<a href='http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0802/gla/index.html' >12 Steps</a> on the Graphic Designer's Road to Hell

1 Designing a package to look bigger on the shelf.

2 Designing an ad for a slow, boring film to make it seem like a lighthearted comedy.

3 Designing a crest for a new vineyard to suggest that it has been in business for a long time.

4 Designing a jacket for a book whose sexual content you find personally repellent.

5 Designing a medal using steel from the World Trade Center to be sold as a profit-making souvenir of September 11.

6 Designing an advertising campaign for a company with a history of known discrimination in minority hiring.

7 Designing a package aimed at children for a cereal whose contents you know are low in nutritional value and high in sugar.

8 Designing a line of T-shirts for a manufacturer that employs child labor.

9 Designing a promotion for a diet product that you know doesn't work.

10 Designing an ad for a political candidate whose policies you believe would be harmful to the general public.

11 Designing a brochure for an SUV that flips over frequently in emergency conditions and is known to have killed 150 people.

12 Designing an ad for a product whose frequent use could result in the user's death.

All this and more in the current issue of <a href='http://www.metropolismag.com' >Metropolis Magazine</a>