Graphic Design & Illustration/2008/26 min/Reel № 08.001
ByMirko Ilić
Mirko Ilić on graphic design as social commentary
South African Design Week/Recorded 2008
A close reading, kept within reach.
Mirko Ilić 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 2008, the conversation is grounded in Mirko'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.
Graphic design can be used as an effective means of communication to comment on various social issues, Mirko Ilić illustrates.
About the speaker
Mirko Ilić
New York/USA
Bosnian national, Mirko Ilić illustrated and art directed posters, record covers and comics in Europe before moving to the United States in 1986.
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