This article by Stephan Sagmeister was very interesting to me. In the beginning, it quotes Victor Papanek's "Design for the Real World" which bashes what I hoped to do as a career: Advertising design.
He says “There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only very few of them. And possibly only one profession is phonier: Advertising design. In persuading people to buy things they don’t need, with money they don’t have, in order to impress others that don’t care, it is probably the phoniest field in existence today.”
Ouch.
The article goes on to talk about is good design + bad cause = bad .. then does bad design + good cause = good?
These are interesting questions for graphic designers. It makes me think about what I want to do with my career. It makes it seem like a good vs. evil thing.
