This past spring I spent most of my internship money on…wait for it…books. I saw the light at the end of the (institutional)education tunnel coming, so I was trying to squeeze as much knowledge in the last few months as possible. This is a great book that talks about how design influences and effects culture and why designers should take responsibility for their designs. Berman calls for designers to “take the pledge”, which consists of doing the following…

1. I will be true to my profession.

2. I will be true to myself.

3. I will spend at least 10% of my professional time helping repair the world.

Now, I’m not really a pledgy kinda guy…but this whole bp disaster bothered me. So I decided to do a little piece that may or may not be a part of a series titled, “greed and water”. I’m no expert, but when profit margins take priority over the trivialities of a safety plan…something is drastically wrong. That’s italicized sarcasm.

11" x 14" • digital print