“Liever naïef dan passief”(“It is better to be naive then to be passive”) is the title of my thesis that looks for graphic design to be more social. I talk about the future and how it used to be part of the profession, it is no use to reminisce, these where other times in a whole other kind of society. I want to look at it in a new way and look for places were interesting things are happening.

I talk about the importance of a public sphere were al kinds of people meet each other. It should be a place where people can develop an opinion. I discuss the importance of a stream of information that is independent and how the internet is sort of showing that kind of information already (weblogs, newsgroups, forums). Finally I look at a generation of young designers that are trying to use there graphic design skills to make interesting, more socially aware, work. My complete thesis can be found on the "HELLO" page. It can be downloaded as an Adobe PDF file (only availlable in Dutch).