Creative Economy/2010/32 min/Reel № 10.001
ByManabu Mizuno
"Design Samurai" Manabu Mizuno on the possibilities of design
Let It Out!/Recorded 2010
A close reading, kept within reach.
Manabu Mizuno takes creative economy 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 Japan in 2010, the conversation is grounded in Manabu'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.
Manabu Mizuno likes to refer to himself as a design samurai, in a very positive sense.
About the speaker
Manabu Mizuno
Tokyo/Japan
Manabu Mizuno studied graphic design at Tama Art University. After graduating in 1996, he joined the advertising company Pablo Production.
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