Andy Chen on an inside-out process to social design

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.

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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.

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For Andy Chen, design should be used to build empathy and to bring about social change.

Andy Chen

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Andy Chen

Rhode Island/USA

Andy Chen is a graphic designer and ethnographer who advocates for marginalised populations.