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The Designers Accord is made up of over 100,000 members of the creative community, representing 100 countries, and each design discipline.

 

Adopting the Designers Accord provides access to a community of peers that shares methodologies, resources, and experiences around environmental and social issues in design. Any designer, consultancy, or organization creating consequence at scale should join. 

Vision

The vision of the Designers Accord is to integrate the principles of sustainable design into all practice and production. Our mission is to catalyze innovation throughout the creative community by collectively building our intelligence around sustainability.

Mission

We advocate inverting the traditional model of competition, and encourage sharing best practices so we can innovate more efficiently. We will:

- Provide collective and individual ways for designers to take action.

- Ask all adopters to engage in conversation about social and environmental impact with every client and customer, and integrate sustainable alternatives in their work.

- Create a web platform to enable the conversation about opportunities and challenges associated with creating products and services that make positive social and environmental impact.

Organizational Structure

The Designers Accord is a not-for-profit, 501(C)(3) tax-exempt organization, which is directed by a seven member Advisory Board.

 

AIGA, Cumulus, and the IDSA endorse the Designers Accord.

 

 

The goal of the Designers Accord is to create positive impact. There are three ways to join:

 

Adopter (design firms, corporations, educational institutions)
An organized group within the creative community who pledge to work through the guidelines.

Supporter (artists, freelance designers, students)
An individual who is making the guidelines relevant to their personal practice. Like adopters, we expect supporters to evangelize the movement within their communities.

Endorser (organizations)
Organization that adds awareness to the cause, and can provide infrastructure for education and outreach programs (like AIGA and IDSA).

 

 

 

Design Firm Adopters

A full list of design firm adopters can be viewed via DesignDirectory.com

 

 

Wiki

Please visit our wiki for resources, case studies, and topics related to sustainable design practices: designersaccord.org/wiki

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

On Thursday, April 30 in San Francisco, from 6-9 pm, the California College of Arts will host an event for design educators and the Designers Accord educational adopters. The roundtable discussion will provide a casual environment for educators to share ideas for implementing sustainability into design curricula. For more information or to rsvp, please email emily@designersaccord.org. More information on the Designers Accord Educational Adopters Summit events and programming.

 

 

DESIGNERS ACCORD EVENTS FOR DESIGNERS and DESIGN FIRM ADOPTERS:

On Thursday, April 23 in Philadelphia, from 6-9 pm, bresslergroup will host our next Town Hall meeting. Design firm and corporate adopters, as well as other interested members of the design community, are invited to attend, present their best practices, and network. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, if you would like to present, or to RSVP, please email Elysa Soffer: ess [at] bresslergroup.com

 

On Thursday, May 7 in San Francisco, from 6-8:30 pm, Lunar will host a Town Hall for the Bay Area Designers Accord community. For more information, if you would like to present, or to RSVP, please email Vanessa Jespersen-Wheat: vanessa@lunar.com

 

On Thursday, May 14 in Boston, from 6-9pm, Continuum will host a Town Hall in their office. For more information, if you would like to present, or to RSVP, please email event@dcontinuum.com