Using
  • ISO59040
  • ISO14067
  • ISO14040
to Become an Award-Winning Product Designer

Established in 2017, Design Conformity has been working with designers and manufacturers to introduce, educate and build on circular design principles and practice. Or platform offers in-depth courses, practical guides and immersive workshops to help you build within your own sustainability journey.

All of our resources are built to align with the most up to date ISO standards within the industry, ensuring you're building skills that reach the highest global benchmarks. Whether you're a student, professional, or industry-leader; we are here to provide you the tools you need to be a circular designer.

Guides

Discover our expertly crafted guides on Materials, Electronics, and Circular Design - essential resources designed to empower architects, manufacturers, designers and suppliers to create with purpose.

Comprehensive tools to support designers, architects, manufacturers and suppliers to make purposeful and informed design choices.

Courses

Discover our Circular Design course, highlighting the importance of designing-in sustainability for designers, suppliers & manufacturers. Learn how ISO59040 and ISO14067 can guide you in reporting and reducing the embodied carbon of your products.

Workshops

Join our Materials & Products specialist Olivia for an immersive workshop designed to grow material knowledge and literacy.

Explore new materials, their impacts, and how the application and use of different materials can reduce the carbon footprint of products.

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What is the importance of Circular Design?

Circular design rethinks the way we approach the design, use, and disposal of products. Instead of following the traditional 'take-make-dispose' approach, circular design focuses on keeping materials in use for as long as possible; designing with repair, reuse and recycling in mind from the very start.

Our Courses & Guides offer the opportunity to utilise experience gathered from some of Europe's leading furniture designers and manufacturers.

With an increasing emphasis on companies to improve and prove their carbon output, it is becoming more important for there to be education available to support this.

All aspects of design should consider a sustainable element to them.  But translating this to designing sustainably and transparently in industry can be a complicated ballpark.

We use a circular knowledge practice, taking industry knowledge and passing it down to future industry leaders. We look at not just the design process, but how this works in practice, and what happens aftward - using a circular design standard that is industry-focused, industry-led, and industry-assessed.

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Circular Design Course

Lead by

Katie Furmston

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  • Highlights the importance of designing-in sustainability.
  • Introduces you to the methods of circular design.
  • Guides you through where to utilise circular design principles throughout the design process.
  • Illustrates the benefits of reuse as a method of creating a 2nd life in products and materials.
  • Guides you through how to conduct carbon calculations, and calculating carbon reductions.

Materials Workshops

Lead by

Olivia Aspinal

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  • Understand where materials come from, what they are made of, and how this effects their life cycles.
  • Introduces you to the different options for quantifying material choices.
  • Gain confidence in material specification and justification.
  • Grow your teams knowledge and material literacy.
  • Understand how the application and use of different materials can reduce the carbon footprint of products.
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This guide acts as a tool to support designers, architects, manufacturers and suppliers on the process of how to design and manufacture products in a way that considers sustainability from the beginning through use and end of life.

Download our Circular Design Certificate Guide

Our Electrical Guide is designed to support designers & manufacturers in the production of electrified products, the importance of electrical efficiency in sustainable design, and the areas affected by electrical application throughout the design process.

Download our Electrical Design Guide

Our Materials Guide is a design tool aimed at helping designers and manufacturers make informed decisions about the materials they are specifying during the design process.

Download our Materials Guide

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Our Latest Blogs

ISO59040: A Step Towards Digital Product Passports for Furniture Manufacturers and Consumers

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August 8, 2025
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“The world population consumes over 100 billion tonnes of material every year, with over 90% of these materials being extracted, used, and …

Corporate Strategies and Regulatory Envrionments in Carbon Markets

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March 31, 2025
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Corporate Attitudes Towards Carbon Credits (2024-2025) General Trends In recent years, corporate attitudes towards carbon credits have experienced a significant shift, particularly …

Understanding Carbon Credits: Fundamentals & Project Types

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March 31, 2025
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Introduction to Carbon Credits In recent years, the urgency to tackle global climate change has intensified, with international consensus increasingly focused on …

An Interview with Deadgood (deadgood x design conformity)

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March 31, 2025
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Elliot Brook & Dan Ziglam of deadgood; are interviewed by design conformity, discussing their experience with the team, platform, and collaboration. What …