When thinking about how this theme could be linked more directly to specific areas of design I could look at government campaigns, mass media organisations and also advertising, as these are just a few examples of huge influences on a modern society that have the ability to control and limit us.
Need to research into these areas to see which interests me the most.
Designers who devote their efforts primarily to advertising, marketing and brand development are supporting, and implicitly endorsing, a mental environment so saturated with commercial messages that it is changing the very way citizen-consumers speak, think, feel, respond and interact. To some extent we are all helping draft a reductive and immeasurably harmful code of public discourse.
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