Harry Pearce

Graphic Design & Illustration/2010/44 min/Reel № 10.001

ByHarry Pearce

Harry Pearce on useful uselessness in graphic design

Let It Out!/Recorded 2010

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Harry Pearce 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 United Kingdom in 2010, the conversation is grounded in Harry'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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Conundrums, dreams and fluttering butterflies. Harry Pearce talks about his graphic design process.

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About the speaker

Harry Pearce

London/United Kingdom

Harry Pearce is a graphic designer and partner at Pentagram's London office.