Our annual ‘Responsible Designers’ feature, sponsored by DOMTAR, recognizes creative professionals embracing responsibility as to how, when, why and for whom they work — using design principles to make the world a better place for people and nature.
Tag: Socially Responsible
Jiayan He + Shangning Wang
Shangning Wang and Jiayan He are socially responsible designers who focus on Sustainable Development Goals and work within United Nations organizations.
Holly Wheeler
Holly Wheeler is an experienced Creative Director and Designer specializing in strategic creativity across print, digital, environmental, and experiential design.
Alberto Rigau
Alberto Rigau was born and raised in Puerto Rico and is a seasoned designer based in San Juan.
Mikell Fine Iles
Mikell is an award-winning design director exploring where technology and art converge, currently serving as Executive Design Director at Hook.
Jack Watson
Jack Watson has had a 15 year career centered around education as a multidisciplinary designer.
Diana Rose Smith
Diana Rose Smith leads an extremely talented pair of designers and collaborate with a full team of creative minds.
Colleen Gratzer
Colleen Gratzer has been in the design industry for almost 30 years – Gratzer Graphics provides design and accessibility services to clients.
Hilary Lentini
Lentini Design & Marketing, Inc., (LDM) founded in 1990, is a WBENC-certified woman-owned branding and marketing firm based in Los Angeles.
Jasmine Raziuddin
Jasmine Raziuddin is a program manager in the Creative Communications department at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Neeta Verma
Neeta Verma is a designer, researcher, and educator within the evolving discipline of visual communication design.
Richard A. Hooper
Richard Hooper has served as Vice President of Marketing and Communications for the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership (PDP) for the past five years.
Roanne Adams
Entrepreneur and visionary, Roanne Adams is the founder and Chief Creative Director of RoAndCo Studio.
Rochelle Ratkaj Moser
Rochelle has always held steadfast to her mission: change the world with the power of design.
Sai Shruthi Chivukula + Colin M. Gray
Colin M. Gray and Sai Shruthi Chivukula are leaders in the field of Human-Computer Interaction and design ethics.
Kaitlyn Barclay + Willow Hill
At Scout Lab, co-founders Willow Hill and Kaitlyn Barclay lead a purpose-driven agency with a focus on human and planetary health.
Nick Adam, John Pobojewski + Bud Rodecker
Span specializes in crossing the boundaries of communication design and is driven by collaboration, experimentation, and a commitment to making our work socially conscious.
Summer Coleman
Summer has cultivated a strong track record of collaborating with a wide range of organizations and businesses across the city of Chicago.
Ashley Argese
Ashley Argese is an award-winning designer and marketing professional.
Rachel B. Van Gorden
Rachel B. Van Gorden is an artist and designer born and raised in Greenville SC.
Johnny Selman
Johnny Selman, founder and Executive Creative Director at Selman, leads a talented team of designers and brand thinkers.
Michelle Garside + Alison Leipzig
Soul Camp Creative is a Sacred Strategy House dedicated to fostering ideas that change the world.
Danielle Kauffman
Danielle Kauffman works for TPD, an ENR 500 Top Design Firm that delivers transportation engineering projects throughout the eastern United States.
Ting Zhou
Ting Zhou is a mother, designer, and educator, currently serving as an assistant professor of Digital Media Design at the University of Connecticut.
Alex Paine
Alex Paine is a partner in brand strategy at Lippincott, a global brand consultancy, based in the London office.
Lidia Varesco Racoma
Lidia Varesco Racoma of Lidia Varesco Design in Chicago empowers organizations and entrepreneurs to make a change through strategic branding and marketing design.
People People
People People is a Seattle-based, woman-owned branding and interactive firm specializing in brand thinking, brand identity, websites, print, and packaging design since 1998.
2023 GDUSA Responsible Designers
Each year, GDUSA highlights creative and thought leaders who use design principles, talents and skills to help make the world a better and more sustainable place as they see it. DOMTAR is the exclusive sponsor.
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Shane Lukas
Shane Lukas founded A Great Idea as a vessel to share and grow creative skills and provide design support for organizations
Christina Baute
Christina Baute’s past 15 years have been in the marketing and communications department at the Environmental Defense Fund
Victor Ng
Victor Ng is a designer, educator, and community organizer based in Brooklyn, New York
Gail Rodriguez
Gail savors the passion inside organizations who advocate for improving lives and seeing change in communities
Joshua Vaughan
Joshua Vaughan is a graphic designer/creative at Blue Barn Design Co., with 16 years of design experience
Sarah Williams
Outside of running an agency, Sarah’s other passion is running in the woods.
Ted Bluey
Ted designs and builds great brands as Head of Design at B/H.
Terrence Moline
Terrence Moline has always been a curious kid from New Orleans looking to connect with more creatives like himself
Krystal Pratt
Krystal Pratt is an award-winning designer and creative director with over 16-years of experience in editorial design
Andrei Dominiq
Andrei Dominiq’s creative practice, James Junk, has fused his design powers with brands that lead with openness and social impact
Terresa Moses
Terresa Moses is a proud Black queer woman dedicated to the liberation of Black and brown people through art and design