Marcello Serpa on stage at 2014 Design Indaba Conference.

Graphic Design & Illustration/2014/Reel № 14.001

ByMarcello Serpa

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A Better Future Through Design/Recorded 2014

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Marcello Serpa 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 Brazil in 2014, the conversation is grounded in Marcello'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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Marcello Serpa

Sao Paulo/Brazil

Brazilian-born Marcello Serpa is a partner and the creative director of AlmapBBDO.