Can Designer change the world?
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I'd say that the majority of design helps the world to stay the same.
The world's a very diverse place, but take our nicely developed society as an example. Our world consists of constantly presenting the consumer with the 'new', which is then assimilated and subsequently discredited by socitey, necessitating the emergence of the new 'new'.
The way design is approached, particularly graphic design, only serves to grease the wheel s of that machine. Design beyond function is a completely unecessary process, but esential in order to sustain the seasonal assimilation. Basically, one of the foundations of the philiosophy of specialisation within specialization of postmodern western society.
Of course, you could go back to ye oldern days, birth of the notion of genius, blah blah blah blah, the quest to get as close to God as possible via the aquisition of the works of someone who already holds that position blah blah . . . .
Once again I've explained myself very poorly, but there it is
Before you ask, yes I have got my head up my arse. Where else are you going to see design like that?