Sir John Hegarty at Design Indaba Conference 2013.

Information Design/2013/39 min/Reel № 13.001

BySir John Hegarty

Sir John Hegarty on challenging the status quo

The Best of the World's Creativity/Recorded 2013

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Sir John Hegarty takes information design 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 United Kingdom in 2013, the conversation is grounded in Sir'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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It’s our job to get out there and fight for great ideas; it’s creative people that will make the change," Sir John Hegarty said at Design Indaba Conference.

Sir John Hegarty

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Sir John Hegarty

London/United Kingdom

Advertising guru Sir John Hegarty is a creative director and founder of Bartle Bogle Hegarty advertising