· “We have everything we need to begin solving this crisis, with the possible exception of the will to act.” Al Gore
· Old habits + old technology = Predictable consequences; Old habits + new technology = dramatically altered consequences
· “Whatever the information transmitted, it must, ethically and culturally, reflect its responsibility to society.” Joseph Muller-Brockmann Swiss graphic designer, from What is Graphic Design?, Roto Vision, 2002
· “A designer…has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual, the accustomed, the obvious, and hence, the unspontaneous. Rather, he should provide that quality of thought and intuition which rejects the ineffectual commonplace for effectual originality.” Lester Beall From “The Creative Process of Lester Beall,” by R. Roger Remington, Step-By-Step Graphics, July/August 1990
Sustainable design: found in Green magazine, March 2008
Some interesting thoughts: found in Sprinkla, March 2008
Design anarchy… found in Design Anarchy by Kalle Lasn (Adbusters), 2006
Keith Harring mural; found in Pisa, Italy, December 2007
Question anything…and everything… found at Centre Pompidou, Paris, January 2008
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Hey steph, where did you get the image with he quote and who is it by?
Comment by carlamckee March 5, 2008 @ 6:33 pm