Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility (Second Edition)

Seventy-plus essays wrestling with what it means to design responsibly inside a corporate, over-branded culture — when to take a stand, when a designer owns the client's actions. It puts the SDF's Ethics motto and its design-is-political stance to the professional test. Edited by Steven Heller and Véronique Vienne, the book gathers more than seventy essays and interviews addressing the question of what it means to be a designer in today's corporate-driven, overbranded consumer culture. The second edition adds new essays on social innovation, individual advocacy and group strategies, and includes case studies on the issues today's designers must weigh, from reality branding and advertising to design's role as an environmental force. It encourages designers to research their clients carefully, stay alert to political and social developments, and consider when a designer bears responsibility for a client's actions.