Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Personal or Business

How far is too far? What’s my “design limit?” How will I decide when to say, “Yes, I accept the project” or “No, I cannot accept the project”?
I never thought about this until my instructor introduced the topic as a discussion question: what won’t I design?
I enrolled in school to study interior design with a goal to one day influence the use of interior spaces. I never thought about certain spaces being “off limits.”

ABORTION CLINIC                 
 
PLACE OF WORSHIP
                                        
STRIP CLUB
                   PRISON
                                             MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY

 
Will I or won’t I? Will I one day make professional decisions based on my personal beliefs? Will designing for a business, whose practices I don’t believe in, identify me as a hypocrite? Will my professional decisions impact my personal convictions? Are the two related at all?

My professional decisions are just business…
Right?