This popped in my mind during Design His. class the other day:
"At what point does 'pure' design philosophy/advocacy have to give in to society/industry?"
Why does any designer have to sacrifice integrity?
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I think you refer to the Morris' separation from his surroundings and starting his own workshop environment to create, which allowed to him to keep his own goals and ideas forfront in his work. I think there are interesting issues here, especially how he convinced others that his way was a valuable, respectable form of design, even without the contemporary technology and construction methods.
In our time and setting, however, I think that the opportunity for forming our own design collective has much less potential to be recognized. Our integrity is constantly questioned (presumably, out in the real world, I speak from no experience however), and in order to stay afloat, we must repeatedly organize oue priorities as designers and social communicators. Do we do what we have to now(maybe sacrifice ourselves a bit) to hopefully allow for freedom of expression, once enough credibility has been established, of our own ideas and feelings to be a responsible member of society's communications link? ie: should we do what we need to do now, so we can do what we want to do later (JJ's propaganda)? In some cases I think designers will feel that self-sacrifice is a requisite activity, but the number will be less than the true-to-self, honest, aware designers, because as designers, we can convince anyone if we try hard enough, even the client who wants us to zig when we should zag.
Hope that was clear. Be safe be creative.
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