Comments on: The design responsibility

By: Roberto Blake

Roberto Blake — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:47:17 +0000

I really feel that ethical responsibility is something people in our industry should consider more often. It is my belief that design can change the world.

By: Beverly

Beverly — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:37 +0000

Love, love, love this video. Essential. Fantastic.

By: Tessa Carroll

Tessa Carroll — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:26:54 +0000

Social responsibility in design is a rapidly increasing trend and I applaud anyone who is taking it on full force. Kiren and Lee are right on, we must take responsibility for our actions.

Tessa Carroll

By: Jannie Funster

Jannie Funster — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:32:29 +0000

I am not a designer, tho one day I may veer in that direction, to at least learn some basic design coding. I feel so limited by my lack of know-how. Or… maybe I’ll just leave that up to you pros and keep on with the other stuff I do.

I LOVE the whole ending quote from McDonough, as I think that I shall never see a blog as lovely as a tree, tho some blogs do come pretty close. :)

By: lee newham

lee newham — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:43:55 +0000

Kiren, you are spot on.
We have to be responsible for our actions. It’s a shame some people hide behind generic right wing political retoric with lots of miss information.

We all have to take more responsibility for our actions. Our actions have a effect.

By: Kiren

Kiren — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:59:16 +0000

Okay Matt, let’s continue our wasteful lifestyles and use up all the water and eat up all the fish in the sea and see what happens. The fact is, we have to be responsible and respect what is given to us. The earth will never cease to exist, only it’s inhabitants…us!

By: Matthew Carson

Matthew Carson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:50:50 +0000

@ Kiren:

Sorry, but I’m not interested in drinking your koolade. Nor am I interested in your new Earth worship. The facts simply don’t support your beliefs. Even the greenie’s messiah, Al Gore, just admitted that the majority of warming isn’t CO2 based:

“In a new development that is potentially devastating to the agenda to introduce a global carbon tax and a cap and trade system, Al Gore admits that the majority of global warming that occurred until 2001 was not primarily caused by CO2.

…his concession that carbon dioxide only accounted for 40% of warming according to new studies could seriously harm efforts to tax CO2, that evil, life-giving gas that humans exhale and plants absorb.”

“Gore acknowledged to Newsweek that the findings could complicate efforts to build a political consensus around the need to limit carbon emissions,” reports BB News.

As Andrew Bolt writes in today’s Australian Herald Sun, his flip-flopping “Suggests not only that was Gore wrong to claim the science was “settled”, but that the hugely expensive schemes to “stop” warming by slashing carbon dioxide emissions will be less than half as effective as claimed.”

By: Kiren

Kiren — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:41:49 +0000

The “controversy” is that people actually believe global warming is “make believe” and is not happening. Whether “they” are profiting on “Green” products doesn’t mean there isn’t an issue with global warming. To say we are not responsible for the climate change is pretty ignorant. There’s nothing gullible about being healthy and living in a clean world…

By: Deja

Deja — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:49:54 +0000

Regardless of ‘Global Warming’ or even Environmentalism, it’s important that think about the impact and repercussions of the work we create. We must take responsibility for the positive or negative effects our work has on the world. Many people are acknowledging the negative effects design can have on the environment, so they are acting on it. This does not mean they are an ignorant fear-driven followers of a fad. Whether you believe in global warming or not, you should be thinking about the meaning and impact of your work.

By: Matthew Carson

Matthew Carson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:16:12 +0000

Sorry but as soon as the phrase “climate change” pops up, I know to prepare for a snow-job (pun intended). I am sick and tired of the greenies shoving their new ‘Earth worship’ on everyone.

As a thinking individuals, it is time to expose the true motivations of today’s self-proclaimed enviros, who are shown to take seriously the line: “We’re from the government, and we’re here to help you!” Their priorities have been shown to be global government, tight controls over individuals, and the leveling the playing field for business by transferring wealth from developed countries to the rest. Since human-caused warming has little basis in science, enviro beliefs must be considered to be a strange religion. In addition, claims of consensus for the alarmist views can be shown how many climatologists with credentials, as well as other scientists, do not agree with the alarmist view.

It is sad to see our profession buying wholesale into the greenie fad — following the Pied Pipers into totalitarian/fascist future. We as a group should not participate in complicity of mainstream media in the climate hoaxes and their misrepresentations.

“As the curtain descends on the remnants of scientific inquiry into and free speech about “environmental” and other such issues of controversy, we confront a circumstance in which a naturally driven climate is seized upon to cow a population with fear by governments seeking to expand their powers and businesses itching to profit from Man’s gullibility.” — Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming