The Designers Accord
Core77 has partnered with the Designers
Accord to encourage the creative community
to adopt more sustainable design practices and to share knowledge toward
creating positive change. As part of this partnership, design firms will
be able to adopt the Designers Accord at Core77's Design Directory,
and have their adoption displayed in their public profile and in design
firm search results.
About The Designers Accord (www.designersaccord.org)
The Designers Accord is a coalition of designers, educators, researchers,
engineers, business consultants, and corporations, who are working together
to create positive environmental and social impact.
The Designers Accord creates a knowledge-sharing network throughout the
global creative community to share best practices and help accelerate adoption
of sustainability principles. This initiative started as a call to arms
for designers to engage in the environmental movement with optimism and
creativity. We believe it is our obligation to use our knowledge, experience,
and reach to positively influence what we design and consume.
We ask all adopters, globally, to proactively engage in a dialogue about
environmental impact with each and every client and customer, and to
integrate sustainable alternatives in our work. By collectively committing
to having this conversation, we will compel businesses to evaluate sustainability
as a key vector in decision-making for their products and services.
We promote openly sharing knowledge and experience around green design
and sustainability. We believe building environmental intelligence should
be a collective exercise. For this cause, we advocate inverting the traditional
model of competition, and encourage pooling knowledge so that all may
benefit and build on marketable and sustainable solutions. We believe
this will lead to greater innovation.
The Designers Accord is for all designers – interaction, digital,
industrial, graphic, advertising, architecture, interior – and those
involved in the design industry, including engineers, business consultants,
researchers, marketers, corporations, and educational institutions. Any
designer, consultancy, or organization creating consequence at scale should
join. There are tens of thousands of members of the creative community
involved in the Designers Accord, representing two dozen countries, and each design discipline. The IDSA and the AIGA endorse the Designers Accord. The Designers Accord is a not-for-profit organization.
On behalf of my firm I'm ready to adopt the Designers Accord now.
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