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Continuing our coverage of last weekend's Design as Social Agent conference at the ICA, today we summarize "Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State," a talk given by Steven Heller based on his book of the same name, and the culminating talk "Something Borrowed, Something True," which explored issues of appropriation in art.

The Design as Social Agent conference yesterday at the ICA addressed the role of art and design in myriad situations, from Shepard Fairey’s Hope poster to Adolf Hitler’s reappropriation of the once-inspirational swastika for anti-Semitic purposes. The day raised more questions than it answered, but brought up several good points directly related to how design affects our everday lives—for better or for worse.

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