Ordinary people can choose to be extraordinary. My latest essay, Becoming the Designer You Already Are, explores how designers can cultivate curiosity, clarity, and courage to create work that is authentic, impactful, and uniquely their own. This is...
Apple’s new iPhone 17 Pro typography has broken with decades of restraint. The once-silent brand now shouts in bold, extended letters, a move that reveals as much about design’s future as it does about Apple’s loss of typographic grace. 👉 Read...
Design education once promised to shape the world, to merge imagination with ethics, and aesthetics with humanity. But that dream has been diluted by the demands of the market, the metrics of employability, and the spectacle of consumption. This essa...
There is no design without devotion. No progress without persistence. No education without commitment.My latest essay, The Discipline of Commitment in Design Education, explores what it truly means to stay with the process — to teach, to learn, and t...
In a world obsessed with speed, spectacle and the next big trend, it is rare to find voices urging us to slow down, to touch, feel, imagine and question. In his new conversation with The New Art School, #designer, #educator and #creative thinker Gwen...
Roots | Routes in Design Cumulus Athens 2026 conference calling for papers!The theme explores the interdependency between our past and our future as a fundamental value for devising pathways in Design. The working hypothesis of this conference is tha...
“#Creativity may flourish under constraint—but it suffocates under poverty.” #DesignEducation is being reshaped by privilege. If we don’t address it, diversity of thought will vanish. https://heretakis.medium.com/the-elephant-in-the-room-how-social-c...
#DesignEducation should do more than teach skills. It must cultivate #curiosity, #imagination, and the courage to think differently. Nietzsche warned that valuing sameness over difference corrupts young minds. Drawing on Freire, Montessori, Steiner,...
Design is a word that defies simple definition. It is both a noun and a verb, a process and a product, a practice that spans millennia yet remains elusive in its academic and cultural positioning. The short film Towards a Dynamic Discipline of Design...
Lefteris Heretakis stands at the intersection of inspiration and innovation. In “Igniting Creative Minds,” he opens a window into the artistic universe that fuels his work—sharing the stories, motivations, and philosophies that spark both personal ex...
