Question of the Week:

A note  from the last Occupy Design meeting, it has me pondering: 

Design For Occupy. Occupy Design

This weekend I took part in the Occupy Design workshop (occupydesign.org.uk). I'm going to keep it brief. It may seem that the design industry is very much centered around consumption; which at times appears to exploit the basic human instinct of 'wanting more' through adverts, brands etc. However with movements such as Occupy there's suddenly a chance for designers, students and everyone (the 99%) to speak out against this. If there's one thing I've taken away from this weekend it's that: it's not just about designing for Occupy. It's also about Occupying design.

Occupy LSX

Today I went to check out how Occupy LSX was coming along in St Paul's. There were some great little flyers, posters and print material hanging about so I'm now all tooled/researched up for a new personal graphics project. I'm hoping to get cracking on it when I have a few minutes to spare. On a side note, if you're not up for going the whole way and pitching a tent out there too, then I recommend following @OccupyLSX.