Michael Wolff: The story of four rooms

Design Thinking/2016/4 min/Reel № 16.001

ByMichael Wolff

Michael Wolff: The story of four rooms

Experience the Wonder of Creativity/Recorded 2016

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Michael Wolff takes design thinking 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 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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Design consultant Michael Wolff encourages young designers to trust in their ability to create something new.

Michael Wolff, founder of Wolff Olins

About the speaker

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.