Graphic Design & Illustration/2016/28 min/Reel № 16.001
ByMargaret Calvert
Margaret Calvert on work and play over 60 years in graphic design
Experience the Wonder of Creativity/Recorded 2016
A close reading, kept within reach.
Margaret Calvert 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 2016, the conversation is grounded in Margaret'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.
South African-born graphic designer Margaret Calvert, OBE is best known for the signs she helped design for Britain's roads. You can now watch her full talk.
About the speaker
Margaret Calvert
United Kingdom
Margaret Calvert is a graphic designer known for her design of road signs in the United Kingdom, as well as the typefaces Calvert and Transport.
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