The Designers Accord

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. Find out how to adopt.

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:

- 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 real-world and online network to enable conversation about opportunities and challenges in creating sustainable products, services, and businesses.

Organizational Structure

The Designers Accord is a not-for-profit, 501(C)(3) organization.

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