Design Professionals of Canada
The Design Professionals of Canada is committed to leading, supporting, and advancing professional design communications in Canada.
CDP™ Certified is the attained standard and signifier licensed to individuals whose services have met a rigorous and professional standard of work and who play a leadership role in the design communications industry.
I have been certified since 2007. Since then I joined the National Sustainability Committee and became the chair with the goal to inspire creative professionals to step up and use their skills and influence to magnify positive change while reducing negative impacts.
First Things First
Back in 1999, a friend shared the Adbusters’ First thing First manifesto with me. With it’s call for meaningful design while questioning the role of designers in society, it was an eye-opener for me, having a direct impact on how I wanted to use my newly acquired design skills. An original manifesto had be published in 1964, and there have been a few reboots since.
The 2020 manifesto wants to start a conversation among the design community on how design plays a role within the context of our climate crisis. I immediately joined as a signatory!
Pledge 1%
Pledge 1% is a global movement that encourages and empowers companies of all sizes and stages to donate 1% of their staff time, product, profit, and/or equity to any charity of their choosing.
By joining Pledge 1%, I have set my intent to continually give back to my community. Currently I am donating my time work to the West Kootenay Climate Hub.
Clean Creatives
Clean Creatives is a movement of communications, design, advertisers, PR professionals, and their clients who are cutting ties with fossil fuels… because doing any campaigns for a fossil fuel client undoes all of an agency’s sustainability gains.
I have taken the Clean Creatives pledge to show I’m committed to a future for the creative industry that doesn’t include promoting pollution.
