Graphic Design & Illustration/2008/46 min/Reel № 08.001
ByGert Dumbar
Gert Dumbar on the designer as author
South African Design Week/Recorded 2008
A close reading, kept within reach.
Gert Dumbar 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 International in 2008, the conversation is grounded in Gert'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.
Gert Dumbar talks about the designer in the role of author.
About the speaker
Gert Dumbar
International
After completing his at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague and the Royal College of Art in London, Gert Dumbar opened the now prolific Studio Dumbar.
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