Seymour Chwast at Design Indaba Conference 2013.

Graphic Design & Illustration/2013/32 min/Reel № 13.001

BySeymour Chwast , Michael Bierut

Seymour Chwast on God, sex and war

The Best of the World's Creativity/Recorded 2013

A close reading, kept within reach.

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The short version

Seymour Chwast 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 2013, the conversation is grounded in Seymour'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, renowned graphic designer and illustrator Seymour Chwast speaks about his compulsion to draw.

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About the speaker

Seymour Chwast

New York/USA

Seymour Chwast is a graphic designer and founding partner of Push Pin Studios.

Michael Bierut

New York/USA

Pentagram partner Michael Bierut is the winner of hundreds of design awards and has work in permanent collections including MOMA and the Met in New York City.