Design made by the individual, their right to individual expression but could this still be considered noise in the visual world. Should training be enforced and if so…how? There is the danger is that by censoring the employer is no longer interested in paying for the real designer and so the accountant ends up doing it!.
There were a number of threads of discussion in this area that came from discussing the idea of the union or a standardised body. We struggled with (and probably will through this exercise) to identify the one area that would make for good ethical standing in design. For Ben this was ‘honesty’. I find this really interesting as I completely agree in ethical terms, however I cannot see how this would ever be possible when ‘design’ by its very nature is subjective and a universally accepted understanding of images/culture would be needed.
