Initial Ideas

Here are lots of initial thoughts on the topic as discussed in the first meeting.

Environmental Issues: sustainable design, printing, paper, electricity, designing for Green Peace etc, associated contradictions.

Using ethical claims to sell products and create a feeling of satisfaction for consumers.

Companies a designer chooses to or not to work with based on the ethics of that company. For example, unhealthy food advertising, alcohol, Nestle scandal, monopolising companies. 

Financial: How much to charge for design skills, spec work (working for free), working against other designers in competition where only the chosen designer gets paid. Cheap logos, branding, business cards, ready made websites offered extremely cheaply online - poor quality? 

Technology: companies forever releasing new models so older products become obsolete. Using dated technology to make more money with updates, disposable etc.

Magazines: gender, stereotypes, advertising-consumerism, airbrushing.

Google ads, GPS tracking, Google glass, pop ups.

Death of print.

Plagiarism.

Politically correctness.