Zoot is proud to announce that it has joined The Designers Accord. The Designers Accord is a global coalition of designers, educators, and business leaders, working together to create positive environmental and social impact. For those of you who are in the vicinity of San Fransisco around October 23 and 24, 2009, The Designer’s Accord are holding a Global Summit on Design Education and Sustainability.
Here follows the guidelines we have committed to, in order to be eligible to join:
Guidelines for Design Firm Adopters:
Publicly declare participation in the Designers Accord.
Initiate a dialogue about environmental and social impact and sustainable alternatives with each and every client. Rework client contracts to favor environmentally and socially responsible design and work processes. Provide strategic and material alternatives for sustainable design.
Undertake a program to educate your teams about sustainability and sustainable design.
Consider your ethical footprint. Understand the environmental impact of your firm, and work to measure, manage, and reduce it on an annual basis.
Advance the understanding of environmental and social issues from a design perspective by actively contributing to the communal knowledge base for sustainable design.
Ink Posters—a Zoot/Joff & Ollie project—has launched its very own web shop. And to mark this occasion we have landed a write-up in the May edition of Wallpaper Magazine. Click here, or on the images below to visit Ink’s website.
In connection with the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Institute of Industrial Design (IDE) the book ‘Shaping Futures’ has been published. The book discusses the past, present and future of industry design, presenting 35 student projects that show the breadth and depth of a developing design discipline. Una Bjerkan Heimstad’s diploma project, ‘Product as a service’ (2008) has been included in this book. Her diploma explored the developing discipline of service design. It sought to challenge and feed our everyday habits with new services that encourage change, develop community and help to reduce our impact on the environment.
Good design adds value of some kind, gives meaning, and, not incidentally, can be sheer pleasure to behold; it respects the viewer’s sensibilities and rewards the entrepreneur.
…and more gems like it check out this comprehensive Paul Rand site.
“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”
Is it possible to compress the definition of design into six minutes? Well, The Design Council have made a good go of it. Take a look at this well put together film created by Lightweight Media.
Zoot is a strategic design office working on communication, interaction and service design projects. Our approach is holistic, one that builds upon an understanding of our customers needs and challenges. We call it design thinking.
