• Bould Design 30th Anniversary Open Studio

    Bould Design Studio 1135 North Amphlett Blvd, San Mateo, California, United States
    Join us as we celebrate 30 years of innovation at Bould Design! Our open studio event is your chance to meet our team, mix and mingle with other designers while enjoying delicious appetizers and beverages. We look forward to welcoming you! We’re a San Francisco based design studio offering a range of services to hardware

    Social Justice Design Tour: Meet the innovative architects and partners behind the new Restorative Justice Hub in SOMA

    Community Works SF Office at 986 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103 986 Mission St., San Francisco, California, United States
    How can we use space for healing? We invite mission-driven designers and allies to join us at Designing Justice + Designing Spaces’ recently completed restorative justice space for Community Works in SF’s SOMA district to learn about the community-engaged process and innovative partnerships that made it happen! In this volatile time when justice is under

    Sound Memories: A Global Dialogue on Preserving Memory Through Sound

    Swissnex in San Francisco, Pier 17 Swissnex in SF, Pier 17, Suite 800, San Francisco, California, United States
    Swissnex in San Francisco in collaboration with the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich (MfGZ)  presents “Sound Memories” – a hybrid event together with Swissnex in China exploring how  technology can preserve and revive sound-related objects through audio visualization and  design. This artist talk will shed light on new digital approaches to conservation, from  reinterpreting historical sounds

    Atelier Tour and Talk with Diane Dorrans Saeks: ERICA TANOV AND THE ARTISTRY OF CONTEMPORARY TEXTILES

    Erica Tanov Showroom | Atelier Erica Tanov Showroom | Atelier, Berkeley, California, United States
    In an intimate talk moderated by esteemed design writer Diane Dorrans Saeks, guests are invited into the tactile, poetic world of designer Erica Tanov. Celebrating the timeless elegance and personal artistry of Erica’s work, the evening offers a rare opportunity to tour the designer’s studio housed in an 1878 Italianate Victorian, and hear directly from the designer about her

    Multimodal Creativity → Flowing Between Mediums

    Problem Library 1288 15th Ave, San Francisco, California, United States
    Designer, 3D artist, and music producer Danny Jones invites you into the layered, unpredictable world of multimodal creativity. In this talk, he’ll explore how multimodal creatives use AI, cross-disciplinary thinking, and taste to move fluidly between mediums, shaping new ways of working and building worlds that guide how we perceive and feel. Danny’s work focuses

    Formed by Us : A Women in Design SF Showcase

    Gantri Studio 320 10th Street, San Francisco, California, United States
    Women in Design SF (WID) is teaming up with Gantri to host our second annual showcase at SF Design Week 2025! The showcase will exhibit works from women, nonbinary, and gender-expansive designers from around the Bay Area. Each exhibit will respond to the SF Design Week theme of Reform. Through the acts of designing and

    Design Impact. Reimagined

    Box Clever 285 7th Street, San Francisco, California, United States
    In partnership with Box Clever, Design Burger returns to SFDW to present a specially curated event. In a time of uncertainty, we need positive perspectives to help shine an optimistic light on a path forward for our profession and for new businesses looking to make positive change in the world. Hear from Joe Slatter (Design Burger,

    Play Ethic Studio @ The Drawing Room Communal Table

    The Drawing Room Annex 599 Valencia St., San Francisco, California, United States
    Friday nights, The Drawing Room Annex hosts a communal art table in their large gallery on Valencia St. It’s a space to create, connect, learn, and inspire one another. Join Shasta Garcia of Play Ethic Studio to wind down your Friday in this Design Week edition of Communal Table. We’ll play with watercolors, handmade palettes,

    tools for after Opening Reception: Touring Exhibition from Rome

    Italian Cultural Institute @INNOVIT 710 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA, United States
    The exhibition tools for after focuses on innovation within the Italian design culture through a display of objects, images and videos. What will the design and architecture of tomorrow look like? tools for after offers solutions to prevent―or to confront―the scenarios that the Anthropocene age has in store for us. The designer’s task is to envision the future. Envisioning

    Step Into History: A Studio Visit & Surrealist Film Experience for SF Design Week

    CIAO ART COLLECTIVE 506 BROADWAY, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, United States
    JOIN US FOR AN EXCLUSIVE SF DESIGN WEEK EVENT WHERE ART, HISTORY, AND CINEMA CONVERGE IN A ONE-OF-A-KIND ART SPACE VISIT. THIS HISTORIC SPACE, ONCE A LEGENDARY NIGHTCLUB FROM THE 1930S TO 1999, NOW SERVES AS A CREATIVE HUB SHOWCASING LOCAL SAN FRANCISCO ARTISTS AND A CURATED COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL OUTFITS FROM THE CLUB’S FORMER