Jan 30, 2025

What is an In-house Designer’s Social Responsibility?

Joshua Duchesne

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When it comes to representation and diversity within the work designers create, what power do we have to enforce, establish or break thoughtless/thoughtful ideas of people? Is it our job to address greater concerns via our work? Join Joshua as explains how you can red flag concerns you may have in briefs or directions and offers tools to help make diversity a frictionless part of the design process. He’ll also help you learn how to navigate through the thought, “I don’t know what I don’t know,” and he’ll show why it’s so important to lead from the bottom up.

Joshua Duchesne

Joshua is an Associate Creative Director with a decade of experience specializing in identities, campaigns and strategy. Joshua has worked with clients of all sizes and industries including Oxford Properties, Toronto Pearson Airport and his own magazine, which earned an international readership and nationwide distribution. Joshua’s background and early career is defined by contemporary art, curatorial studies and luxury interiors which, as a designer, emphasized to him the importance of creative concepts and zooming out. As a creative director Joshua strongly believes in the support and education of his peers and played a lead role in establishing a drop-in mentorship program for students and early career creatives through his current studio, Made by Emblem. He has also been an active participant in Black and BIPOC initiatives throughout his career.