Backstage Talks #2

Find out why Oliviero Toscani says advertising is dead. Get reassured by Peter Bilak, who says patience is crucial when it comes to selling typefaces. Learn the importance of guarding your time with Malika Favre, who never takes on a last-minute client over a booked holiday, and see her colorful works in our fold-in gallery. We also spoke with Astrid Stavro about how economic crises can force us to become more creative and resourceful, and with Erik Kessels on honesty, irony, and deliberate imperfection. And then some!

Backstage Talks is a magazine of casual, but in-depth dialogues on design and business. Our decisions shape and influence this complex world—to have a chance to make the right ones, we need to talk.