Ethical Design Education

Ethics of design are something most designers should learn as a basis of their study. It is important that their aim isn’t about getting to work with the highest consuming companies but to work with companies that have a priority of saving the environment from complete pollution.

Designers are so caught up to corporate, that they don’t think of environmental sustainability. Most companies do harm the environment and when a designer agrees to work with them they never think that they are helping in polluting the society. Too many things are harmed like alligator skin for bags or belts, I mean isn’t that so barbaric. Most people are worried about being the highly developed country well how can you be if you are ruining and killing stuff just to satisfy your greedy needs.

Designer should be ethically concerned of the environment and to their clients. They should help to recycle and try not waste materials in where they can replace with something else that wont harm this world. The mistake most or as I may say all educational institute of design teach is that designs have to be printed on manufactured stuff and personalized packaging and not only for finals but they waste all these stuff for mock ups to. We cant always put the blame on the youth or fresh designer but we should put it on the elders that know the basis of a healthy living. They should have put rules for this stuff but no one has.

In conclusion, if we wait for someone to teach us ethics in the way we design no one will and we will just keep harming the environment. So the trick is to learn by ourselves have a hand in helping our planet stay together with peace; since we have the tool of design in our hands to preach everyone.

Good citizenship

Citizenship, its a word over heard in our life; that role model set for us to follow. In this article, good citizenship talks about the things in life that makes you a good citizen knowing what to do and when it should be done. Some people need something like this article to read so that they will be self-aware of the possibilities for the neglecting of morals and values in life. people shouldn't go around acting the way they want and not thinking about everything they do in their life and its negative and positive sides. This is exactly a lesson that should be taught to us at youth so we would learn how to react to the chemical reactions of life. Values and morals the important elements of life are exactly what was discussion in the article of good citizenship.

As designers, we have a very useful and powerful tool in between our hand the tool that will help us influence life of many other visually oriented people. Most designer in college were taught something wrong in their freshmen year; that design is a tool or talent that will help raise our economical status. They have been taught that corporate work is the road to success in this world. This is a big mistake to be taught to us because this the road to be an emotionless robot. It teaches you to ignore every concept of living you were raised upon and just do what you were told by the corporate companies. I believe in order to succeed you should have a strong believe that what you are doing is exactly what you want, and that it doesn't go into conflict with what you strongly belief in. You can not to do corporate work and still end up successful by doing what you love and showing your emotions in the piece of artwork, because people tend to like the human beings that have a strong stance in what they want, and not a machine in which the just do what they were asked. This is a huge issue because as a designer i would wish to go into a class and the professor would say as your project do what you want, what you wish and what you really believe would be a success. This is a huge inspiration to students for the professor to give them complete confidence that they have the ability to choose what they want and to work on it; this will make the create and invent outstanding ideas. Thats why values and morals are what you should never let go of because this is your finger print to the world to help identify you and what you really want forever.

In conclusion, good citizenship teaches a designer that he should defend what he truly believes in. The writer doesn't mean defend it having no respect to whom ever but defend it with respect to peoples emotion who believe opposite of what you do and thats a lesson for every deigned. Its not all about consumerism and materialism but it's about using the tool of art to get your message to the people you want but in a twisted way.

Timing is everything!!

Time is made of gold, or at least that’s what most people tend to say. Is it true or not, well personally I would say it is. Timing is the one thing that plays a major role in everyone’s life. Time is but a great weapon handed us in this world; its either we use it for our advantage or we let it destroy us.

The article discusses the importance of time, not by the meaning that it only for how you schedule your daily life; but its importance. It matters if you propose an idea at a certain time, than any time. For example like the issue of sphere magazine raised a huger issue because it was issued after the incidence of September 11. If it were issued before it would have probably not made the big fuss that it did, here the essence if time were of a great importance.  So it is something that everyone should keep in mind, that time does affect the issue, design or articles raised during a certain period of time.            

Also most designer prefer their agitation to be raised in historical books. I think it is because it is safer and would leave a huge trademark in the world and would give a stronger stance of the idea.

Third, I learned that if I ever did something and it didn’t get the popularity that I expect it doesn’t mean that its wrong or the way I did it was a mistake it just means its unpopular. You might do something and it might be the only right thing discussed in the same issue but it didn’t get the popularity you expected because of the time or place or maybe its not interesting to the people, so for that reason it didn’t get popular.

In conclusion, I learned that time is but of a great importance to everything you do in life and that it shouldn’t matter if something you did got the popularity or not. Personally, when I do something, I don’t do it so that someone would notice I just do it so that so that when I sleep at night I would be satisfied that I did something in this world; i.e. self satisfaction.

milton glaser bullet points

Have you asked yourself as a graphic designer, what's the limit? Every occupation has it's limit, like every sentence has a dot to end it. As humans we should define what it is that we want from the world, the message that we send and the things that will be said about us after we're gone. As a graphic designer I have put the dots on the line and know exactly the way and style that i want to portray myself to the world. Reading the questionnaire I would totally stop in the third point. To me if I designed a crest to show that the vineyard business has been there for a long time, it wont effect anyone. What it will do is make consumers trust the business more and increase their profit. So i don't think I'm going to effect my reputation by doing it. But when it comes to the fourth point I would not design a cover for a book where it's sexual content I would find repellent, because that means that I agree with it. I have attached an example of such a book. It would effect what type of designer I am and the environment that I was raised in. This something that wouldn't allow myself to do. The problem with it is that a book might effect not only effect one person; since it is printed in huge numbers hundreds and millions of people all around the world might get effected. I would feel really guilt if a book like this effects someone life and ruins it, because that is something I wouldn't be able to forgive myself for. That is why I stopped at the third point and show to the world of design that, thats the line ill will draw for myself.