Eight Questions for Graham Pullin

Recently Aaron Britt from Dwell magazine sat down with Graham Pullin to discuss how we might design better for disability (and why we've done such a bad job of it so far).  Here's a peak at one of the questions, but be sure to check out the whole discussion about Design Meets Disability. 

I love the way you muse about what might happen if Jasper Morrison made a wheelchair, or Stefan Sagmeister took up accessibility signage. It really made me wonder what they might do, but there also seemed to be a kind of challenge implicit in doing that in the book. Were you calling these guys out?

 
I too would love to see what designers like Morrison, Sagmeister, Ive and Chalayan might do. But actually I would not address this challenge to them directly, but to those already involved with disability, directing the development or manufacture of products, services or representing disabled people. Go on - invite them in! And from the very beginning, for their trains of thought, not just their execution skills.

Graham was also interviewed by the Boston Globe's Ideas section recently. More of his thoughts on designing for the disabled can be found here.