Quote of the week: Design Tells You About Possibility

Valerie Casey, designer, in Fast Company, on social responsibility:

"We don't have an economic problem, we don't have an ecological problem, we have a design problem. The environmentalists tell us this problem is about limits. But design tells you about possibility."

Check out the Designers Accord, between 100,000+ designers and firms, design students and corporations, and endorsed by the 22,000 member-strong AIGA (professional designers' association).


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.

Rock on!