Ethics in Design

All of the images, video, work… in this post are form this site: ethicsingraphicdesign.org. This is a good place for us to start our next — building-community-ice-breaker session. 

Design and legalities: copyright, font licensing, image use rights, piracy, plagiarism and appropriation…

http://www.picturesinboxes.com/

Morality: branding, cultural influence, social responsibility, and sustainability (ethicsingraphicdesign.org).

 

Design & Violence, a 15 minute talk by Paola Antonelli, MoMA (published on May 6, 2014) From 3-D printed guns to designing empathy, MoMA’s Design Curator Paola Antonelli gives insights on the correlation between violence and design in our fragile times.

Almost twenty years ago, Benetton Clothing’s “Hearts” Print Ad won the Cannes Lions 1996 Press Gold award when it featured these 3 hearts in an effort to open people’s eyes and speak to the “heart” of the matter. —Read more.

“Je suis Charlie” (I am Charlie) has become the mantra for many across the world who are gathering to protest the slaughter of Charlie Hebdo’s editor and cartoonists. Read more.

Sérgio Manuel Neves is a recent graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon. He explored the topic of “ethos” and “ethics” in graphic design for one his projects this past spring. The publication that he created, Ethics: Graphic Design In Takes includes excerpts from authors on the topic of ethics in graphic design and designers like Milton Glaser, creator of the chart “12 Steps on the Graphic Designer’s Road to Hell.”

This mural was painted on Albany Ave. in the North End of Hartford, Connecticut in November 2010. It was a Design Global Change project, an organization founded by Professor Natacha Poggio of Hartford Art School that is a creative think-tank that uses design to develop projects that bring positive change to communities around the world.