Jennifer Sterling
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
Design Matters Media
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🗓️ 12 April 2013
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Jennifer Sterling on her process, how money should be designed, and the way teaching has influenced her career.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman, |
| 0:12.0 | from Design observer.com. |
| 0:14.0 | On this program, Debbie Milman talks with Jennifer Sterling |
| 0:20.0 | about the process behind her intricate typographical designs. |
| 0:24.0 | It's not that it takes a long time to physically craft it, |
| 0:29.0 | but just to find something that I like, |
| 0:32.0 | so I'm not necessarily repeating myself or I'm looking at something |
| 0:35.9 | differently and just wandering into that arena I think takes a little bit of time. |
| 0:41.1 | Here's Debbie Melman. |
| 0:42.2 | Jennifer Sterling runs her own studio in New York City, Sterling Design. |
| 0:48.1 | Once you've seen it, her work imprints itself on the mind. |
| 0:52.4 | It often begins with type, then veers off into highly detailed |
| 0:56.7 | and rigorous geometries. She celebrates physical processes, plays with scale, and turns text into texture. |
| 1:07.0 | Jennifer's work is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern |
| 1:10.4 | Art, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Library of Congress. |
| 1:15.9 | Grafeis, the International Journal of Visual Communication, included Jennifer in their list of |
| 1:22.1 | top 10 designers in the world. included Jennifer Sterling, |
| 1:25.0 | Welcome to Design Matters. |
| 1:27.6 | Debbie, thank you for asking me. |
| 1:29.5 | Let's go back to the beginning. |
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