Design Ethics...

We, designers and dreamers, have a responsibility.

Everyone has dreams and visions, but designers are the ones who actually realize the potential of empty spaces, vacant lots, sheets of paper, or even piles of trash. When we create, we project what we want the world to be: revolutionary or common, thought-provoking or mundane, warm and welcoming or cold and efficient.

Is it possible to separate the "project" from our personal priorities and values? To design without the use of our hearts and frameworks which support our values? Of course! But what shallow work that would be!

Of course we could work for solely for money and deny responsibility for what our creations dobut we could also design with our hearts and minds as the people we are, for the people we want to become, for the ultimate purpose of projecting a vision of a better future onto reality. Choosing to believe that our creations, no matter how seemingly insignificant, will shape more than paper, wood, clay, or code, but the future itself.

(Yadda yadda yadda. That's why I couldn't get hired as a graphic designer.) Since you're here, you might as well look at the only useful section of this website: news.overcastpdx.com.