• Radical Care: Design x Health Skyside Panel with Blumline

    A cultural shift is underway and it’s shaking up healthcare. Join Blumline for a skyside panel conversation on health, agency, access, and designing with and for this unique space. We’ll discuss emerging behaviors, needs, and the challenges, experiments, and lessons our panelists have uncovered in practicing health-centered design. Come early for aperitivo, a beautiful and

    Jam Session by frog Design: Co-Creating a Code of Ethics in AI & Other Rising Technologies

    During this 90-minute session, we want to bring creatives, technologists and forward-thinkers together to co-create a code of ethics around the increasingly ubiquitous, and intelligent technologies that are making their way into our day to day worlds. At this pivotal moment, the rise of ChatGPT and other AI-powered products and services have illuminated countless questions

    Design Rocks! Music as Design Inspiration

    As designers, we’re constantly asked to create, but where does creativity come from? How can we spark new and more innovative ideas? What even IS inspiration? Let’s explore these questions together in an interdisciplinary chat about inspiration through the lens of music. With the intention to refresh your creative spirit and enliven your imagination, we’re

    Risky Business: Climate Change, Design, and Avoiding Unforeseen Consequences

    Risky Business: Climate Change, Design, and Avoiding Unforeseen Consequences Throughout human history, new tools and technologies have simultaneously moved us forward as a society and set us back with unforeseen consequences. Here in the Bay Area, there is a common desire to disrupt, move fast, and break things, but that approach is not valid for

    Adobe: Creating Gen AI Tools with and for Designers

    Join members of the Adobe Design and Adobe Design Research & Strategy teams for a very special event for a very special event, in conversation with local designers about the design process behind Adobe’s Gen AI tools. Panelists will discuss how they’re currently using AI in their design workflows, touch upon what’s ahead, and talk

    Us vs. Them

    Join PA San Francisco (formerly Astro Studios) at SF Design Week for a thought-provoking event that explores the intersection of AI technology and design. Attendees will experience a competition between human designers and AI tools, and explore a showcase of AI technology and interactive events that demonstrate the latest trends in design. Refreshments and swag

    Illustrating the picture book

    Virtual Event
    Illustrating a picture book from script to final pages – with focus on character design, composition and page design — presentation followed by Live Q and A.

    Changemakers, with Maria Giudice

    CCA’s Design Division presents a talk & book signing by Maria Giudice Becoming a Changemaker by Leading with Design Design leaders have evolved from being responsible for executing design concepts to having a crucial role in driving change across organizations. This is welcome progress, but with greater responsibility comes new challenges, especially when it comes

    Creativity Explored – Open Studio

    Creativity Explored (1983–2023) is a studio-based collective in San Francisco that partners with people with developmental disabilities to celebrate and nurture the creative potential in all of us. Founded in 1983 by a psychologist and an artist, CE has facilitated the careers of hundreds of neurodiverse artists and serves as a model in the field

    Manifesting A Future In Design

    What happens when your thoughts become a reality? Manifesting is a tool used daily by designers in their work as they weave client emotions into unique concepts. An inspired idea can become a beautiful space realized from specific intentions. Alicia Cheung and Eva Bradley, co-founders of Studio Heimat, along with Tyson Lee, creative director and