[...] We learned from and listened to Distéfano, who had had the insight that typography could give an identity to the artwork of the Di Tella. He needed not be a typographer in order to be extremely sensitive to type fonts; his strategist’s intuition was enough for us to gather round him and listen. The idea that letters were images stayed with us for good. I admired the way in which Distéfano turned ideas into reason; when he later became a sculptor I finally understood his personal way of connecting everything: at times he had brought me fragments of letters and asked me to reconstruct in that manner, with that font, the drawing of a full headline or simply a word that would soon function as an urban sign.

From Distéfano, from Andradis, from the circumstances surrounding the Department, one learned a different type of design, which involved listening to and finding part of the truth of communication in ostensibly inexpert words. I owe my idea of what design is and should be to the Di Tella, and I think