Design for Good
for sustainable innovation
Principles
When you make something, you want it to be successful, right? Still, sometimes you worry about the impact of your success on the environment, the conditions of employees in production and about the resources that are becoming scarce, don‘t you? You can make a change! You can apply sustainable innovation successfully in any organization, in any product and any service. It just takes some common sense and commitment, creativity and shared goals. You can combine sustainability and innovation to create responsible success. Focus forward with Design for Good!
Services
Do you want to turn your good ambitions into tangible products, packaging and services that are good, do well and do good? Design for Good offers ideation, design consultancy, innovation coaching, social business modelling and licensing support. Design for Good is always a fresh resource of creativity and inspiration. Founder Jop Timmers created a unique development process (RE-act) of 7 stepping stones: Rethink, Refocus, Reconnect, Redesign, Reproduce, Retell and finally Retail.
Projects
Looking at what is needed tomorrow and what is possible today, Design for Good develops innovative yet realistic ideas, concepts and products that reconnect businesses to their core competence: solving problems for the end-user. End-users are involved in the development by using co-creation and open innovation processes, connecting your business to your target market. An essential goal is to make sure that the success of your innovations does not harm the earth with its inhabitants and instead creates a substantial value for both the end-user and the entire production chain.
Recent Project
Clean and Go, cleaning paint brushes eco-friendly
The eco-friendly alternative for cleaning and storing paint brushes. Project : Developing a sytem to clean and store paint brushes. For : Hildering Innovations' brand Go!Paint Role : ...
Latest Blogposts
Household products key to innovation successes in BOP
Designing and selling products for consumers at the bottom of the pyramid has many challenges. Besides the severe affordability constraints, innovations need to be appropriate for the target markets. Basing solutions and technologies around household items can be one method [..]
Thai Glass House – clever solutions from Thailand, part 3
In areas where resources are low and technology is scarce, people are often more resourceful than in highly industrialized and ‘developed’ areas. We can learn a lot from these low-cost, simple, effective and often very sustainable solutions. In Europe most [..]
More on Palomino
Remember that small village at the coast of Colombia where students and inhabitants are working together to create a better future by making sustainable buildings, researching, documenting and sharing old habits and customs to prevent them from being lost forever [..]
