This is my small publication design. The content of this publication design is based on the project "Design Ethics: Should Designers Take Responsibility for the Ethics of Their Clients? Is the desire to innovate for socially conscious companies dead?” by James Cartwright, published on AIGA Eye On Design on February 13th, 2017. The layout design that has been carried out.
Design Ethics. Image: The physical photos of my small publication and the original pictures designed with InDesign.
In the courses of Week 6 and Week 7, I first learned about the article "Design Ethics", which explored the moral obligations of designers towards their clients and society. This article also encouraged professional designers, design students, and industry stakeholders interested in the moral and social responsibilities of the design profession to consider their roles beyond aesthetic or commercial interests and cultivate a sense of moral responsibility.
After that, I learned how to use InDesign for text layout and how to make the overall content of an article look neater in different ways. I used the knowledge I learned to make more experimental designs. At first, my design was actually in black and white, with very small text and overly compact content. So I changed it to the current appearance. I used pink and black as the main colors for the design and used some special designs, such as changing the font to hollow, adding different fonts and colors, and reducing the number of words in the layout, etc. This was a great improvement.
For the choice of origami, I used the 31st one in the "Folding_Guide_Poster", which is the "Open Gate Speciaity" origami method. Due to time constraints, I used ordinary A4 paper to piece them together to form this small publication, but the effect was still good.
This design allowed me to make good use of InDesign for text layout. I made some attempts and changes, which also brought me a lot of progress.
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