Lefteris Heretakis

Lefteris is a designer and a lecturer. Since 1996, Lefteris has worked as a visual communicator with a wide range of clients ranging from startups to multinationals. Since 2009 he has been teaching Visual Communication in Higher Education internationally. Currently he is teaching Design in IE University in Madrid, Spain. His reflexive research is focused on the real world challenges in education and the unprecedented shifts that have taken place over the past 20 years. Lefteris is the host of Design Education Talks podcast by the New Art School, founded in 2015 and Designers Talk podcast by the Chartered Society of Designers. Since 2019 Lefteris has also organised Design Education Forum, an international two day event that brings practitioners from all over the world, to share their teaching experience and their similarities and differences in teaching Art and Design at an international level, while rediscovering the common language of visual communication and proposing creative, direct and applicable solutions to the challenges that affect design education today.