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Design Ethics

Advertising does work, so designer’s need to truly think about their personal system of ethics. What ideas are you willing to communicate? Are these ideas inline with your personal belief system? Design is powerful and it is up to you to discern between the costs and the benefits. Or…maybe the government will step in and decide for you? In the case below it’s not a bad idea…

via Spain to Ban Some Prime-time Diet, Beauty Ads
LONDON (AdAge.com) — Marketers in Spain could be banned from advertising certain beauty products and services before 10 p.m., as the government attempts to stamp out the growing number of eating disorders and improve the mental health of young women fixated on their weight and appearance.

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Inspiration

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

—Henry David Thoreau

Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures. —Jeffery Veen

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate.The world is all gates, all opportunities.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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