Norman Teague on rewriting design history and designing to ‘chill’
Norman Teague on rewriting design history and designing to ‘chill’
In a new short film by Brazilian film director Hugo Faraco for R & Company, American designer Norman Teague discusses his work and influences, on the occasion of the exhibition ‘From Lawn Road to South Chicago: Progressive Plywood in Times of Change’
Filmography: Hugo Faraco
Studying design history, Chicago-based designer Norman Teague couldn’t find a figure that represented him. ‘Design history needs to reinvent itself in a whole lot of ways,’ he says in a new short film by Hugo Faraco. ‘Your world is the history that you read about, and if you’re wrapping your head around the things that really say that you don’t belong here, then we have to create other books, or we have to create another world.’