I spent last night watching through the whole 90 minutes of Neville Brody's speech at the Personal Views series at ESAD.

He started with an update about the (really good) stuff he is doing with his studio through the last years. The second part then was a talk about the role of the graphic designer in our world today, raising lots of questions. How do designers influence society? What should be done? How can we process these gigantic amounts of information? Why do all those choices we seem to have all narrow down upon looking closer? Can we do anything about it?

He does not provide any clear answers, but surely raises the right questions. And obviously he really is a "coole Sau", what makes this a really good watch. You can still get it on the ESAD site. I still have to look into the other speaks there.