Information Design/2011/37 min/Reel № 11.001
ByBen Fry
Ben Fry on data design
What Will Creativity Hold for the Future?/Recorded 2011
A close reading, kept within reach.
Ben Fry takes information 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 USA in 2011, the conversation is grounded in Ben'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.
Ben Fry applies design to complex data to make it more understandable and more visually appealing.
About the speaker
Ben Fry
Boston/USA
Ben Fry takes complex data and visualises it in an aesthetically pleasing and easily understandable way.
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