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(book review)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Do Good Design<\/span>: How Designers Can Change The World<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n by David B. Berman<\/em><\/p>\n AIGA Design Press \/ New Riders (Peachpit)<\/p>\n David B. Berman\u2019s important new book is honest, timely, and hard-hitting, delivered with in-your-face directness\u2014it presents a strong argument regarding the inherent power of design to shape our world and takes on greed, excess, and the scheming tendencies of advertising and \u201ctargeted\u201d visual communications. Full of pithy quotations, well illustrated (with wide-ranging examples of manipulative media and manufactured needs) and impressively annotated and cross-referenced, Do Good Design<\/span><\/em> rails against the consumptive excesses of the so-called \u201cdeveloped world\u201d and urges designers to help steer a better course for our planet\u2014before it\u2019s too late. David combines his keen observation skills with courage to question the status quo, expressing his marathon call for positive change with passionate zeal. In his words, \u201cthe future of civilization is our common design project.\u201d<\/p>\n I have known David (Duv to his friends) for nearly 20 years and have had the ongoing pleasure of interaction with him on matters relating to design ethics and the role design can play in shaping a more equitable and sustainable future. Thanks for writing this important book, Duv\u2014and keep up the \u201cgood\u201d work.<\/p>\n + + +<\/p>\n I highly recommend that you buy this book, that you read it, and that you then act<\/em> on it. Next, donate your copy to (or buy another for) your local library\u2014it\u2019s that important. See David\u2019s call to action (from an Icograda talk in Hong Kong) here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (book review) Do Good Design: How Designers Can Change The World by David B. Berman AIGA Design Press \/ New Riders (Peachpit) David B. Berman\u2019s important new book is honest, timely, and hard-hitting, delivered with in-your-face directness\u2014it presents a strong argument regarding the inherent power of design to shape our world and takes on greed, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,7,11,14,15,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16517,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/16517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}