Michael Wolff

Graphic Design & Illustration/2011/33 min/Reel № 11.001

ByMichael Wolff

Michael Wolff on keeping ideas disposable

What Will Creativity Hold for the Future?/Recorded 2011

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Michael Wolff 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 2011, 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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Exercise your idea-creating capacity by throwing away good ideas. Michael Wolff explains how this works.

Michael Wolff, founder of Wolff Olins

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Michael Wolff

London/United Kingdom

Michael Wolff is a co-founder of one of the world’s most iconic design companies – Wolff Olins – and is recognised today as a leader in thinking on brands.