
Graphic Design & Illustration/2012/11 min/Reel № 12.001
ByAndy Chen
Andy Chen on an inside-out process to social design
I Am Not a Designer/Recorded 2012
A close reading, kept within reach.
Andy Chen takes graphic design & illustration as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in USA in 2012, the conversation is grounded in Andy's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
For Andy Chen, design should be used to build empathy and to bring about social change.

About the speaker
Andy Chen
Rhode Island/USA
Andy Chen is a graphic designer and ethnographer who advocates for marginalised populations.
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