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.
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.
At Design Indaba Conference 2011, Richard Hart speaks about how the uselessness of a design can be poetic and beautiful.
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.
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