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- lowimpakt0
tempo MANIFESTO
tempo members will design with integrity, sensitivity and compassion. They will design products/service products that are sustainable i.e. those which serve human needs without depleting natural and manmade resources, without damage to the carrying capacity and diversity of ecosystems and without restricting the options available for present and future generations. tempo’s members will seek pluralistic solutions for individual human, social, and environmental well-being and in doing so will help encourage new economic and business frameworks within the ethos of sustainable development.
A tempo member will design to:
· satisfy real needs rather than transient fashionable or market-driven needs
· encourage equity between humankind
· engender maximum benefits of well-being to the intended audience
· ensure physically, culturally, emotionally, mentally and spiritually durable products
· maximise products’ benefits to socio-cultural communities
· celebrate a culture of largo
· foster debate and challenge the status quo surrounding existing products
· exclude innovation lethargy by re-examining original assumptions behind existing products
· educate the client and the user by encouraging sustainable literacy and graphicacy
· dematerialise products into service products wherever there is proven benefit in terms of individual, social and/or environmental well-being
· encourage modularity and upgradability: to permit sequential purchases, as needs and funds permit; to facilitate repair/reuse; to improve functionality
· reduce resource flows and environmental pollution by minimizing the ecological footprint of products/service products
· harness solar income - sun, wind, water or sea power and renewable materials
· enable separation of components of products/service products at the end-of-life in order to encourage recycling, reuse and remanufacturing
· exclude the use of substances toxic or hazardous to human and other forms of life at all stages of the product life cycle
· publish sustainable designs in the public domain for everyone’s benefit, especially those designs that commerce will not manufacture
· promote Design for Sustainability as an opportunity, not a threat, to the status quo
· celebrate diversity and pluralism
· create strange, new beauties that alert all human senses and values
- rabattski0
The Comment Spam Manifesto
- ********0
The SCUM Manifesto
- lowimpakt0
ahh SCUM.
Dogme 95
http://www.dogme95.dk/the_vow/
- clerk0
the avant-pop manifesto
- clerk0
bauhaus manifesto
- clerk0
manifesto of the futurist painters
- ********0
Independence Day Manifesto
- clerk0
First Things First
2000
a design manifestoWe, the undersigned, are graphic designers, art directors and visual communicators who have been raised in a world in which the techniques and apparatus of advertising have persistently been presented to us as the most lucrative, effective and desirable use of our talents. Many design teachers and mentors promote this belief; the market rewards it; a tide of books and publications reinforces it.
Encouraged in this direction, designers then apply their skill and imagination to sell dog biscuits, designer coffee, diamonds, detergents, hair gel, cigarettes, credit cards, sneakers, butt toners, light beer and heavy-duty recreational vehicles. Commercial work has always paid the bills, but many graphic designers have now let it become, in large measure, what graphic designers do. This, in turn, is how the world perceives design. The profession's time and energy is used up manufacturing demand for things that are inessential at best.
Many of us have grown increasingly uncomfortable with this view of design. 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.
There are pursuits more worthy of our problem-solving skills. Unprecedented environmental, social and cultural crises demand our attention. Many cultural interventions, social marketing campaigns, books, magazines, exhibitions, educational tools, television programs, films, charitable causes and other information design projects urgently require our expertise and help.
We propose a reversal of priorities in favor of more useful, lasting and democratic forms of communication - a mindshift away from product marketing and toward the exploration and production of a new kind of meaning. The scope of debate is shrinking; it must expand. Consumerism is running uncontested; it must be challenged by other perspectives expressed, in part, through the visual languages and resources of design.
In 1964, 22 visual communicators signed the original call for our skills to be put to worthwhile use. With the explosive growth of global commercial culture, their message has only grown more urgent. Today, we renew their manifesto in expectation that no more decades will pass before it is taken to heart.
signed:
Jonathan Barnbrook
Nick Bell
Andrew Blauvelt
Hans Bockting
Irma Boom
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Max Bruinsma
Siân Cook
Linda van Deursen
Chris Dixon
William Drenttel
Gert Dumbar
Simon Esterson
Vince Frost
Ken Garland
Milton Glaser
Jessica Helfand
Steven Heller
Andrew Howard
Tibor Kalman
Jeffery Keedy
Zuzana Licko
Ellen Lupton
Katherine McCoy
Armand Mevis
J. Abbott Miller
Rick Poynor
Lucienne Roberts
Erik Spiekermann
Jan van Toorn
Teal Triggs
Rudy VanderLans
Bob Wilkinson
- clerk0
manifesto of negativity
- ********0
oh that's just great clerk, go around reposting most of the stuff already posted!
- clerk0
hey kuz i didn't see any similair posts? what did i miss?
- GreedoLives0
Theo van Doesburg,
Toward a Plastic Architecture
(De Stijl)
http://caad.arch.ethz.ch/teachin…
- lilbabyarm0
that is a great manifesto. BRAVO. lol.. I'm talking about the original one at the start of this thread.
I mean I talk to designers who worked on some bullshit website promoting a product or a movie and they speak as though they have created the highest of artforms. lol. you made a site promoting a movie fool get over yourself... hahahaha
- ********0
Rem Koolhaa, Beijing Manifesto
- ********0
i fuckin love Rem Koolhaas
- pascii0
best thread since a long time!
*raises fist to sky and breathes in deep
- GreedoLives0
*bump
- liquid0
read the design train.....
lets make one......
- ********0
Any thread by me deserves to get bumped...
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the design train manifesto
in the late 90s there was a book and site that came out called the cluetrain manifesto...and it changed businesswell I am writing a design train manifesto.....
I am starting it with these...you may continue....will post the best 100 on my site for public consumption...
1) We will not lower our standards and prices because the "market demands it"
2) We will not let templates become the standard of design
3) Original means Original
4) We won't promise a client 100 hours of work and try to fit it into only 40.
5) When clients don't know we will tell them
6) When clients don't understand we will explain.
7) When clients can't see it, we won't design it for free.
8) We will get everything in writing.
9) We will charge for spec work.
10) Our ideas are worth something not just our PSD's.
11) If a client says there are kids out there working for $10 an hour, we will tell them to find one.
12) We will not allow the oversaturated design market to diminish the quality of our work by forcing us to work quicker.
13) When a client asks for an estimate on the spot we will tell them "we will get back to them"
14) It is never our fault!ok add please.......
liquid
(Nov 27 04, 19:03)