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...
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January 17, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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If #design shapes the world, then #designeducation shapes the #designers who shape the world. linktr.ee/thenewartsch...
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A revolution in teaching and learning Art and Design.
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January 16, 2026 at 10:51 AM
If #design shapes the world, then #designeducation shapes the #designers who shape the world. linktr.ee/thenewartsch...
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January 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
“Create like a child, think like an adult, question like a rebel” isn’t theory, it’s a lived map for navigating uncertainty. heretakis.medium.com/create-like-...
Create Like a Child, Think Like an Adult, Question Like a Rebel: A Manifesto for Reimagining Art…
By Lefteris Heretakis, Founder of the New Art School
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January 14, 2026 at 9:22 AM
“Create like a child, think like an adult, question like a rebel” isn’t theory, it’s a lived map for navigating uncertainty. heretakis.medium.com/create-like-...
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A designer who cannot draw, cannot think. @minimastersart.bsky.social
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…
heretakis.medium.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A designer who cannot draw, cannot think. @minimastersart.bsky.social
The future of design education will not be built by adding more tools, more software, or more metrics.
It will be built by telling a different story.
One where education is not a service. But a journey that changes the person who undertakes it.
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It will be built by telling a different story.
One where education is not a service. But a journey that changes the person who undertakes it.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/design...
Design Education Is a Story We Are Telling Wrong
Propp, structure, and The New Art School The crisis of design education is not technological. It is not generational.
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January 13, 2026 at 4:04 PM
The future of design education will not be built by adding more tools, more software, or more metrics.
It will be built by telling a different story.
One where education is not a service. But a journey that changes the person who undertakes it.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/design...
It will be built by telling a different story.
One where education is not a service. But a journey that changes the person who undertakes it.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/design...
The old pyramid of hierarchy is reaching its limits. Built for control and repetition, it no longer fits a world of complexity and change. The circle is not a metaphor. It is a structural shift. This is where results now emerge.
heretakis.medium.com/from-the-pyr...
heretakis.medium.com/from-the-pyr...
From the Pyramid to the Circle
Authority, education, and the unfinished project of modernity
heretakis.medium.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:50 AM
The old pyramid of hierarchy is reaching its limits. Built for control and repetition, it no longer fits a world of complexity and change. The circle is not a metaphor. It is a structural shift. This is where results now emerge.
heretakis.medium.com/from-the-pyr...
heretakis.medium.com/from-the-pyr...
If you want comfort, skip it. If you want #clarity, challenge, and a dangerous spark of optimism read it. This book is the companion today’s #designer actually needs. wdo.org/event/launch...
WDO
Launch of the “Symbiotic Design Framework” Book
Launch of the “Symbiotic Design Framework” Book – WDO
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December 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
If you want comfort, skip it. If you want #clarity, challenge, and a dangerous spark of optimism read it. This book is the companion today’s #designer actually needs. wdo.org/event/launch...
True #authenticity demands conviction, risk and the courage to stand apart from polished neutrality. It is the opposite of strategic self expression. It is a stance, not a style. heretakis.medium.com/authenticity...
Authenticity Is The Buzzword Everyone Is Afraid To Truly Create
Every industry chants the same mantra. Be authentic. Be real. Be yourself. But beneath this chorus of enthusiasm lies a deeper truth that…
heretakis.medium.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
True #authenticity demands conviction, risk and the courage to stand apart from polished neutrality. It is the opposite of strategic self expression. It is a stance, not a style. heretakis.medium.com/authenticity...
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.
thenewartschool.substack.com
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…
heretakis.medium.com
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.
newartschool.education
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...
Reposted by Lefteris Heretakis
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
Reposted by Lefteris Heretakis
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
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November 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
first episode of our podcast on spotify with video! open.spotify.com/episode/1T08...
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…
heretakis.medium.com
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
adobe.design
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...
