Designing for Social Change
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- vaxorcist0
hmmm... monkeyshine and d_rek both have interesting ideas here.... especially about how critical thinking is a much more than just purely graphic design skill, and how we can bring different mindsets to things that might be stuck in trench warfare of political hardliners, and able to illustrate our ideas rather than just shout them. That can be a great thing, and I'd like to see more designers put themselves out there.. but without the ego stomping oddity I sometimes see...
I have learned that I have to pick my battles and comrades carefully, as I once worked in a nonprofit that was great, involved and successful till a the boss left for annother gig and it became a rather political and backstabbing environment.
The key to me is to make sure you're surrounding yourself with emotionally health people who could make a living elsewhere, rather than insecure people who are trying to plug a hole in their souls with the social design work and probably could never get a job elsewhere.