Manifesto
Manifesto: a published verbal declaration of the intentions, motives or views.
MY MANIFESTO
To be dedicated in finding new ways to produce meaning full design, personal to me. Also to push the boundaries of what of what I have previously achieved. I would also like to focus on understand more theoretical practises.
-Be different/ stand out
-Don’t trust everything
-Always start at the beginning
-Be open to suggestion
-Don’t take criticism so personal
-Be less afraid
-Critic everything/ break it down
-Learn to make mistakes
-THINK! ask! WHY!
First Things First
We looked at this briefly in the lecture.
Written in 1963 and published in 1964 by Ken Garland along with 20 other designers, photographers and students, the manifesto was a reaction to the staunch society of 1960s Britain and called for a return to a humanist aspect of design.
It lashed out against the fast-paced and often trivial productions of mainstream advertising, calling them trivial and time-consuming. Its solution was to focus efforts of design on education and public service tasks that promoted the betterment of society. Ken Garland comments, ‘Inexplicably, to me, reverberations [of the manifesto] are still being felt.’ The manifesto was quick to reach a wide audience through the media – it was picked up by The Guardian, which led to a TV appearance by Garland on a BBC news program and its subsequent publication in a variety of journals, magazines and newspapers. It rallied against the consumerist culture that was purely concerned with buying and selling things and tried to highlight a Humanist dimension to graphic design theory. It was later updated and republished with a new group of signatories as the First Things First 2000 manifesto.
It was revisited and republished by a group of new authors in the year 2000 and labeled as the First Things First
Manifesto 2000.
More recently, in 2014, the First Things First Manifesto has been further amended and developed by a group describing themselves as ‘designers, developers, creative technologists, and multi-disciplinary communicators. This updated version calls for ‘a refocus of priorities, in favour of more lasting, democratic forms of communication’, with a focus on an even more ‘ethical, critical ethos’ for the manifesto
