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1. Tom,

   20/03/2010 at 16:48

   I tend to agree with a lot of what David Quaye is say­ing in this art­icle. I think most of us have worked on pro­jects that on some level con­flict with our own eth­ic­al pos­i­tion, how­ever expli­cit that asso­ci­ation may be. For me it’s about where you draw the line, and about how far you are happy with com­prom­ising what you believe in in order to make a liv­ing / pur­sue your goals. 

   A lot of cre­at­ive agen­cies work on the prin­ciple of hav­ing one or two ‘cash cow’ cli­ents (insur­ance com­pan­ies, banks), that provide the fin­an­cial sta­bil­ity to allow them to explore more cre­at­ive or socially respons­ible pro­jects. You won’t have to dig too deep to find evid­ence of mor­ally dubi­ous prac­tices in most banks or insur­ance companies. 

   For me it’s about hav­ing an ‘ideal world’ scen­ario in mind (i.e. work­ing on cre­at­ive pro­jects for cul­tur­al estab­lish­ments), and try­ing not to stray too far from your ideo­lo­gic­al stand­point along the way. But these are per­son­al choices that we all have to make — the idea of a mani­festo for the Design Community as a whole strikes me as ideal­ist­ic, imprac­tic­able and con­fus­ing in its aims.

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2. Rebecca Lee,

   23/03/2010 at 21:44

   Maybe the answer is a kind of design­ers karm­ic cred­it sys­tem, black mark today, gold star tomorrow…:)

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