| “In common with an increasing number of the general public, we have reached a saturation point at which the high pitched scream of consumer selling is no more than sheer noise.”
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First Things First: A Manifesto “…we are proposing a reversal of priorities in favour of the more useful and more lasting forms of communication. We hope that our society will tire of gimmick merchants, status salesmen and hidden persuaders, and that the prior call on our skills will be for worthwile purposes.” Link > |
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Advertising for a Better World: The nation's only nonprofit ad agency crafts messages with a mission November/December 2006 Utne Reader by James Diers Link > A Fast Organic Nation? October/November 2005; Pp. 71–75 Plenty by Saran Rose Against All Odds January/February 2004; Pp. 66-73 Mother Jones by Adam Hochschild Link > America the Greedy April 29, 2004 AIGA website by Carolyn McCarron Link > An Ideal Design is Not Yet 1999 The World Must Change — Graphic Design and Idealism by Leonie ten Duis, Annelies Haase Link > An Offer They Can’t Refuse September 2005; Pp. 4–13 The Sun by Pat MacEnulty Link > |
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| b | Better by Design August 2005 RSA eJournal Link > |
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| c | Can Designers Save the World (and should they try?) September/October 2001 Spy by Nico Macdonald Link > Conceptual Design: Building a Social Conscience November 01, 2005 AIGA by Nick Currie Link > The Conversation: When should graphic designers make a political commitment August 2007 Communication Arts by John Emerson Corporate Social Responsibility: Just Good Business January 17, 2008 Economist by Daniel Franklin Link > Culture Change January/February 2003; Pp. 52–57, 78 Mother Jones by David Goodman Link > |
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The Designer and Pro Bono: Professional Practices Series 3 by Doowah Design Inc. with Deschenes Regnier Link > The Designer's Dilemma: Changing the way we think about design to better tackle the challenges of environmentalism. The Designers Accord by Valerie Casey Link > Design for the Next Billion Customers Core77 Design Blog by Niti Bhan and Dave Tait Link > Designism 2.0 Social Design Notes Backspace website Link > |
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Ethics and Social Responsibility July/August 2005 Professional Practice by Shel Perkins Link > Ethics in Design March 27, 2003 by Megan Prusynski Link > |
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First Things First 1964 a Manifesto 1964 Guardian Newspaper by Ken Garland Link > First Things First Manifesto 2000 Design Manifesto fall 1999 / spring 2000 Manifesto published jointly by 33 signatories in: Adbusters, the AIGA journal, Blueprint, Emigre, Eye, Form, Items Link > |
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Gods and Monsters
January/February, 2004; Pp. 49–53, 84 Mother Jones by Mark Dowie Link > Graphic Intervention Typotheque.com by Steven Heller Link > |
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How Can Design Influence the Tools of Democracy? March 11, 2008 AIGA website by Richard Grefé Link > How Good is Good? April/May 2002 Reprinted in I.D. Magazine by Stefan Sagmeister Link > How to Create a Real Ownership Society March 2006; Pp. 41–47 Ode by Jonathan Rowe How To Curb Corporate Power October 10, 2005; Pp. 20-24 The Nation by Ralph Nader How to Look at Billboards No.17; Pp.16-19 Stay Free by Howard Gossage Link > Hype vs. Hope November/December 2006; Pp. 52–57 Mother Jones by Bill MicKibben Link > |
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In Search of Ethics in Graphic Design August 16, 2004 AIGA website by Paul Nini Link > |
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Just Do It! Tony Hendra on Designism October 24, 2006 AIGA website by Steven Heller Link > |
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Kyoto Design Declaration 2008
2008 AIGA website Link > |
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The Marketing of Diamonds: How A Successful Cartel Turned A Worthless Rock Edward Jay Epstein Abridged by Carrie McLaren. Link > Meet The Corporation September/October 2005; Pp. 24–29 Sierra by Chris Warren Link > My Beef With Big Media May 2005; Pp. 24–27 Ode by Ted Turner Link > My Prescription for an Ethically Designed Future 2008 AIGA Center for Sustainable Design by Eric Benson Link > |
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The New Capitalists May/June 2006; Pp. 40–49 Utne by Joseph Hart Link > |
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Practise, Don’t Preach September 2005 Spy Nico Macdonald Link > Print Design and Environmental Responsibility AIGA Link > |
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The Road to Hell—Bending the truth can be a slippery slope for graphic designers
August/September 2002 Metropolismag.com by Milton Glaser Link > |
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Signature of the Kyoto Design Declaration 2008 Lécole de design, Nantes Atlanique Link > Standards of Professional Practice 2008 AIGA Link > Stories That Shake The World April 2006; Pp. 42-45 Ode by Seth Godin Link > Success and the Design of Morality Core77 by Cordy Swope Link > Sustainability 14 November 2006, Updated 22 March 2007 by Beatrice K. Otto Design Council Link > Sustainability and Biodegradability: Packaging That 'Goes Away'?! March, 2007 Package Design Magazine, Sustainable Packaging Update website by Eric Brody and Wendy Jedlicka Link > Sustainable Progress May 20, 2004 Spy by Nico Macdonald Link > |
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Taking It To The Streets, Graphic Design for Advocacy May/June 2004 Communication Arts by John Emerson Link > Thinking about Design Education September 18, 2004 AIGA by Kerry Polite Link > There is Such a Thing as Society 2001 Eye Magazine by Andrew Howard Link > The Time for Being Against February 24, 2001 Typotheque by Rick Poynor Link > Towards Creative Activism 03/27/07 Creative Review by Patrick Link > Triumph of the Shill part one Issue 23, Winter 2004; Pp. 51-59 Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture by Jennifer L. Pozner Link > Triumph of the Shill part two Issue 24, Spring 2004; Pp. 55-61, 91 Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture by Jennifer L. Pozner Link > |
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Waiting for Permission 1992 Rethinking Design, a journal from Mohawk Paper Mills by Michael Bierut What Learning Needs, The challenge for a creative nation June 1, 2001 Design Council by Rachel Jupp, Ciara Fairly and Tom Bentley When Is a Corporation Like a Freed Slave? November/December 2006; Pp. 63–66 Mother Jones by Barry Yeoman |
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