Graphic Design & Illustration/2008/24 min/Reel № 08.001
ByHideki Inaba
Hideki Inaba on striking a balance between graphic design and commercial considerations
South African Design Week/Recorded 2008
A close reading, kept within reach.
Hideki Inaba 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 Hideki'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.
Graphic design should be something that’s easy to understand, almost instinctive, Hideki Inaba believes.
About the speaker
Hideki Inaba
International
Hideki Inaba has distinguished himself by following his instincts and expressing a personal sense of "now".
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