Lucienne Roberts Talk

Notes:

• Her background and parents have had a huge influence on her design practice
• After college went and worked for the Women's Press, feminist brand
• The David Miliband labour party failed because of the graphic design being too 'slick' shows how much of an impact design actually has on society
• Politics highly influences her work
• Written a book about Graphic Design and ethics 'Good: An introduction to ethics in graphic design'. Attracted a lot of non-designers
• The idea for the books is to add on a different topic/name at the end of the title, e.g. Graphic Design & Literature (the first book), then it was Graphic Design & Mathematics. 
• She found the politics and health related projects most interesting and relevant to graphic design:

- Graphic Design & Health: 
-The health project and exhibition was titled 'Can Graphic Design save your life?'. One of the pieces shown in the exhibition was the un-branded cigarette packets, other work at the exhibition included hospital interiors, ambulance deliveries and public health campaigns (Aids and HIV).
-Illustrator Katie Green wrote and illustrated a book about her anorexia and mentioned that graphic design CAN save your life, as the book helped make her better.

-Graphic Design & Politics: 
-Hope To Nope in 2017.
-The exhibition for the politics project took place in a museum in London, this project was much more of a struggle, whether showing certain things was appropriate or ethical etc. The end exhibition was a success, however...on July the 17th there was a show about Social Media and Jeremy Corbyn in the same building which caused an arms trade held in the venue which meant that the Design Museum has lost the right to host an exhibition on a radical project.
-She mentions that curation is about telling a story

• 'Slogans in nice typefaces won't save the human races' this statement from a poster went against everything she believed in...so they then took this poster apart and made a project from it. This proved that the statement is wrong.
• Design is ALWAYS political- Talk by Mike Monteiro
• Being ethical within graphic design is getting harder and harder- it was much easier when she started out as a designer.