Annotated Bibliography
Cavanagh-Downs, Graham, Design + Environment: A Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods, Greenleaf Publishing, 20001
A practical guide to environmentally friendly and sustainable design
Datshefski, Edwin, The Total Beauty of Sustainable Products, Rotovision, 2001
The advantages of environmentally friendly design and the recent efforts to encourage it
Forty, Adrian, Objects of Desire: Design from Wedgewood to IBM, Pantheon NY, 1986
An anthology on consumerism through time and how companies have promoted themselves
Fuad-Luke, Alistair, The Eco-Design Handbook: A Complete Source for the Home and Office, Thames & Hudson, 2005
A useful book documenting the history of green design and listings of products and where to get them
Glaser, Milton, The Road To Hell, Metropolitan Magazine, 2002
An article in which Glaser writes a tongue in cheek list of ethical questions regarding design to test the reader’s level of conscience
Heller, Steven & Vienne, Veronique, Citizen Designer, Allworth Press US, 2003
Looking at the designer’s responsibility to the public
Howard, Andrew, Design beyond commodification, eye magazine, Issue 38, Winter 2000
An article looking beyond corporate design and towards social issues
Howard, Andrew, First Things First Manifesto 2000, eye magazine, Issue 33, Autumn 1999
The rewritten version of Ken Garland’s 1964 call to action by Adbusters
Howard, Andrew, There is such a thing as society, eye magazine, Issue 13, Summer 1994
Article about socially responsible design
Levine, Maud, Clean New World: Culture, Politics and Graphic Design, Cambridge MIT Press, 2001
How designers can influence politics, mass media and society
Nini, Paul, In Search of Ethics in Graphic Design, Voice: Journal of Design, August 16 2004
An article in which the author outlines his ideas about the designer’s role in relation to the public
Martin C. Pederson, An Interview with Milton Glaser, Metropolis Magazine, August/September 2003
An interview with the influential American practitioner about the way design is taught and the failure to consider the public in the design process
Poyner, Rick, Don’t Buy This, eye magazine, Issue 27, Spring 1998
An article about the role consumerism plays in society today and its effect on design and vice versa
Poyner, Rick, First Things First Revisited, émigré, Issue 51, 1999
The author gives his opinion about the manifesto and its relevance today
Poyner, Rick, Form Follows Purpose, eye magazine, Issue 46, Winter 2002
An article about what a designer is and how the purpose of design should come first
Roth, Richard, King, Susan, Beauty is Nowhere: Ethical Issues in Art and Design, Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis Books Ltd, 1998
A collection of essays from some of the most respected designers today about ethical issues in design
Shaughnessy, Adrian, How to be a Graphic Designer and not lose your soul, Laurence King Publishing, 2005
A book about how to be a designer while still being socially responsible
Ten Duis, Leonie, Hasse, Annelies, The World Must Change: Graphic Design and Idealism, Sandberg Institut, 1999
A social history of graphic design in the Netherlands, with essays that confront idealistic aspirations with their practical realities
Van Eyck, Jan, Design Beyond Design, The Netherlands: Jan van Eyck Akademie Editions, 1998
Proceedings of a conference that looks at the possible critical alternatives to design and practice
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