Manifesto's

The following task was to; produce a 5 point manifesto with influence from 5 published manifestos related to Design & the practice of art. My personal manifesto should be a reflection of the designer I want to be...

The definition of a Manifesto...'a public declaration of intent, policy, aims, etc'

5 Published Manifestos.

Bauhaus Manifesto 

• The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative efforts into one whole.
• To reunify all the disciplines of practical art (sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and the crafts) as inseparable components of a new architecture.
• The unified work of art in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.
• To educate architects, painters, and sculptors of all levels, according to their capabilities, to become competent craftsmen or independent creative artists and to form a working community of leading and future artist-craftsmen.
• Art rises above all methods; in itself it cannot be taught, but the crafts certainly can be.

Big Potatoes - The London Manifesto for Innovation

• THINK BIG
• GO BEYOND THE POST-WAR LEGACY OF INNOVATION
• PRINCIPLES, NOT MODELS
• INNOVATION IS HARD WORK
• FOR SUCCESS, EXPECT LOTS OF FAILURES
• TAKE RISKS
• INNOVATION DEMANDS LEADERSHIP

A Manifesto for Sustainability in Design

• Stop Making Crap  

And that means that we have to stop making crap. It's really as simple as that. We are suffocating, drowning, and poisoning ourselves with the stuff we produce, abrading, out-gassing, and seeping into our air, our water, our land, our food—and basically those are the only things we have to look after before there's no we in that sentence. It gets into our bodies, of course, and it certainly gets into our minds. And designers are feeding and feeding this cycle, helping to turn everyone and everything into either a consumer or a consumable. And when you think about it, this is kind of grotesque. "Consumer" isn't a dirty word exactly, but it probably ought a be.

• Teach Sustainability Early

Design education is at a crossroads, with many schools understanding the potentials, opportunities, and obligations of design, while others continue to teach students how to churn out pretty pieces of garbage. Institutions that stress sustainability, social responsibility, cultural adaptation, ethnography, and systems thinking are leading the way. But soon they will come to define what industrial design means. (A relief to those constantly trying to define the discipline today!) This doesn't mean no aesthetics. It just means a keener eye on costs and benefits.

• Balance Before Talents

The proportion of a solution needs to balance with its problem: we don't need a battery-powered pooper scooper to pick up dog poop, and we don't need a car that gets 17 MPG to, well, we don't need that car, period. We have to start balancing our ability to be clever with our ability to be smart. They're two different things.

• Context Before Absolutely Everything

Understanding that all design happens within a context is the first (and arguably the only) stop to make on your way to becoming a good designer. You can be a bad designer after that, of course, but you don't stand a chance of being a good one if you don't first consider context. It's everything: In graphics, communication, interaction, architecture, product, service, you name it—if it doesn't take context into account, it's crap. And you already promised not to make any more of that.

• Systems Before Artifacts

Before we design anything new, we should examine how we can use what already exists to better ends. We need to think systems before artifacts, services before products, adopting Thackara's use/not own principles at every step. And when new products are needed, they'll be obvious and appropriate, and then can we conscientiously pump up fossil fuels and start polymerizing them. Product design should be part of a set of tools we have for solving problems and celebrating life. It is a means, not an end.

The Manifesto for the Cloud Appreciation Society

WE BELIEVE that clouds are unjustly maligned

and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them.

We think that they are Nature’s poetry, 

and the most egalitarian of her displays, since 

everyone can have a fantastic view of them.

We pledge to fight ‘blue-sky thinking’ wherever we find it. 

Life would be dull if we had to look up at 

cloudless monotony day after day.

We seek to remind people that clouds are expressions of the 

atmosphere’s moods, and can be read like those of 

a person’s countenance.

Clouds are so commonplace that their beauty is often overlooked. 

They are for dreamers and their contemplation benefits the soul. 

Indeed, all who consider the shapes they see in them will save 

on psychoanalysis bills.

And so we say to all who’ll listen:

Look up, marvel at the ephemeral beauty, and live life with your head in the clouds!

Apple's manifesto

• We believe that we're on the face of the earth to make great products.
• We're constantly focusing on innovating.
• We believe in the simple, not the complex.
• We believe we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products that we make and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution.
• We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can focus on the few that are meaningful to us. 
• We believe in deep collaboration and cross pollination in order to innovate in a way others cannot. 
• We don't settle for anything other than excellence in any group in the company.
• We have the self-honesty to admit when we're wrong and the courage to change.

A visual Manifesto.

PERSONAL MANIFESTO - STEPHEN MAHER.

1..I need to understand that all design happens within a context, otherwise there wouldn't be relevant communication. If it doesn't take context into account. it's useless.

2..Balance my solutions with the problems. This means I need to take into account my ability to be clever with the ability to be smart.

3..My mistakes aren't useless, they're a reminder of what not to do next time.

4..Never think the future's going to be better, act now.

5..Examine how I can use what already exists to better ends.

6..Accept that change will happen.