Welcome to our strict no-villains policy. Sorry villains, no soup for you.

This policy outlines our criteria for determining whether a prospective client, partner, or organisation qualifies as a non-villain. If you feel that you are a reformed villain, we are open to second chances, so you’re welcome to get in touch.

Sidenote

We’d like to point out that we’re designers. We’re not bureaucrats. We don’t normally write pompous polices. In fact, neither one of us has ever written one before (as you’re about to discover)

However, Humanosity leans heavily towards work that has a positive impact on the world. With that in mind, we needed a guide to help steer us clear of the people who prefer making a negative one. We don’t want to be the baddies.

Now - onwards to the policy.

Our no-villains policy is strict. If you are a practising villain please do not contact us. If you have to ask yourself if you are a villain before contacting us, you are a villain.

For us, villain territory starts with work that:

  • Has no social value

  • Has a negative effect on the planet

  • Discourages community building

  • Runs on an extractive business model

TL;DR

Although we neither expect, nor wish, that everyone we work with thinks like us, as long as you’re making a positive impact, we’re pretty keen to work with clients of all shapes and sizes. You can view our values here.

If you are creating and providing products, services or initiatives that have a favourable effect on the world we would love to work with you. Plenty of soup for you.

The following villains are what we call ‘Eccentric Villains’. Sometimes they have a heart of gold underneath, so we’ll entertain them out of curiosity.

  • Owns a volcanic lair or underwater base

  • Wears a cloak in their place of business

  • Resides on an island surrounded by antique laser guns

  • Takes long pauses before saying “excellent”

  • Practices evil laugh using their front facing camera

  • Strokes a white cat exclusively for dramatic effect

  • Cackles when unveiling world-overthrow plans

  • Has “eccentric villain” listed as a Linkedin endorsement

  • Sits on a large swively armchair that swivels. Dramatically, Swively. Awkwardly - You know the type.

  • Anyone who describes themselves as a mastermind, desperado or thought leader.

While our policy is playful - the values behind it are not.We like working with decent people on decent things.