Manufactured Landscapes

as the proverb say "a picture is worth a thousands words"

Edward Burtynsky has proved in his documentary that pictures are more effective and influential than anything else.

I think this documentary has given me a paradigm shift in the global destruction that is made by humans, Edward Burtynsky was successful in opening our eyes to see the human destruction and the impact of our existence in this beautiful planet.

this documentary gave me an aesthtic experience with the shocking photos of the industrial work in China. just by showing the pictures of the factories was enough to realize how this industrialization and modernization is driving us to hell instead of serving us.

Who gets to say what to whom

Mr. Carlin said in 1991 "I got this immoral thing that called thinking and I'm not a good american because I like to form my own opinion, I have two rules, first rule, I don't believe anything the government tells me."

Media is changing our values and what we believe in, whenever you turn on News we hear about the terrorism countries axis of evil, give me a break, what about Israel and United states, millions of women are widow and children are orphans because of the peace american and Isreal are aiming to. what really irritates me is that everyone here believe this, literally we are indoctrinated by the media.

People who are controlling the media are only 0.5 % of the population. they are trying to indoctrinate their beliefs in every thing we watch, an animated film was made in 2007 called Persepolis, this is an example of a film that was made to to indoctrinate people into the next terrorism country. It is a propaganda, they do it for politics. bullshit. I don't believe anything media tells me, i believe the opposite of everything I hear.

after realizing how we are influenced by media especially after watching Fair and lovely ad in class, Let's try to answer this question, Who OWNS the MEDIA?

these link answer this question

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2wbMfWjMas&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZfdlg7wOCg&feature=related

The Culture Influence of Brands

Advertising is brainwashing us into buying things we never thought we might need, just to get money from us and makes us slaves to the brands. Advertising is being displayed everywhere on TV, newspaper, magazines, billboards. We are influenced by advertising, We live in a Capitalistic world where all the brands and corporations are owned by only 2% of the population.

Socially Responsible Advertising

do you want to convince me that people who created Pampers campaign really care about these children dying in Africa!!!
They don't care, They are taking advantages of these cause and these childern dying in Africa to promote their product and get you BUY their Brand!!

Timing is everything

I believe as a Graphic Designer we should have an idea of what is going on on the world, so when we design an ad or a poster for a campaing we can get to our taret audinece at the best time. and karekaters is a good way to tackle social and political issues. However, I think Tash ma tash was tackling only social issues!!! with a very superficial way without going deep to it.

Reporteres without Borders

Freedom of opinion and press is a human right and shouldn't be limited. However, I think we have to draw a line, I believe opposing governments should be allowed, criticizing religion with respect without making fun of it shoud be allowed, However, I think blogs and websitete connected with morality like pornography must be banned.

Ethical Design Education

As designers I believe we have responsibility towords human, everything we desgin we must think about it the product and the corporation itself. However, I think it is easy to say we have responsibility but it's difficult to apply it in the 21 century. Almost 99% of the products have harmful effects, psychological, physical, and spiritual, All fast food, not only have physical effects but also spiritual. Also, a product like Fair and lovely have both psychological and physical effects. Also, most of the corporations are owned by the elite 2% of the world's population.

so i think it's our decision we chose this major and we know that it's so attached to the corporation, so it is our responsibility to not design anything for harmful products.