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Omnipresence of advertising = language formulated around sales

“When we realize the promise fails, we feel even more empty, even miserable. Luckily there is always another product around the corner that once again promises us happiness.”

Finished the Designer As Engineer section. Capitalism goes hand in hand with standardization (of which is never unbiased) as well as simplification and efficiency. Maps and mapmaking is very subjective and often times Eurocentric maps (which are most) exclude a vast majority of much more critical and culturally complex information.

beginning section talks about how the first function of a graphic designer was to create a design for coinage that would establish trust between strangers, often meant to keep track of trading during sea fairing. one side bares the face of the sovereign, the other has various anti-counterfeiting measures