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Empowering designers to create socially conscious change.
If you've felt a pang of responsibility or a drive to use your design talents for something bigger, this is where you start. This handbook isn't just theory, it's a call to action—a guide for graphic designers who want to meld career with activism. It's the nudge you need to start making your work matter in a whole new way.
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ISBN: 9781440308741
Authors:
Noah Scalin
Publisher: How Books
Date of Publication: 2012-10-05
Format: Paperback
Related Topics:
Society,
Sociology,
Political Science,
How To,
Personal Development,
Leadership,
Essays
Goodreads rating: 4.19
(rated by 52 readers)
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We Want You!Will you join the ranks of design activists?Doing good is too important to think of as work better left to those fictitious "other" designers. People more famous. More talented. More connected. Richer. Younger. Braver. (Insert your own mental roadblock here.) In truth, anyone can be a design activist.It just starts with a commitment to yourself and your values. A commitment to making conscious choices and realizing how all the decisions you make as a graphic designer affect other people and the planet. It's about being awake instead of sliding by with the way things always have been done.This book is for every graphic designer who's ever sat at a computer, Is this it? Isn't there more? It's a tool to help you figure out how to start making a difference and making a living at the same time--no matter where you live and work right now.Just open this book and we'll help you start walking in the right direction. It doesn't have to be perfect. Little actions from a lot of people add up to big change. This isn't a contest about who's the greenest or the most radical. It's a movement, and we're inviting you to join right now.
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Empowering designers to create socially conscious change.
If you've felt a pang of responsibility or a drive to use your design talents for something bigger, this is where you start. This handbook isn't just theory, it's a call to action—a guide for graphic designers who want to meld career with activism. It's the nudge you need to start making your work matter in a whole new way.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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