"It strikes me that this is an amazing time to be a designer...

Design Week: Vancouver

Posted by: Helen Walters on April 28, 2010

I’m in Vancouver for Design Week, an event organized by Icograda, the International Council of Graphic Design Associations. The theme of the event is “Design Currency”; the challenge for participants to come up with some definition of the value of design. It’s a topic I’ve been thinking about for some time, and I was honored to be asked to take part in the opening keynote, alongside Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity (and new advisor to the Obama administration) and the prolific Korean designer, Don Ryun Chang. We each got to present for ten minutes, which led to a decided clash of worlds and views. An edited version of my speech is below:

“It strikes me that this is an amazing time to be a designer…

"It strikes me that this is an amazing time to be a designer...

Design Week: Vancouver

Posted by: Helen Walters on April 28, 2010

I’m in Vancouver for Design Week, an event organized by Icograda, the International Council of Graphic Design Associations. The theme of the event is “Design Currency”; the challenge for participants to come up with some definition of the value of design. It’s a topic I’ve been thinking about for some time, and I was honored to be asked to take part in the opening keynote, alongside Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity (and new advisor to the Obama administration) and the prolific Korean designer, Don Ryun Chang. We each got to present for ten minutes, which led to a decided clash of worlds and views. An edited version of my speech is below:

“It strikes me that this is an amazing time to be a designer…

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Grotesk is a visual communication design studio located in Barcelona addressed to editorial, interactive and corporate identity design, as well as design management and consulting on projects where a strategic use of design is considered.

Grotesk es un estudio de diseño de comunicación visual afincado en la ciudad de Barcelona el cual se especializa en proyectos editoriales, interactivos y de identidad corporativa así como en el asesoramiento, gestión y dirección de proyectos en los cuales se considere un uso estratégico del diseño.