Oliver Jeffers

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Design, Arts

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Working in painting, bookmaking, illustration, collage, performance, and sculpture, Oliver Jeffers joins to talk about his career making art and telling stories. His new book, Begin Again, explores humankind’s impact on itself and our planet, asking the big question: Where do we go from here?

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	This is Design Matters with Debbie Millman from design observer.com.
0:14.0	This year is the 10th anniversary of the podcast,
0:20.0	10 years of designers and other creative types talking about what they do, how they got to be
0:24.8	who they are, and what they're thinking about.
0:27.6	On this program, Oliver Jeffress explains how illustrating and writing children's books has changed his fine art painting.
0:34.0	When I discovered picture books, that thirst for storytelling and using words and pictures mixed together was completely satisfied.
0:41.0	Here's Debbie Milman. Here's a riddle with only one possible answer.
0:47.3	What do drip paintings, picture books, and the band you two have in common. The answer is Oliver Jeffers of course. The
0:58.2	Belfast Bread illustrator and artist has designed covers and co-directed a music video for you too.
1:05.0	His picture books for children are celebrated for their illustrations and
1:11.0	their writing and if he's not dripping paint to make an abstract painting, he's dipping a
1:17.2	figurative painting in paint. Artist, designer, illustrator, and writer.
1:23.6	He joins me now to talk about his multifaceted career.
1:27.4	Oliver Jeffers, welcome to design matters.
1:29.8	Thank you for having me.
1:30.9	Oliver, I understand that you grew up in Belfast
1:33.8	in Northern Ireland and went to a school
1:36.5	that you've described as kind of rough.
1:39.9	What does kind of rough mean exactly?
1:42.6	Well, kind of rough means that it was
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