What Emerging Designers Actually Need is access to real development work. Our Design Development Program —a time-based system that allows designers to develop their work using real production standards, without guessing their way through the process.

Many vegan materials are still petroleum-based. Plastic, polyurethane, synthetics designed to mimic leather… They may spare animals, but they don’t disappear when we’re done with them. They shed. They persist. They accumulate.