
Industrial Design/2008/36 min/Reel № 08.001
ByTucker Viemeister
Tucker Viemeister: it always costs more not to design
South African Design Week/Recorded 2008
A close reading, kept within reach.
Tucker Viemeister takes industrial 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 International in 2008, the conversation is grounded in Tucker'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.
For Tucker Viemeister, design is about persuasion, inspiration and trust.

About the speaker
Tucker Viemeister
International
BusinessWeek's "guru", overachiever Tucker Viemeister also founded Smart Design and is a fellow of Industrial Designers Society of America.
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