New York-based graphic designer Emily Oberman has been working on the title credits for Saturday Night Live for the last 20 years

Graphic Design & Illustration/2015/1 min/Reel № 15.001

ByEmily Oberman

Trailer: Emily Oberman on 20 years of design and redesign

Make. Change./Recorded 2015

New York-based graphic designer Emily Oberman has been working on the title credits for Saturday Night Live for the last 20 years
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A close reading, kept within reach.

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Emily Oberman 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 2015, the conversation is grounded in Emily'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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New York-based graphic designer Emily Oberman has been working on the title credits for Saturday Night Live for the last 20 years.

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Emily Oberman

New York/USA

Emily Oberman’s work in the entertainment and hospitality industries has demonstrated how design can be integral to the creation of brand identity.