Karlssonwilker Inc on graphic design with humour

Graphic Design & Illustration/2008/43 min/Reel № 08.001

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Karlssonwilker Inc on graphic design with humour

South African Design Week/Recorded 2008

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Karlssonwilker Inc 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 USA in 2008, the conversation is grounded in Karlssonwilker'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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Karlssonwilker enlighten listeners on the founding of their company and the designs they have created since 2000.

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Karlssonwilker Inc

New York/USA

Karlssonwilker inc. is a design studio located in the heart of Manhattan, founded by Icelander Hjalti Karlsson and Jan Wilker from Germany.