Resistance Design vs War Design

Abstract

Today design is becoming a tool of war. Projecting a small section of life or information space, a designer himself is not actually fully realizing that he makes a global impact. He spreads the form, in which human consciousness consumes both industrial and informational product. The armed war launched by the Russian Federation against Ukraine has not yet begun and was prepared in a way that does not directly bring death and destruction. It was prepared by creating a "parallel reality" primarily in people’ consciousness through achievements in the field of design with a combination of high technologies including web design, virtual and augmented reality, collage and photomontage. Even those elementary visual formulas that were given by the Bauhaus or the avant-garde, minimalism and deconstructivism were used with the opposite effect and primarily for the manipulation of human consciousness.