Graphic Design & Illustration/2009/52 min/Reel № 09.001
ByRick Valicenti
Rick Valicenti on the real human presence in design
What Can Your Creativity Do?/Recorded 2009
A close reading, kept within reach.
Rick Valicenti 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 2009, the conversation is grounded in Rick'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.
Finding the real human presence in design is a big task, but one that Rick Valicenti finds particularly interesting.
About the speaker
Rick Valicenti
Chicago/USA
Rick Valicenti is founder and design director of Thirst, a communication design firm devoted to art, function and real human presence.
Where this goes next.
AI-curated · based on transcript themes, not tags
