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Kelly Small

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KELLY SMALL (they/them) is an award-winning creative director, designer, educator, and author whose career is driven by the pursuit of practical action toward ethical, inclusive, and sustainable futures. Founder of creative agency Intents & Purposes, professor of design ethics with the School of Design at George Brown College, and affiliated design researcher with Emily Carr University, Kelly holds an interdisciplinary master’s in design and received the Governor General’s Gold Medal for their research into the ethics of commercial creative practice. Kelly is currently authoring a book about practical ethics for a youth audience and serving on the board of directors for The ArQuives, the largest LGBTQ2+ archives in the world.

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“Peace is not the absence of war but the absence of fear.”
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tags: fear, peace, war

“Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.”
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