Lucienne Roberts
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What Graphic Design can and should do.
Book : Good: An introduction to ethics in Graphic Design
- Things that influence her include politics and issues
- Design can make a difference
- Using comedy within a political sphere
- Exhibition design is big on storytelling
- Graphic design can make a difference in a distressing way (reveal things you don't want to know about)
- What is it gives our work quality as a Graphic Designer
- Consider what and who Graphic Design is for
- Typography changes the reading of any text
- Can Graphic Design save your life - Graphic Design & Health exhibition
- Symbolism curates the layout of the exhibition e.g. triangle a warning symbol
- Look at an exhibit in relation to a question
- Taking responsibility for error by taking what we are meant to do away
- Geigy 50's designer mostly produced for pharmaceutical companies
- HopetoNope looked into biased or dubious messages
- Power of putting work next to each other creates a narrative
- Have an energy with how the design work should be used
- Can political or other issues give work new meaning or life?
- 'nice' exhibit
- What can you change in a message to make it more potent e.g words or typeface
- Design is always political
- Every choice we make is political, who we work for, the problems we choose to solve
- How often you engage and how you use technology it can effect how you relate the message it gives
- Graphic Design is messages sent using text and images
- Branding creates control and uniformity
- Ivar Williams looks into what design can bring
- How can your own life contribute to design
- Consider what graphic design can bring within different contexts
- How much is Graphic Design at our fault
- Practice changes as you respond to the development of ethics, current trends and issues
