Michael Bierut

Graphic Design & Illustration/2010/36 min/Reel № 10.001

ByMichael Bierut

Michael Bierut: five lessons on graphic design

Let It Out!/Recorded 2010

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Michael Bierut 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 2010, the conversation is grounded in Michael'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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In graphic design it is essential to consider the needs of the people that are going to be living with the design, says Michael Bierut.

Michael Bierut - photo by Jake Chessum

About the speaker

Michael Bierut

New York/USA

Pentagram partner Michael Bierut is the winner of hundreds of design awards and has work in permanent collections including MOMA and the Met in New York City.