Richard Hart at Design Indaba 2011

Graphic Design & Illustration/2011/31 min/Reel № 11.001

ByRichard Hart

Richard Hart on the stuff of creativity

What Will Creativity Hold for the Future?/Recorded 2011

A close reading, kept within reach.

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The short version

Richard Hart 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 South Africa in 2011, the conversation is grounded in Richard'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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At Design Indaba Conference 2011, Richard Hart speaks about how the uselessness of a design can be poetic and beautiful.

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About the speaker

Richard Hart

Durban/South Africa

Richard Hart is a designer, illustrator, type nut and – most recently – a weekend artists who is happiest when he is making.