Ted Audio Collective.

This is the 10th anniversary of Design Matters, and to mark the anniversary were

we playing some favorite shows from the archive.

This one, an interview with Marion Duchars, was recorded in November of 2012.

This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman from design observer.com.

On this program,

Gobi Milman talks with Marian Descharce

about the expressiveness of hand lettering, about how drawing

is an intense form of looking, and about the limited value of technology in teaching art to

children.

I love the iPad and I love my kids playing the iPad but I love

them playing with paint and drawing materials so much more because it's

absolutely their world and no one else's world on that piece of paper.

Here's Debbie Melman. world and no one else's world on that piece of paper.

Here's Debbie Melman.

Marion Duchars has a lot of fun.

You can tell by her illustrations.

Their sure-handed scraws and exuberant letters with clear evidence of the human hand, of

Marion's hand to be exact.

Her style is instantly recognizable and much loved. You can see it on the covers of American

GQ, on the editorial pages of The Guardian, and in the cookbooks of Jamie Oliver. You can also see it in Marion's own books. They're

called Let's Make Some Great Art and Let's Make Some Great Fingerprint Art.

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