Design Education Talks Ep. 69 – Shalini Prasad

Lefteris Heretakis

Graham Fink – Why Process Matters More Than Finish in Creative Work – Design Education Talks

Graham Fink is one of those rare creative figures whose career refuses to fit neatly into a single title. Creative director, art director, writer, artist, technologist, musician, filmmaker and educator, his practice moves fluidly across disciplines, cultures, and technologies. From global advertising leadership roles to experimental art-making, from working with robotics and AI to developing tools that allow him to draw using only his eyes, Graham’s work is driven by a restless curiosity and a deep belief in the power of ideas to cut through sameness.Alongside his commercial and artistic practice, Graham has spent decades committed to creative education and mentorship. Through initiatives such as Think Different and the relaunch of his influential Art School, he has challenged conventional models of learning, advocating for experimentation, cross-pollination, and thinking before polish. In this conversation, we explore creativity as a way of seeing the world, the dangers of mediocrity in an age of speed and AI, and why difference, curiosity, and discomfort remain essential tools for the next generation of creatives.Since its inception in 2019, Design Education Talks podcast has served as a dynamic platform for the exchange of insights and ideas within the realm of art and design education. This initiative sprang from a culmination of nearly a decade of extensive research conducted by Lefteris Heretakis. His rich background, intertwining academia, industry, and student engagement, laid the foundation for a podcast that goes beyond the conventional boundaries of educational discourse.See all of our work on on https://linktr.ee/thenewartschoolFollow us on twitter at @newartschoolRead our latest articles at https://newartschool.education/and https://heretakis.medium.com/Equipment used to produce the podcast:Rodcaster pro IIRode NT1 5th generationElgato Low profile Microphone ArmMonster Prolink Studio Pro microphone cableThe rest of the equipment is here 👉https://kit.co/heretakis/podcasting
  1. Graham Fink – Why Process Matters More Than Finish in Creative Work
  2. Dan Vlahos – Dynamic Media, Critical Thinking, and Design Pedagogy
  3. Jan Kubasiewicz on Teaching Design as a System of Meaning
  4. Nikolaus Hafermaas – Berlin Unplugged: Design, Education, and the Courage to Disrupt
  5. The Future of Learning with Christian Dominique: AI, Neuroscience and the Art of Wellness in Education

Shalini Prasad is an educator, integrative designer, brand consultant, and graphic artist. She runs her own design practice under DeSha Consulting and teaches visual communication and typography at the College of Art and Design at Lesley University. In addition to her professional and academic roles, she is a classical trained dancer, and actor. She loves traversing the many modalities of the creative arts along with the performing arts and believes that each informs the other, fuelling her overall nebulous, no man’s lands, trans-disciplinary artistic ideology (that she has finally made peace with! 🙂

Shalini’s collaborative and inclusive methodology enable her to seamlessly grasp, traverse, and interpret various modalities of design in both two and three dimensions, while fearlessly dismissing conventional boundaries, whether she is designing a brand,  a space, or a curriculum. With over twenty years of diverse experience, an interdisciplinary education in architecture, graphic design and art, she demonstrates a deep passion for storytelling and an innate artistic and analytical sensibility, whether she is studying the minutiae of typography with her students or designing larger movements of design in space for her clients.

Shalini moved to the US twenty years ago from India, having lived in 15 cities including England, the Middle East, and the US, with Boston as her home for the past three. You can find her in a happy trance doing the following: improv cooking, singing, home decorating, doing word games, running, playing the guitar, solving math riddles and reading memoirs.

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