Dean Poole at Design Indaba Conference 2014.

Graphic Design & Illustration/2014/Reel № 14.001

ByDean Poole

Dean Poole on playing with words (trailer)

A Better Future Through Design/Recorded 2014

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Dean Poole 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 New Zealand in 2014, the conversation is grounded in Dean'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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"Part of the system of creativity is creating the rules," says Dean Poole at Design Indaba Conference 2014.

Dean Poole of Alt Group.

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Dean Poole

Auckland/New Zealand

Dean Poole is co-founder and creative director of Alt Group, a multidisciplinary design studio based in New Zealand.