design with meaning

The topic for this month's Final Friday (an informal company get together on the last Friday of each month) was "design with meaning". This philosophy is at the centre of all our work, and as a way of exploring it we each brought in an example of a company or brand that we personally felt embodied design with/without meaning and shared it with everyone else. Here's a run down of who chose what and why (as a generally positive bunch, most or our examples are "with meaning" apart from the last two shown below)...