Two Articles

"Research and Destroy"

After this reading I feel that it was saying that designers shouldn't feel constricted to designing for consumers. Informing the public and attempting to change the world should also be an objective of designers. Also graphic design has gone through a segregation period, for lack of a better word, when it comes to the working and the out of work. which comes through in this quote:

"It is not so strange that a branch of graphic design has evolved that no longer hangs around waiting for an assignment, but instead takes action on its own accord. It has polarized into the ‘willing to work’, who often have little or no control over their own positions, and the ‘out of work’, who, with little economic support beyond  re-channelled [sic] subsidies or grants, work on innovation for the sake of innovation."



"The Consumer: The Republic of Fat"

This article highlights what I feel are some main reasons we have an obesity problem in the nation. The yields of farmers were getting better and that resulted in people not knowing what to do with their extra grain. The surplus of corn led to corn being in all of our food and that has led to the nation eating over processed foods.