Brief - D&AD - Harry Pearce

Research into Harry Pearce - form an interview - Design Inaba


''our influences are not out of a book. The things that seem to steer our work are more to do with who we are, our life experience and pushing ourselves to actually understanding. By pushing yourself in different directions, you understand things from a wider perspective.''


''disappear for a while on an adventure. It makes you grow much more beneficially than sitting learning about graphic design or whatever your field is... there is work, but also everything else, and that it is really important to balance the two.''


Chases emotional work - beauty, emotions and things that move people


''The creative world has to see itself as an ecosystem. The more interdependent, the more collaborative, the richer and stronger it will get. Isolating yourself is the reverse of where everything is going. Your own personal growth also benefits from sharing and nurturing ideas with other people.''


''Witness keeps my balance. It is an incredible privilege to make enough money to live and spend every day, just from thinking of ideas and being involved in the creative process. Witness is my way of balancing that privilege. It is 18 years that I have been doing it and I haven’t just done the occasional poster, which is the sexy thing to do. I have actually made it part of the daily life of the team. ''


''when I was a teenager, I just wanted to bat for England.''


''I cannot ever manage stopping doing creative stuff of some sort every day, regardless of the commercial thing. I would just grind to a halt.''


''I am convinced that just by moving, just by walking down the street, you get unstuck. If I sit still too long, I just don’t get ideas but if I am walking, things just flood in... I find so many times that something happens accidentally and turns out to be the answer. It wasn’t my logical trip that took me to the answer; it was an accident that happened on the way that opened the door.''


''One thing that really paid off was that I was completely lost at college. I went to Canterbury and did a degree in graphic design. Then I had a couple of external tutors who pointed out a couple of people to me – one was Duchamp and one was Cassandre. A very weird mix, even if they’re both French! One was all about the mind, and one was all about images and words. ''


http://www.designindaba.com/article/harry-pearce-simon-sankarayya


In 2009 he published his collection of typographic puzzles, Conundrums