Socialist Designers

Socialist Designers is a collective of politically conscious graphic designers who have agreed to follow an indisputable set of rules.

Nowadays, Designers forget to use their own unique touch in their work. They depend on stock photo that found on the Internet, even if they know how to photograph what they need, they just don't do it. They just find the easy way out to find what they want from internet which i think their designs would be so typical and repeated. It doesn't mean thats way is wrong, but there are many ways to avoid less using the photos from internet ( stock photos).

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Reality Branding

To communicate with today´s audience who are completely sick of advertising, we need to communicate facts and real benefits, not features and value based statements. Many ads are really good in the that have been designed so it grabs the consumers attention, but on the other hand it could be as bad as many others because for instance the product it self harmful to user. Clients are very strict in promoting their selves and product, but we as graphic design we have a our way to convenes the clients ideas in design by facts and be aware of it. 

In my opinion I think the best way to sell the product is basically having a true ad design and the most important thing is having the trust of consumers.

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Who Gets to Say What to Whom?

In our daily life we see many ads, posters, in magazines, newspaper and even media. Media has become the big communication that people are influenced by, and we as graphic designers have to put in consideration what is the message that we are delivering to the consumer in a creative and understandable way even if their is something wrong that affects negatively in our culture.

For example, sometimes the designer designing the ad without thinking if its right or wrong just because the client asked him to to, whats the point and why we have to such a humiliating ads that could be designed by other way?

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Finally, we have to say no and stop designing something that could affect negatively on the audience.

Think Globally, Upload locally

BY J.D. Biersdorfer

J.D. Biersdorfer is a member of the newsroom technology staff at The New York Times. She was heavily involved with the recent conversion of the Sunday Times Magazine to a desktop publishing system, and now spends her workdays providing technical support, writing documentation andoccasionally testing new software.She has wandered into the digital world from a decidedly liberal arts direction, having spent four years at Indiana University in pursuit of a theater degree while working nights at IU's campus newspaper, The Indiana Daily Student.

After two seasons as a technician in various regional theaters around the country, she moved to New York City in 1989 ,Coming from a non-technical background herself, Biersdorfer is dedicated to finding the most efficient ways of explaining computers to new and bewildered users in the simplest language possible.

She has worked in the production departments of Men's Journal and McCall's magazines, has written for Rolling Stone and The New York Times Book Review and plays harmonica and 5-string banjo in her dwindling spare time.

Thesis:

The internet is a free space for anyone to express themselves and this has positive as well a negative
impact .


Introduction:

-The world wide web is easily accessible by everyone around the world , it’s a place where people can write or upload whatever they had in mind with no restrictions , this fact may have positive and negative impact as far as content and accuracy of information.

-New software have made the web design process simple for any ordinary person , weather professional or not

-Websites have revolutionized the way in which we seek information and has taken the place of the book.


Outline and brief:

-Before websites and internet professionals take a lot of time and effort designing and writing for books and magazine making sure the information is accurate and being responsible about every word they write, keeping in mind the reader .

-Now websites are much easier to find an information than a book it has colors, animation, obvious icons guiding the reader through multiple pages. Because of this ease people have a place to express their thought ideas and information.

-Free speech has made people think globally expressing their thoughts in a selfish way that made them forget how it could effects the readers.

-As a nature incent when children find themselves surrounded by all these website they will surely explore this world with endless information , where they can stumble upon websites that are not suitable for their age .

- Ordinary people who upload information , are not aware of the design aspect of the web pages such as layouts and easily guiding the readers through the pages . They must make sure that links are always functional and information are up-to-date .

- Hocks , roomers , political jocks can make a huge misunderstanding between countries.

Examples

International:

Local :

Question:

1) How can we solve this problem of false information and badly designed websites?

2) Do you think blocking websites in Saudi Arabia is necessary ?

3) Have you ever believed a rumor and how did you figure out the truth 
    (did you search about it or did you find out through a friend later) ?

4) How do you tell if a website that has accurate information, and what do you base it on 
    ( for example )?
5) (freedom of speech), when do a person shut up?

The Cultural Influence of Brands

Thesis:
The article addresses business ideas that have achieved cultural influence.

The writer:
Chris Riley, he is the head of planing in the graphic design group of apple. and the founder of studio Riley.

History of the article:
It is relevant us new because we are all surrounded with brands.
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At first i thought that we are using imported brands and we don't have our own needs instead of letting brands define needs that are impossible to be defined which means that we are all letting brands define who we are even though we don't need it we just go and buy for the sake of fashion. for instance, blackberry phones first this kind of phone where introduced in Mobily company for business men or people who need to attached with in there businesses, but nowadays everybody got one, personally am one of the people don't have blackberry because I hate technology in certain time, but I f am going to get one just because everybody has it. 

One of the question:

• Do we have a local Identity of our own in the market or is it all imported?

- Some of the brands are imported, but we do have our local brands.

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Fashion wise ex:

Finally, We are all into fashion and international brands that it makes our identity invisible.