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On Traditions — Climate Designers

Let’s talk traditions. It was last month’s theme here at Climate Designers and November (and December) are a great time to think about…

4 min readFeb 2, 2022

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On Traditions — Climate Designers

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UX Collective

Define the default: good design is about impact and responsibility

Reckoning with our responsibility not just to our clients but to everyone and to the planet.

11 min readDec 1, 2021

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Text on a green background that reads, “Graphic design, noun: The art or profession of using design elements (such as typography and images) to convey information.” Some of the text, “or create an effect” is crossed out in red, and the text finishes, “like values or ethics that influence behavior and culture. This information has the power to build up or to destroy and impacts peoples’ lives everyday.”

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UX Collective

Size matters not: enabling designers to take small actions on climate

Focusing on meaningful change rather than big impacts

11 min readOct 28, 2021

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A graphic of a rolling counter with eight positions beginning with the number one on a dark green background.

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UX Collective

Designing and the climate crisis

5 reasons that climate change needs to be a part of the design process.

20 min readAug 11, 2021

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Image of an Apple computer desktop with Photoshop crashing. The woodlands in the background catch fire and then an error dialogue pops up, reading, “Could not save because of a critical error. Please try again.”

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Matt McGillvray

A new path: design and activism for climate justice

I’m working on a book about graphic design activism and its intersection with the movement for climate justice. This below is a condensed…

5 min readOct 28, 2020

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A new path: design and activism for climate justice

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Matt McGillvray

It’s time for a new generation of design organizations

When is the last time you really got something out of your AIGA membership? Like, really? You pay how much for membership and what, you go…

9 min readOct 11, 2020

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It’s time for a new generation of design organizations

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Matt McGillvray

The value of graphic design

I’ve written before about how the importance of graphic design—and commercial art as a whole—requires a renewed set of ethical standards…

10 min readApr 20, 2020

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The value of graphic design

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Matt McGillvray

Ethics in design: Being a moral force for positive change as a visual artist

Where the flavor is

10 min readJan 19, 2020

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Ethics in design: Being a moral force for positive change as a visual artist

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Matt McGillvray

Ethics in design: Making a case for a new morality in commercial art

When is the last time that you considered the importance of commercial art?

6 min readDec 30, 2019

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Ethics in design: Making a case for a new morality in commercial art

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Matt McGillvray

Matt McGillvray

Graphic/Web Designer | Portland, Maine. Writing about ethics in design and working on a book about the intersection between design activism & the climate crisis

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