BarberOsgerby at Design Indaba 2009

Product Design/2009/38 min/Reel № 09.001

ByBarberOsgerby

BarberOsgerby: experimentation with colour and form

What Can Your Creativity Do?/Recorded 2009

A close reading, kept within reach.

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BarberOsgerby takes product design 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 United Kingdom in 2009, the conversation is grounded in BarberOsgerby'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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Experimenting is an important part of the creative process for design duo BarberOsgerby.

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BarberOsgerby

London/United Kingdom

Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby founded their eponymous design studio BarberOsgerby in 1996.