A designer-friendly guide to sustainability.
This book rounds up all the key ideas for you, with lots of pictures. What do we want to sustain, and what does it mean for design? Short chapters make you think bigger. You'll never look at your work the same way again.

Are you a design practitioner, critic, historian, or observer? You are the audience for this book. Explore the sections below to read reviews and find out more.

about the book
synopsis, reviews, translations, press materials,

teaching sustainable design
dozens of design briefs and exercises to help you teach with The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability. Global discussion list on teaching sustainable design learn more.

emerging issues
design and sustainable consumption, designactivism, open source design, social innovation and social entrepreneurship

resources
updates, expanded references, web links and articles such as: "10 ways to work in sustainable design" and "central debates of sustainable design."

author/events
contact details, upcoming events, publications and teaching experience

the book's cover
feature films have "director's cuts" and in my case, there are two "author's cuts" for the cover of the book