Resources
The following are various resources relating to the overall concept of designing for social good and design for non-profits and causes. This is an ongoing list which will be updated.
Books
- Change By Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
by Tim Brown
- Do Good Design: How Design Can Change Our World
by David B. Berman
- Design For The Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
by Victor Papanak
- Common Interest: Documents
by Emmi Salonen
- Designing For The Greater Good
by Peleg Top and Jonathan Cleveland
- Design For The Other 90%
by Cynthia E. Smith
- Massive Change
by Bruce Mau
- Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Your World
by Warren Berger
- For a Good Cause
by Cactus Disseny
- Branding for Nonprofits: Developing Identity with Integrity
by DK Holland
- Creating the Perfect Design Brief: How to Manage Design for Stragegic Advantage
by Peter L. Phillips
- Branding for Success!
by Larry Checco
- Piloting Pro Bono by Anthony Taaffe
Articles
- “Rescuing the Poor, by Design” New York Times
- “Design Thinking for Social Change” Design Edge Magazine
- “Debate: Is Cause Related Marketing Worth it?” MatthewAlberto.com
- “A Framework for Sustainable Marketing” Ross Gordon et al.
- “Doing Well by Doing Good”: The Grand Illusion by Aneel Karnani
- “Good marketing for good causes” by Elefint Designs
- “The Marketization of Poverty” by Anke Schwittay
- “Design for the Public Good” by Rebecca Bedrossian, Communication Arts
- “Why Good Causes Need Great Design” by Matt Scharpnick, Stanford Social Innovation Review
- “Guns, Butter and Ballots. Citizens take charge by designing for better government” by John Emerson, Communication Arts
- “Cause and Effect: Why now, more than ever, the nonprofit world needs design and vice versa” by DK Holland, Communication Arts
