#briar levit

Interviews with Designers: Gayaneh Bagdasaryan, Veronika Burian, Maria Doreuli, Louise Fili, Martina Flor, Loraine Furter, Jenna Gesse, Golnar Kat Rahmani, Indra Kupferschmid, Briar Levit, Zuzana Licko, Ana Regidor, Fiona Ross and Carol Wahler

Copy Editor: Ekaterina Borisova

Graphic Design: Yulia Popova

Photography of the Book: Annette Behrens

Interviews with Designers: Gayaneh Bagdasaryan, Veronika Burian, Maria Doreuli, Louise Fili, Martina Flor, Loraine Furter, Jenna Gesse, Golnar Kat Rahmani, Indra Kupferschmid, Briar Levit, Zuzana Licko, Ana Regidor, Fiona Ross and Carol Wahler

Onomatopee Project Manager: Freek Lomme Copy Editor: Ekaterina Borisova

Graphic Design: Yulia Popova

Assisted by an all-female film crew, Levit’s project focuses on the history of graphic design production—the tools, processes, and workflows that occupied a designer’s day-to-day practice before the advent of the computer age. 

“I wanted to make Graphic Means in order to share the sense of pride that comes along with understanding your discipline’s history and development. It’s not a prerequisite to being a designer, but it certainly enriches your sense of belonging and respect for what you’re doing, and who came before you. I also wanted to try and understand what has changed and what has stayed the same in the culture of the studio workplace as a result of technological changes in methods. Many more hands used to touch a project in the production process, from designer, to typesetter, to photographer, to production designer. What were those relationships like? What did we lose when we gained the ability to pull all these elements together with just one person? What did we gain?”