Design Thinking/2014/42 min/Reel № 14.001
ByDJ Stout
DJ Stout on big hair, cowboy poets and planet Texas
A Better Future Through Design/Recorded 2014
A close reading, kept within reach.
DJ Stout takes design thinking 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 2014, the conversation is grounded in DJ'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.
The Austin-based graphic designer's work is an ode to cowboy country and the role of place in producing authentic design.
About the speaker
DJ Stout
Austin/USA
DJ Stout is a graphic designer and art director at Pentagram.
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