Design Making You Evil
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- scarabin
i've been finding myself doing more and more TV commercial writing, much of it having to do with companies i've always sworn not to work for, such as comcast and microsoft.
writing stuff that makes people feel guilty for not using their services, telling them they'll have a better life with this or that service, stuff i know is clearly not true but that WILL work to part them from their hard-earned money. brainwashing shit.
...i'm starting to feel like part of the problem with the world and consumer culture in general, but it's too late to stop or change course now.
anyone ever feel guilty about this sort of thing or have a similar experience?
- capn_ron0
just get out to burning man already and you'll be all cured.
- ukit0
What exactly did you expect when you signed up to work in the "advertising industry?" Little fluffy bunnies and unicorns?
- i just wanted to make beautiful thingsscarabin
- ...and be paid for itscarabin
- but in that situation you depend on someone else handing you their message for you to make pretty. even if it's an ugly message
joewigdahlphoto - Then you should have joined a design firm, not an ad agency.randommail
- doesnotexist0
you can be the difference
- Milan0
ya, start a revolution, fuck the corporations and their brainwashing!
- pizzafire0
i think you mean advertising and not design?
- ukit0
This is kinda like the Adbusters mentality "Let's use our powers for good and not evil."
The problem is that good doesn't pay very much.
- i don't know about that. Adusters actually put together a good publication for a while there.pizzafire
- "The problem is that good doesn't pay very much." fuck that mentalityMilan
- < Fuck having to pay student loans for 40yrs. "Good" doesn't get me out of enslavement.palmer_
- and adbusters depends on a lot of ad sales to print their magazine. you ever see how much fashion stuff they have?
joewigdahlphoto
- cannonball19780
two choices
A) Decide you like your conscience and go do something that will make you happy.
B) Get that money.
P.S. "but it's too late to stop or change course now." bull fuckin shit
- scarabin0
i think i'm leaning toward B
- LOLJackRyan
- dolla dolla bill, y'all.ninjasavant
- then why are you complaining?kkills
- ninjasavant0
I did work for oil companies. I sleep fine.
- cognitive dissonance?scarabin
- diminutive cognizance.ninjasavant
- < hahaha!ukit
- akrokdesign0
YOU EVIL BAAAAAAASTARD!
- ukit0
- d_rek0
Fuck you.
- thoughtandtheory0
Your skill-set could be used to creating a company that makes amazing things you instead of working for ones you don't believe in. It's hard, but it's the best option.
- Ugh. Sorry for all the typos, this was on an iphone.thoughtandtheory
- TheBlueOne0
sounds to me like you've made your choice and now retro-actively trying to feel better about it.
- tOki0
My first full time design job was working in a company that sold software which "intelligently" "chose" winners at the tracks. In truth it was a load of crap and cost thousands of dollars to purchase.
I didn't know this when they hired me, but yes I'm going to hell
- Projectile0
yeah my favourite hated term, which is throw around so lightly in advertising agencies is "creating demand". I mean why the hell do we need to create demand? that just sums up everything that is wrong and evil about capitalism. And it seems the recession hasn't taught anyone anything.. they still splashing out on needless crap, just not on organic food or holidays anymore.
- Boz0
well don't accept those projects then. Simple eh?
Oh wait, you want to make money? More money then you need?
It's capitalism. Simple as that. I've worked with huge corporations and movie industry and car industry and I picked projects I liked for the most part. I can personally hate companies this is my job and I l love designing, creating. Unless it hurts someone directly it's about choice. I do feel happy if campaign is successful not because I made people buy a product from a rotten company but the fact that I created something that appealed to people and made good money off of it. That's what makes it worth while.
It's really a choice. You can take those you like, you can decline those you don't. Ask yourself why you do stuff you do.
You can always go and do something that doesn't make you feel that way, but the fact is that your lifestyle and many other things change. So you can't really have it both ways. Altruism was never profitable.
So if we do what we do and complain about evil capitalism, it makes us kind of hypocrites, doesn't it?
- roundabout0
The tooth companies are the worst for TV advertising, it's like watching Paranoia TV, fucking hilarious.