this is an essay on how activists and graphic designers can work together

For many years graphic designers have been influencing human behavior and thought through the use color, placement, font, and imagery to present specific moods or reactions in order to create a desired effect. When this is done for political purposes we have come to know it as propaganda. Many times throughout history people have utilized this power for great evil. For instance, both Hitler and Stalin used propaganda in the 1930's to bolster support and …

…an important message out to everyone. We have also worked against ourselves also, by creating more and more cluster we have created a nation with such a short attention span that we have to work even harder to get their attention, on the good side I notice a trend that is producing much simpler and easy to decipher designs in a whole in order to stand out against all the clutter of today's electronic world.