Benson, Eric

Ideas for Integrating Sustainability into Graphic Design Pedagogy: American Case Studies

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Benson, EricUniversity of Illinois, USA

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Graphic Design & Visual Art
Ideas for Integrating Sustainability into Graphic Design Pedagogy

This Article provides an initial overview of the professional graphic designers’ negative environmental impact and why their method of design for planned obsolescence must change. It argues thereafter that the American university graphic design curriculum should evolve to include an initial discussion of sustainability through a required studio design course on the topic.

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