made its design language timeless? Our latest article unpacks this visual shift and critiques how the company’s typographic voice has grown too heavy for its own harmony.
newartschool.education
October 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
When Form Forgets Function: The Typographic Overconfidence of Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro
Apple used to speak softly, now it shouts. The iPhone 17 Pro’s new typography is bold, extended, and loud. But in chasing power, has Apple sacrificed the restraint that made its design language timeless? Our latest…
Apple used to speak softly, now it shouts. The iPhone 17 Pro’s new typography is bold, extended, and loud. But in chasing power, has Apple sacrificed the restraint that made its design language timeless? Our latest…
The new iPhone 17 Pro wordmark isn’t progress — it’s noise.
Apple traded proportion for power, clarity for spectacle.
Tschichold would have winced. heretakis.medium.com/when-form-fo...
Apple traded proportion for power, clarity for spectacle.
Tschichold would have winced. heretakis.medium.com/when-form-fo...
When Form Forgets Function: The Typographic Overconfidence of Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro
Apple’s new iPhone 17 Pro typography trades elegance for ego, a bold move that shouts where silence once spoke.
heretakis.medium.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:10 AM
The new iPhone 17 Pro wordmark isn’t progress — it’s noise.
Apple traded proportion for power, clarity for spectacle.
Tschichold would have winced. heretakis.medium.com/when-form-fo...
Apple traded proportion for power, clarity for spectacle.
Tschichold would have winced. heretakis.medium.com/when-form-fo...
Craft for the AI Age
A manifesto for mindful design education. It calls for a return to craft as the foundation of judgement, ethics, and creativity in an automated world, reminding us that true innovation begins with care, reflection, and human discernment.
A manifesto for mindful design education. It calls for a return to craft as the foundation of judgement, ethics, and creativity in an automated world, reminding us that true innovation begins with care, reflection, and human discernment.
Craft for the AI Age
A manifesto for mindful design education. It calls for a return to craft as the foundation of judgement, ethics, and creativity in an automated world, reminding us that true innovation begins with care, reflection, and human discernment.
newartschool.education
October 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Craft for the AI Age
A manifesto for mindful design education. It calls for a return to craft as the foundation of judgement, ethics, and creativity in an automated world, reminding us that true innovation begins with care, reflection, and human discernment.
A manifesto for mindful design education. It calls for a return to craft as the foundation of judgement, ethics, and creativity in an automated world, reminding us that true innovation begins with care, reflection, and human discernment.
True #Creativity Is Priceless: How Education Lost Its Imagination app.inspo.expert/post?postID=...
INSPO | The Social Network for Thought Leadership
INSPO Experts is the social network for professional thought leadership. INSPO allows professionals to build, share, and monetise their thought leadership portfolios with ease. Build your very own exp...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
True #Creativity Is Priceless: How Education Lost Its Imagination app.inspo.expert/post?postID=...
True Creativity Is Priceless: How Education Lost Its Imagination
Contemporary education for prioritising compliance over creativity, reducing students to passive recipients of knowledge. Influenced by thinkers like Ruskin and Freire, we argues that this mechanisation makes AI appear intelligent…
Contemporary education for prioritising compliance over creativity, reducing students to passive recipients of knowledge. Influenced by thinkers like Ruskin and Freire, we argues that this mechanisation makes AI appear intelligent…
True Creativity Is Priceless: How Education Lost Its Imagination
Contemporary education for prioritising compliance over creativity, reducing students to passive recipients of knowledge. Influenced by thinkers like Ruskin and Freire, we argues that this mechanisation makes AI appear intelligent while genuine creativity suffers. To reclaim education, we must foster imagination and critical thinking in learners.
newartschool.education
October 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
True Creativity Is Priceless: How Education Lost Its Imagination
Contemporary education for prioritising compliance over creativity, reducing students to passive recipients of knowledge. Influenced by thinkers like Ruskin and Freire, we argues that this mechanisation makes AI appear intelligent…
Contemporary education for prioritising compliance over creativity, reducing students to passive recipients of knowledge. Influenced by thinkers like Ruskin and Freire, we argues that this mechanisation makes AI appear intelligent…
Protecting the freedom to #read is inseparable from protecting the freedom to #think. heretakis.medium.com/the-peril-of...
The Peril of Book Bans and the Future of Higher Education
It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people. Heinrich Heine
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October 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Protecting the freedom to #read is inseparable from protecting the freedom to #think. heretakis.medium.com/the-peril-of...