Paul Sahre on designing what you want

Graphic Design & Illustration/2012/38 min/Reel № 12.001

ByPaul Sahre

Paul Sahre on designing what you want

I Am Not a Designer/Recorded 2012

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Paul Sahre 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 2012, the conversation is grounded in Paul'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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Nothing interesting happens when you know where you’re going with something”, Paul Sahre believes.

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About the speaker

Paul Sahre

New York/USA

Paul Sahre (born 1964) is an American graphic designer perhaps best known for his book cover designs and illustrations for the New York Times.