PROUDLY
Made in Europe.
We partner with local suppliers in Germany and Austria who share our commitment to finding the paths of least pollution. Map by Free Vector Maps
The goals that guide us:
Take our pedagogical responsibilities seriously.
Spotlight queer and trans* artists.
Choose suppliers who use renewable energy.
Keep our supply chain open, local, and certified.
Our Design Manifesto
Follow the campsite rule and "tell it like it is".
You're smart enough to decide what's "sustainable" and we'd rather show than tell. Each product's page gives its CO2e footprint. We have nothing to hide.
We also open-source our entire supply chain. We know how hard it is to design waste out of a product's supply chain, and we want other producers to benefit from what we've learned and who we recommend.
Circular design should not be a luxury.
Our products are priced to be as accessible as possible while respecting the value of our artists, team, suppliers, and retailers.
We're happy to pay higher unit costs to partners who work within planetary means and even happier to see you enjoy our decks.
Other small publishers and creators are not competitors, they're potential partners.
There's room for all of us. Are you a fellow small business or creator trying to publish your work? Are you a publishing house looking to enter the EU? Please reach out, we'd love to collaborate with you.
Make the games we'll play in Queer Paradise.
We're here to spotlight queer creators and tell stories of queer joy for ourselves and the world.
We'd rather show than tell.
Our certifications
Photo Credit Gugler GmbH / Jürgen Thoma
Cradle to Cradle (C2C)
Products with the C2C label meet the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute’s Silver standards on material health, product circularity, clean air and climate protection, water and soil stewardship, and social fairness.
Greenprint / Print4Climate
CO2 is emitted from production of the paper, plates, and inks, the printing itself, and the delivery from our supplier in Austria to our warehouse in Berlin. They offset 110% of these emissions via climate protection measures onsite and reforestation projects in the Global South.
The Austrian Ecolabel for Products
Our products with this label were made in an energy-plus building using residue-free ink that will completely and harmlessly compost at their eventual end-of-life. These practices have earned our printer the Austrian Federal Ministry of Environment’s Ecolabel.
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
The FSC label designates paper from responsibly managed forests.
Green Dot
Long story short: producers of goods pay for the packaging waste they introduce into each market. The Green Dot is one of the dual use systems we license our packaging through, fulfilling our producer-responsibility obligations.
Watch our coloring books get printed:
Our Berlin Coloring Books are printed Cradle to Cradle ceritified by Gugler Kommunikationshaus in Melk, Austria. Each book gets printed, folded, cut, organised together, stapled, and finally boxed. An expert technician checks for quality and recalibrates as needed at every stage! We’re proud to print locally and choose partners who take this much care and attention to detail.
How long would one tree need to reabsorb the CO2e emitted by our games?
We reduce emissions first: through local production, renewable-energy suppliers, and certified materials.
For the footprint that remains, we support:
- climate protection measures in Europe, reforestation projects in the Global South
- a portfolio approach to carbon removal, nature restoration, and nature protection via Milkywire, and
- ocean protection and reforestation projects via ClimatePartner.
Below is a rough illustration of how many years a single tree would need to reabsorb the CO₂ emitted from each product's production, using data from Encon.
Suggestions for improvement?
"Open-source" also means listening to ideas and critiques. If you know how we can push our waste even lower - or better yet, if you offer zero-waste printing and packaging, please reach out! We'd love to hear from you.