Who Gets to Say What to Whom?

The article sent the message of how designers have a great influence and power in the field of communication and they should involve and think more of the content of the messages they send throughout their designs and how they need to express their own opinion in it.  In order to send a message to the public a designer should live out there, face the life of others, have a good knowledge of what he is talking about, and think clearly and carefully of the content more than the visuals.

the power of design criticism and how it should be used. design critics need to ask questions about economics, power, and democracy as well as questions about style.

Maud Lavin, she has a B.A. Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard; M.A. Art History at U of Pennsylvania; Ph.D. in Art History at City U of New York Graduate Center.  She worked as a professor in Visual and Critical Studies and Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a recent recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. She has experiences in teaching, writing and Critical Studies

The article was written in —200, She wrote the article because she sees her self as a populist and a believer in radical democracy, and she wanted from all the designers not to frighten in sending messages if they believe in it, since at that time discussion forums began to appear, some designers wanted to state their opinion, other designers preferred not to get involved in this matter, as —criticism was a new field and they only critique the appearance of a design not the concept. 

Visuals from the article

 

 (At the Start…At Long Last (1999), installation of mirrored mosaic and 207 tiles etched with quotes from local community members at the A train platform in the 207th St station, NYC subway.)

 Literature permanent installation for Flushing( i actully did not understand what is flushing)

Central panels of Biddy Mason: Time and Place wall for street in downtown Los Angeles. Designed by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, 1990

 Ellen exhibition which called "Mechanical brides; women and machines from home to office"  where she brought issues of product and graphic design with women's history. 

Localized Visual Examples

Some Links:

look at the slideshow in the middle

http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/visual-thinking-synthesis.html

http://www.slideshare.net/rycoleman/visual-thinking-the-writing-process

http://www.geekpreneur.com/problem-solving-through-visual-thinking

http://designthinkingideas.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/thoughts-on-a-designers-responsibilities/

The Weaving of Design and Community

The article mainly talked about designers who have helped the community throughout their careers and helped other designers to see their ways in helping others.
The author of this article is Julie Baugnet, an American designer, Studied and worked in St. cloud state university and became an associate professor in it. Most of her freelance design work is non-profit organization. She is a visual artist, painter, and writer.She Painted a book called “Trees” and wrote books and journals. She wrote the article to raise awareness about what are the responsibility of the designer as a part from the community and how can he apply that by doing his work and what he mostly love"design". as she wanted to  encourage them to relate themselves to a current cause or to a nonprofit organization.

The major change is understanding what design is and how can we apply it in the use of the community. Before awareness, nonprofit organization used to ask from the society to donate without having events or campaigns, but now they started to run on special events so people would trust them and be more interested to donate. They are sure that the money will go for the cause not for the organization. These campaigns are created to spread the need more through posters and Ads, so all people would interact.Now in KSA more companies are aware of volunteer work, and nonprofit events. Designers started to feel responsible about the society and involve in the volunteer work.

Visuals from the article

First Things First Manifesto

Ken Friberg

 Sue Crolick

Art Buddies

Localized Visual Examples 

 Clean Jeddah Project By Ahmad Shugairi’s, he asked the male teenagers to help him.

The exhibition "Art Auction for Humanity” ,in Jeddah for graphic designers and photographers.

Useful links:
http://www.dexigner.com/news/24609
http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/outside-voices-careers/2011/10/24/10-myths-about-nonprofit-work
the article
http://writingstudio2010.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/the-weaving-of-design-and-community.pdf
http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/11/16/rahma-campaigns-a-breath-of-fresh-air-on-arab-tv/

I Love NY More Than Ever

The logo I love NY was Designed for a tourism campaign for New York, then it became a recognized icon for the city, then been copied for other cities, it was designed by Milton Glaser as he did not expect the vast spread of the logo.
In the article it was mentioned that Designers interaction with current events through designs to show personal stands and support citizen, and that was shown in the alternation that was made by Milton Glaser to his logo as a response to the sept.11 attack. Glaser added wound to the heart as he changed the phrase to i love NY more than ever. The wound was added to replace the towers and the american flag, as he wanted to grab more affection. at first the state and the audiences refused the new logo as they said it showed a state of weakness but it was published in the front and the back of the daily news and then it was noticed that it gave the wanted reaction and therefor the logo did succeed.  What we conclude from that is, design can be a tool to show and express an opinion or personal point of view as it can reach the audience a message and grab their affection.

The author of the article is Steven Heller, a student of both a military school and a progressive prep school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He used his press pass to attend some New York University lectures on a variety of subjects during the student sit-in strikes. He is an Author , editor, journalist, critic, and commentator. He had contributed hundreds of articles, critical essays, and columns, Editor of the AIGA JOURNAL OF GRAPHIC DESIGN. He has produced or been curator of a number of exhibitions, including "Art Against War.”

Visuals from the article

The cover of the new yorker shows how new yorkers see new york is the most important thing and everything out is not relevance.

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It is absolutely acceptable to alter an existing logo (done by you) 4 a valid cause and develop it to communicate & capture people's affection.

What is not acceptable is altering a logo which will affect someone who is not responsible of what who is changing the logo wants to say. like in the case of the second logo from up.

Links
http://www.logoguru.co.uk/blog/changing-logo-design-for-occasions/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY4CMyFXnzY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M9BWdFdk_o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGCyMRsjbLU

what's wrong with plagiarism

what does plagiarism means? and whats wrong with it? these two simple questions were the reason behind writing this article, when Gunner Swanson sent a survey with these questions he although got his answers from at least the answer of one person but he was not satisfied by the answers he got from the designers. 

he wrote the article between 1997-2001, and it was published in Citizen designer: Perspective on Design Responsibility, By Steven Heller & Veronique Vienna in 2003.

Gunner Swanson took his MFA in Graphic design from California state University, and his Undergraduate degree is in art history from UCLA.He taught graphic and design history at Otis College of Art and Design, UCLA extension, the University of California Davis, and Loyola Marymount University.He is a graphic designer now for over that thirty years of professional experience.

His work has been honored with 100 awards and publications. Dozens of his articles about graphic design have appeared in the academic and trade press and his essays have been reproduced in several anthologies of graphic design writing.He also was the editor of the Allworth Press Book Graphic Design & Reading, the co-editor of Virginia commonwealth University’s zed3 and has been invited to speak about graphic design and design education in the US, Australia, Canada, and England.

plagiarism is theft, although in design there is no clear boundaries for what is plagiarism but stealing somebody's idea or design and present it as it is your work is stealing and lying and no one can disagree with that. Plagiarism is an ethical question, and not necessarily a moral one. plagiarism doesn't stop only in designers work it also happen every where, stealing someone's research, picture, though, it can even be stealing some shop window's idea. 

now a-days plagiarism is easier than ever,The Internet now makes it easy to find thousands of relevant sources in seconds, in the space of a few minutes plagiarists can find, copy, and paste together an entire term paper or essay or even any artwork because much of the material online is produced by other students.  The biggest problem that both graphic designers and writers face regarding the Internet is plagiarism, It is simple to save a web page designed by someone else and use it as your own, Plagiarists can download graphics with a click of the mouse.  
Adding copyrights to images can help, but it is impossible to know who has taken your things unless you are constantly looking for them.Many users are unaware of copyright laws and that they are violating them by using your work. 

visuals from the article

the first poster was done by Herbert Matter’s 1930s, and in 1980s Paula Scher redesigned it as a commercial for 

swatch but with asking herbert's wife for a permission since she own the copy right of the poster.

localized visual examples

Links:

the article

http://www.gunnarswanson.com/writing/Plagiarism.pdf

http://www.helium.com/items/504569-thoughts-on-plagiarism

http://www.ethicsingraphicdesign.org/?p=351

http://naldzgraphics.net/design-2/drawing-the-line-inspiration-or-plagiarism/