Michael Bierut runs us through some of his major projects and the thought processes behind them: a rare opportunity to get into his award-winning mind. Image: The identity MAD for the Museum of Arts and Design, shown on various sets of card. © Pentagram

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

ByMichael Bierut

Trailer: Michael Bierut on how to think like a designer

Make. Change./Recorded 2015

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Michael Bierut 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 Michael'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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Michael Bierut runs us through some of his major projects and the thought processes behind them: a rare opportunity to get into his award-winning mind.

Michael Bierut - photo by Jake Chessum

About the speaker

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.