Good: An Introduction to Ethics in Graphic Design - Lucienne Roberts

Reasoning

Having looked back on last year, I found that this was the book that compared Kierkegaard to Nietzsche, and I hoped that it would prove useful in terms of establishing that society is built on Christian values. Whilst I don't know if the author is Christian or not, I do know that she was a signatory of the 2000 First Things First Manifesto, which is just as useful. 

What I Gained

This book was really useful, it reiterated many points I'd already touched upon, brought up a couple of new ones, as well as hinting at some of the reasons behind the First Things First Manifesto, such as: 

1. Money can distract a designer from their responsibilities.
2. Having creative freedom makes designers happy.
3. Historically, the church has defined what is good and bad.
4. Consumerism isn't necessarily bad from a Christian point of view.
5. Helping others is a basic part of Christianity.
6. Envy is the worst of all sins as all other sins are goodness gone wrong.
7. It's possible that capitalism is fuelling creativity, rather than the other way around.
8. Capitalism works by encouraging individual success.
9. If we accept the freedom of speech, does that mean we should be able to accept any work from any client?
10. Communication is a 2 way thing, so modernist graphic design is flawed.
11. Nietzsche's thoughts of self-empowerment relate perfectly to graphic design because any brief is a resistance to creativity that can be overcome.
12. Modernist design is founded on logic and belief in absolute rights and wrongs.
13. Garland acknowledges that not all people are in a position where accepting the directions of FTF is feasible.

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Next Steps

Given some of Roberts' comments on Modernism, it's something I want to look into a bit deeper, and finding the video from this lecture last year would really help me with this.