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Corporate disinformation
Design is often complicit in corporate disinformation – where visual strategies are used to mask harm and promote profit. Through branding, ads, and packaging, harmful products like tobacco or fossil fuels are made to appear safe or desirable. These campaigns are intentional, relying on emotional appeal, repetition, and aesthetics. Designers play a role in this manipulation, raising ethical concerns. Today, design isn’t just visual – it’s ideological. Designers must choose: uphold deceptive systems or resist them by exposing truth. Understanding how disinformation works helps create a more transparent visual culture in our image-saturated, narrative-driven world.
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Video
Kasja Jerlagić & Azra Berbić Lecture
Corporate disinformation
Greenwashing
Article
Link
Washington Post gutting its climate team
Corporate disinformation
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