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AGDA: Conversations with Designers

August 30, 2011

“I just say that everything that is around you has either been designed or it’s an accident. I mean if you’re walking upstairs and you see a bit of bird shit on the staircase, I mean the bird shit is an accident but the staircase has been designed…” – Max Robinson I recently came across the Australian Graphic [...]

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Something for the Weekend

June 3, 2011

Old Fashioned, Foldy, Inky Things — Daniel Gray (fellow member of the fictional League of Daniels) interviews Ben Olins and Jane Smillie about creating the wonderful Herb Lester city maps: Old fashioned, foldy, inky things have personality, something which Google maps and web guides lack. But the limitations of the format also force you to be [...]

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Milton Glaser: Embrace the Failure

May 13, 2011

To promote their graduation exhibition in May, students from Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm asked prominent creative figures to discuss their ‘fear of failure.’ In this video veteran designer Milton Glaser offers his insights into creative failure (which apply as much to writing as much as design, I would think): (via Creative Review)

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Wim Crouwel | Dutch Profiles

April 28, 2011

Designer Wim Crouwel talks about his career, his use of the grid and the creation of the New Alphabet in this interesting 10-minute documentary for Dutch Profiles: Dutch Profiles is a series of short documentaries about architects, graphic, product and fashion designers working in the Netherlands. The series is new to me, but past films [...]

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Kurt Weidemann 1922-2011 | GestaltenTV

April 5, 2011

GestaltenTV have posted an 16-minute interview with influential German typographer and graphic designer Kurt Weidemann who died at the age of 88 on March 31st, 2011: Weidemann helped form the graphic identities companies such as Mercedes-Benz and Porsche, as well as designing books for the Büchergilde Gutenberg and the publishing houses Ullstein, Propyläen, Ernst Klett [...]

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