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In the year 2025, we, the designers of the world, acknowledge our historical responsibility.
Our designs have contributed to the destruction of the world. We have fueled anxiety, longing, and the pervasive sense of not being enough.
We have filled lives and landscapes with unnecessary and harmful objects and forms, and we have been partners to businesses that profit from fear and dissatisfaction.
From this day forward, we commit to no longer designing anything that harms people or the planet. Let this declaration mark our historical commitment to a new era in design.
Join as an Official Member of Design Responsibility™ and commit to ethical design. For €70, get your digital certificate and help judge the world’s top 100 brands with VAND’s global jury.
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Official Members of the Design Responsibility™ Movement are invited to join the VAND International Jury. This jury will soon evaluate how the world’s Top 100 Brands design and take responsibility. To judge with integrity, one must first commit to it. The movement isn’t just a title it’s your entry point to shaping global standards in design.
What is Official Member ofDesign Responsibility™?
By joining the Official Member of Design Responsibility™, designers demonstrate their dedication to upholding integrity, ethics, and excellence in their practice. The Design Responsibility™ is a sign for professional designers, signifying their commitment to ethical and professional standards.
Why Official Member ofDesign Responsibility™?
1. Professional Reputation
Your consistent commitment to competence and ethics will build a strong professional reputation in the design industry.
2. Client Trust & Premium Rates
Ethical designers attract better clients and higher rates.
3. Featured in Design Responsibility Book
Your work will be featured in an international design book.
4. Exclusive European Events
Join private design events and exhibitions in Europe.
As technology advances and connectivity grows, the human experience becomes more intricate and occasionally overwhelming. Designers wield the ability to ease this burden by crafting designs that provide solace rather than exacerbating anxieties. By pledging to create designs that foster tranquility and harmony, designers commit to a noble cause: reducing the emotional toll that today's world can exact on its in habitants. The movement acknowledges that design can be a balm for the restless soul, offering respite from the clamor of a frenzied world.
Design in a
Gentle Approach
Designs often become showy in the competition to engage, losing sight of the gentleness that simplicity can offer. The Design Responsibility Movement under scores the importance of embracing humility and gentleness in design.
By refraining from creating artifacts that dazzle but lack substance, designers pledge to honor the essence of design – the ability to communicate humanity, resonate reality, and serve a genuine purpose. This movement champions the idea that designers must be committed to design gentleness as a significant criterion in design.
Designers are responsible for creating experiences that resonate with authenticity and integrity. The Design Responsibility recognizes this responsibility and challenges designers to rise above aesthetics. By committing to prioritize the quietness of individuals and society over fleeting gains, designers align themselves with a greater purpose: to contribute positively to the collective human experience. The Movement heralds a design renaissance where ethical considerations and societal impact guide creative choices.
The Design Responsibility transcends individual actions and calls for a collective movement. It beckons designers from all corners of the globe to unite in their dedication to a design philosophy that champions compassion, empathy, and holistic well-being. By Become an Official Member, designers join a community committed to using their talents for the betterment of humanity. This unity has the potential to ripple through the design world, influencing trends, sparking conversations, and inspiring anew era of purpose-driven creativity.
The movement is open to all designers, thinkers, creators, makers, who believe design should serve more than commerce.
By joining, you stand for design that respects people, time, attention, and the planet.
Instant and free sign-up
1. Receive a welcome post on social media
2. Featured as a dot on the Global Designer Map
3. Participate in community polls, campaigns, and surveys
4. Help amplify the movement around the world
Forever
For those who want to make their commitment official.
1. Receive an official Certificate
2. Eligible to apply as a judge
3. Your name appears on the Certified Member Page
4. Receive early access to calls for design reviews, awards, and exhibitions
Per Year
For design studios, collectives, or company teams.
1. Everything in the Certified Member plan
2. One certificate for your team and a public listing
3. Access to team-level opportunities in awards and reviews
4. Apply as team judges or co-hosts for events and exhibitions
Per Year