Ben Terrett at Design Indaba Conference 2013.

Information Design/2013/35 min/Reel № 13.001

ByBen Terrett

Ben Terrett on changing a culture through digital design

The Best of the World's Creativity/Recorded 2013

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Ben Terrett 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 United Kingdom in 2013, 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.

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Digital designer Ben Terrett explains his inspiration and design process in creating Gov.uk, an all-inclusive website for government services and information.

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Ben Terrett

London/United Kingdom

Ben Terrett is head of design at the Government Digital Service, Cabinet Office for the UK Government.