"The boy with a fire in his boot" by Carla Kreuser, Design Indaba Conference 2015, Young Graduates Panel.

Art & Photography/2015/1 min/Reel № 15.001

ByCarla Kreuser

Trailer: Carla Kreuser on why designing by hand still matters

Make. Change./Recorded 2015

"The boy with a fire in his boot" by Carla Kreuser, Design Indaba Conference 2015, Young Graduates Panel.
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A close reading, kept within reach.

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Carla Kreuser takes art & photography 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 2015, the conversation is grounded in Carla'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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Carla Kreuser pulled herself away from her computer screen and went back to basics, illustrating and binding an entire book by hand.

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About the speaker

Carla Kreuser

Cape Town/South Africa

Carla Kreuser is a creative director at The Jupiter Drawing Room in Cape Town.