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David speaks on how to make the planet your client at Savannah College of Art and Design’s Design Ethos 2012 conference in Savannah Georgia, April 19 2012. More on Design Ethos 2012
Reviewed March 28, 2012
David keynotes at SCAD’s Design Ethos 2012 conference
I have been thrilled at the prospect of being in Melbourne for AgIdeas and the excitement doubled when I was researching an Ethics essay and discovered Do Good: How Designers can change the world. I could not put it down (I did read through the appendices. The notes were a real highlight too) and the section that got my mind racing was the call for the certification/ registration of designers. This is an issue that I feel needs to be addressed within Australia.
And so, I would like ask you, please, as a student of the Design Profession and a person who firmly believes “First, do no harm”, during your presentation at AgIdeas in May (Melbourne, Australia), can you please make a call to the Design Community of Australia to initiate the right actions to introduce the Certification of Designers as a professional designation protected by law. I feel it is of utmost importance to the future of Design in Australia and the rights of all Australians.
I think you’re the right person to do this and an authority who’s voice will be heard. If you can not make the call to the audience, I hope you can start the right conversation with the right people.
I am so grateful for your time and am really looking forward to hearing you speak at this years event. I really hope that we can initiate change in the Australian Design Community.
Kind regards,
Kel McIntosh
Kel, thank you for your kind words, and your brilliant focus.
I can’t think of a more important message to share with designers when I am in Melbourne in May than the importance of raising the bar of our profession in this way.
I shall do so!
And I look forward to meeting you in person.