San Francisco Design Week

(REGISTRATION ENDS FRIDAY 5/31) Beyond the Sparkles: Tips on building a “boring” product equity practice with Adobe
2024-06-03 16:00 - 17:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | Adobe, 601 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
REGISTRATION ENDS FRIDAY 5/31 so we can send the list to security at Adobe!
Developing a product equity and inclusion practice is often an effort that attracts many passionate volunteers, yet few people who can dedicate themselves full-time to the work. Because of that, there can be pressure to create shiny, quick wins that lead to practitioner burnout and miss the mark with communities we strive to serve.

In this session, Es Braziel, Staff Experience Researcher, Product Equity, Adobe, will illustrate what it means to do product equity work with cross-functional teams and drive a sustainable practice. The session will include small group discussions, where attendees will be invited to reflect on learnings with those around them.

Doors at 4pm
Presentation from 4:15-4:45
Mixer 4:45-5:15
Want to add on the Adobe Create Now event starting at 5:30pm? See below!!!

Attendees will be treated to food, drink, and swag and are welcome to stay for the Adobe Create Now event directly after Beyond the Sparkles (register here for the additional Adobe Create Now event which starts at 5:30pm).

Navigating Uncertainty: Insights from UX Frontlines
2024-06-03 11:00 - 12:00 | CA
As the design industry grapples with the aftermath of widespread layoffs and a challenging job market, there’s a pressing need to address the experiences, insights, and concerns of designers and researchers. Join our group of diverse, industry leading designers and researchers as they share their journeys, lessons learned, and advice for navigating these turbulent times in the product industry.
We’ll also talk about the work they do; the industries they’re in; their day to day; the critical need for diversity and inclusion; and what keeps them going. These are people who are doing the work; pushing pixels; interviewing; launching. Join and connect with the folks doing the work and navigating the market every day.

Event format
An hour long, virtual panel. The audience will be able to submit questions throughout that will be addressed in the second half of the discussion.

Meet the panel
Moderator: Mariam Khan is a seasoned product and design leader with over 16 years of experience. Passionate about mission-driven work, Mariam champions people-first approaches and has a proven track record of delivering next-gen products across all company stages. Dedicated to fostering growth and innovation within the design community, she also serves as a mentor and advisor, supporting startups and nonprofits in scaling teams and finding product-market fit, while fostering professional growth along the way.
Panelists:
Jason Branch is a designer, creator and storyteller with over ten years of experience designing for financial inclusion and economic empowerment . As a senior product designer at Square he leads design for debit/credit card and trust experiences.
Connie Wong is a Full-Stack Product Designer and Design Leader with 25 years of experience in Design and Tech in Silicon Valley, from Dot.com to Web3. She has launched award-winning products and applications used by millions and has led design teams at all stages of company growth along with running her own design studio. Trained by Nielsen-Norman Group, she’s an advocate for intuitive design processes. An artist and creator by nature, she is also a world-renowned Electronic Dance Music DJ and producer.
Sarah Fathallah is a designer, researcher, and educator, who specializes in applying participatory research and design in the social sector. Their work has included projects in over 25 countries with nonprofits, governments, and social enterprises such as the International Domestic Workers Federation and the International Rescue Committee, on topics ranging from labor rights, to reproductive health, housing justice, and foster care. Drawing from this body of work, they write and speak about engaging vulnerable communities, design ethics, trauma-responsive approaches to design, and the need for an ethic of care and an abolitionist politic in design. In addition to their research and design practice, Sarah also currently serves as faculty at the California College of the Arts and Pratt Institute.
Key Takeaways

Gain insights into the challenges and opportunities presented by layoffs in the UX industry.
Explore representation and diversity in fostering inclusive design practices.
Receive actionable advice and strategies for navigating the current job market and advancing in UX careers.
Engage with a diverse panel of industry experts, spanning both for-profit and non-profit sectors, to gain multifaceted perspectives.

Dynamic Minds: Creative Brilliance Seminar Series | Studio visits to Aidlin Darling Design, ODADA and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson [BCJ]
2024-06-01 13:00 - 17:00 | San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, CA, United States
This tour includes studio visits to Aidlin Darling Design, ODADA and BCJ. 5pm Reception. Participation will converse, meet, discuss idea, and meet the designers and architects.
About the Studios
AIDLIN DARLING DESIGN:
In 1998, co-founders Joshua Aidlin and David Darling began the studio crafting furniture together in a San Francisco woodshop. Today, this passion for shared making anchors the studio’s collaborative process. The approach to each project is client and site specific, and includes open communication among clients, consultants, fabricators, and builders to achieve innovative, unexpected results.
ADD pursues an architecture of restraint that engages the senses, connecting us to place and to ourselves. In a world that is increasingly dominated by the visual and virtual, the firm sees design as a multisensory experience, one in which the way something feels, smells and sounds is as important as how it looks.
Exploring how the studio’s work moves beyond the visual, Braden King’s film Aidlin Darling Design: Architecture for the Senses, captures the firm’s ethos and commitment to creating soulful environments.
ODADA design studio:
Founded in 1987 by Orlando Diaz-Azcuy, ODADA is an internationally recognized commercial and residential interior design firm. In 1990, David Todd Oldroyd and Greg Stewart became principals, with recent additions to the leadership team. Together they extend the firm’s strong architectural and design foundation, bringing a clean, focused approach to contemporary and traditional projects. The firm has a staff of 20 architects and designers to assure highly personalized attention to each client. The company currently works on projects around the world, including decades-long clients in London, San Francisco and Honolulu.
BCJ architects, ending with a reception.
BOHLIN CYWINSKI JACKSON: Founded in 1965, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson is an architecture practice with studios in Wilkes-Barre, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and New York. We work with our clients to understand the nature of their unique circumstance—the people, place, and materials that inform each design—to help translate collective aspirations into built environments that are greater than the sum of their parts. The resulting architecture feels simultaneously grounded and transcendent, carefully crafted to embody resiliency, and adapt to an ever-changing world. Our work has received more than 800 regional, national, and international awards for design, including four American Institute of Architects (AIA) COTE Top Ten Awards

About Diane Dorrans Saeks:
Learn more about Diane Dorrans Saeks on Instagram @dianedorranssaeks
Diane is the best-selling author of 25 design books, including ‘Michael S, Smith Elements of Style’ (Rizzoli) and her two most recent, “Jean-Louis Deniot Interiors’ (Rizzoli) and ‘Parisian by Design (Rizzoli). She is currently working on new books on design, style and interiors.

Diane is a founding editor with C California Style magazine, and the Design Editor of PAPERCITY magazine. She has written for Vogue, Vogue Living, The New York Times, the Financial Times, Veranda, Harper’s Bazaar, the Nob Hill Gazette, and many others.

Addresses AND LOCATIONS provided upon ticket purchase: Car pooling planned
Please note, locations are not suitable for children. All guests must bring a photo ID with them to the event that matches the name you registered under. Attendees will be emailed details on meeting location prior to the event.

ABOUT THE DYNAMIC MINDS SERIES:
The Dynamic Minds Seminars Series produced by Diane Dorrans Saeks is 4 separate afternoon events over a week from June 1 through June 8 2024.. Please acquire an ‘all access pass”; and then register for each event.
Creativity, ideas, inspiration and exploration, balanced with in-depth knowledge, remain essential elements in today’s interiors and architecture.
Inspiration and intense engagement are evident throughout four special afternoon seminars at the studios of leading California architects, a new showroom, and interior designers in San Francisco.
During the architecture and design studio on-site events in the series, attendees will meet San Francisco’s leading architecture and design practitioners and view work and discuss process.
Studios include Aidlin Darling Design, The Wiseman Group, BCJ, ODADA, Geoff de Sousa Design and de Sousa Hughes, and BAMO, Ken Fulk, Martin Kobus, Studio Collins Weir and The Office of Charles de Lisle. These 4 intense on-site seminars take place on different afternoons over 4 days and require separate ticketing. In each intense on-site seminar, we have a program to meet the designers and architects, to engage with new projects, and new highlights from work on the boards.
Each studio visit is an opportunity to encounter advanced ideas, creative procedures, and design and architecture concepts and advanced thinking.
Attendees will experience the full range of aesthetics, from pure modernism to richly informed classical design, traditional, bold, minimal, and eclectic expression. All are based on intellectual and intuitive disciplines. A highlight will be viewing and discussing works in process, as well as newly completed interiors and unpublished new residences.
We will see how studios fully use newest technical advances such as VR and AI, and 3D printing (and continue to sketch) in their design concepts and in interactions with their clients. Participants will view and engage with latest thinking on sustainability, ‘green’ practices, and the use of tech and an appreciation for sketching.
At the end of each day, participants are invited to a private in-studio reception and celebration, offering the opportunity to meet designers and their staff and to discuss in-depth ideas and views.

Led by best-selling author and leading interior design journalist/ author Diane Dorrans Saeks, this year’s interior designer program follows on the great success of last ten year’s programs.

Diane’s seminars offer a very rare opportunity to tour top architecture and interior design studios, meet with designers and architects one-on-one.
Dynamic San Francisco architecture and design firms on the seminar roster include Aidlin Darling Design, BAMO, and The Wiseman Group and BCJ, as well as leading interior designers Ken Fulk, Martin Kobus, Charles de Lisle, Susan Collins Weir, ODADA. A special visit to the new De Sousa Hughes NEW showroom is a highlight.

Each highly accomplished designer and architect will speak of works in progress, new work, and what they see happening in the near future. Studio visits celebrate achievement, creativity, the power of ideas, and the power of optimism. This program is not appropriate for children under 16, as they are architecture & design study tours of studios, with formal presentations made by company principals.

ADDITIONAL SEMINARS:
Learn more about other events in the series –
June 4, 1pm too 5pm: San Francisco
A studio visit is led by best-selling author Diane Dorrans Saeks at the Magic Factory headquarters of Ken Fulk, and his recently restored St Joseph’s Arts Society church, which is a studio/ atelier/ entertainment place. The venue is a lavish site for discussions on design, altruism and philanthropy.
June 7, 1 pm to 5 pm: Sausalito
Studio visits to The Office of Charles de Lisle, Studio Collins Weir, and culminating with a reception and refreshments at Martin Kobus Studio:
June 8, 1 pm to 5 pm: San Francisco
The design studios of The Wiseman Group and BAMO, and Geoffrey de Sousa Design and de Sousa Hughes, new showroom to view newest projects including modern and classical design, architectural historic restoration, and new design collections. BAMO has invited us to end the day with a reception.

Dynamic Minds, Brilliant Creativity: ODADA, GARY HUTTON, FELDMAN ARCHITECTURE
2023-06-17 13:00 - 17:00 | CA
“Dynamic Minds,Brilliant Creativity” Led by Best-selling author of 25 books on design and architecture, Instagram influencer, design lecturer and instructor, and founder of THE STYLE SALONISTE blog, Diane Dorrans Saek,, this year’s expanded interior designer program follows on the great success of last year’s program. The program offers a rare opportunity to tour top architecture and interior design studios, meet with designers and architects one-on-one, as well as attend talks and seminars led by Dorrans Saeks
Attendees are invited to a private reception at the end of the day, 5 pm. At this convivial time, we recap the day, meet the designers and architects, and discuss design, internships, career inspirations, and architecture.
*Meeting place address will be given on completion of ticket booking.
*No refunds available
GARY HUTTON DESIGN
Gary Hutton trained formally in studio arts and interior design. His beautiful modern work, engagement with process and 40-year career live at the intersection of interior design, high craft, and fine art. Hutton’s rooms have a formal, fine-living foundation layered under a modern language that reaches for clarity, lushness, emotion and delight. His small, artful practice creates relevant, trendsetting interiors coveted by tastemakers in many fields and by clients in search of curated living. Studio expertise includes advanced security systems, sustainability standards, and design for off-the-grid living. Hutton maintains a sculpture practice, which is visible in his furniture collections. He is a vintage car enthusiast and a passionate cook.
FELDMAN ARCHITECTURE
Feldman Architecture is an innovative residential and commercial design practice recognized for creating warm, light-filled spaces that are site-sensitive and carefully detailed. Highly collaborative in nature, the firm approaches design as a dialogue between client, design team and site. Each project is an opportunity to create an innovative solution that is relevant to the project environs and tailored to a clients’ specific needs. The studio’s culture is also informal and non-hierarchical; members of the small firm work with clients in an engaging, shared process to find smart and sustainable solutions. Closely guiding projects from design through construction, designers and project managers are deeply involved in research and probing the parameters of a project. Strong alliances with consultants, builders and artisans contribute to carefully informed design decisions and result in fully realized projects with conceptual clarity and precise detailing.
ODADA
ODADA is an internationally recognized interior design firm known for a clean, sophisticated aesthetic: a meticulously-edited take on luxury. Its portfolio includes interiors private residences, offices, hotels, condominium complexes, and wineries. It has also been tapped to design model suites, lending its name to some of the country’s most prestigious residential developments. The firm’s work has been featured in publications such as Architectural Digest, Veranda, Elle Décor, The New York Times, Luxe: Interiors + Design, Interior Design, Objekt, Maison Française, House Beautiful, and Interiors.

Whipsaw Open Studio
2023-06-12 17:00 - 20:00 | Whipsaw, 55 Mississippi St, San Francisco, 94107, United States
Join the Whipsaw team in our stunning new studio in Potrero Hill. See the light-filled industrial-chic space, enjoy our product gallery, meet members of the team, and pick up exclusive Whipsaw swag. We’re looking forward to seeing you in person!

Dynamic Minds, Brilliant Creativity: KEN FULK STUDIO AND ST. JOSEPHS
2023-06-12 13:00 - 17:00 | CA
“Dynamic Minds, Brilliant Creativity” led by Best-selling author of 25 books on design and architecture, Instagram influencer, design lecturer and instructor, and founder of THE STYLE SALONISTE blog, Diane Dorrans Saek, this year’s expanded interior designer program follows on the great success of last year’s program. The program offers a rare opportunity to tour top architecture and interior design studios, meet with designers and architects one-on-one, as well as attend talks and seminars led by Dorrans Saeks
Attendees are invited to a private reception at end of day, 5pm. At this convivial time, we recap the day, meet the designers and architects, and discuss design, internships, career inspirations and architecture.
*Meeting place address will be given on completion of ticket booking.
*No refunds available
KEN FULK is an acclaimed, award-winning AD100 designer and event planner with studios in New York and San Francisco. He and his team designed some of the most exciting restaurants, fantasy retail, private residences private clubs, and a broad array of highly original projects, each with a narrative to create an emotional response. Ken founded his design/events/production/branding/creative arts company over fifteen years ago in San Francisco. He now has a studio in New York, and a team of seventy. http://kenfulk.com/ and @kenfulk.

Zine Wars! Hosted by Stanford d.school
2023-06-11 14:00 - 17:00 | CA
Stanford d.school curators are hosting an immersive education and hands on making session centered around zines! Since the advent of mimeograph in the 1960’s (one of the first reproduction mediums beyond carbon paper), the underground and commercial platforms of zine making have revolutionized how creatives and industries engage in dynamic ways. Meet with zine making aficionados and newbies alike and explore the historic and contemporary happenings in this craft. Oh… and come make your own zine!

Young Designers hosted by Stanford d.school
2023-06-11 10:00 - 12:00 | CA
Calling all future designers! Built for young people ages 10-18, students from the Stanford University d.school are facilitating awesome workshops and design making sessions in several different mediums for youth! Youth participants are invited to come build prototypes of their wildest dream inventions, create digital presentations, design their own magazine, and or create a personal manifesto alongside other cool future designers!

Shared Experiences in Building Literary Design Works: Meet the Authors of Recent Books from the Stanford d.school
2023-06-10 15:00 - 17:00 | CA
Come step into the Stanford d.school “Hall of Books,” a fun museum exhibit-esque mounting of recently published books from faculty and friends of the design program at Stanford University. From Creative Acts for Curious People to Navigating Ambiguity, each book is filled with ready-to-use insights and design approaches. At the event, you can engage with authors and hear from them directly about the books, creative processes, and experience of sharing their beautiful book babies with the world. This is going down at the groovy and gorgeous Heath Ceramics factory and newsstand, adjacent to the Tartine Manufactory and Aesthetic Union. So come for books and stick around for bread and browsing!

Forward Momentum: Launch into Your Next Chapter
2023-06-10 15:00 - 17:00 | CA
Join us at Haum, a beautiful space quite literally floors above the day-to-day hussle of the everyday, for a guided exploration to imagine and realize the next chapter of your design career. Expect inspiring stories, accessible but powerful self-reflection and plenty of opportunities to connect with and build a network of support among members across the SF design community.
Using Story Coaching, a proven process designed for transitions, discover how to let go of what’s weighing you down, imagine what’s next and quite literally start taking the first steps to make it happen.
Whether you’re building a freelance career, dreaming of opening a design studio, looking for inspiration in your full-time job, or in need of inspiration and confidence to pursue something entirely new, this event is designed for you.
Friends in business and life, Danni, Natalia and Tony (the designers behind this year’s Plot Twist theme) and Lizzie will help you marry insight and action to create forward momentum. But have no fear, it’s not a yoga class! Come as you are, and leave feeling energized and inspired.
Event Speakers
Danni Pomplun, Founder, Haum
Natalia Kowaleczko, Founder + Creative Lead, Pact Studio
Tony Mingo, Partner + Engagement Lead, Pact Studio
Lizzie Azzolino, Leadership Coach, Facilitator & Collaborator, Work with Lizzie

Biofabrication Workshop: Grow a Mycelium Object with 10th Floor Studio
2023-06-10 14:00 - 16:30 | CA
If you’ve been curious about biofabrication or biomaterials, this workshop is for you.
Grow fungi into an object for your home. Here at 10th Floor Studio, we firmly believe that fungi can help us transition away from synthetic petroleum products and towards futures where humans coexist as a part of the natural world. We’ve been working with fungi for the last 5 years and are excited to offer a workshop to introduce you to these incredible organisms! Fungi exist in many forms, in this session we’ll be using the oft-unseen underground body of the fungi, called mycelium, to grow a bud vase for your home. This 2.5-hour workshop will begin with a brief intro to growing objects out of fungi and our work at 10th Floor Studio. You’ll learn the basics about choosing a suitable species of fungi, how to avoid contamination, and how to create an object using a mold form. We’ll walk you through designing and assembling your customized bud vase mold. Then it’s time to break up the mycelium, pack it in the mold, and let it grow!
Note: You’ll take home your bud vase still in the mold. It will need 2 weeks for the mycelium to grow out and firm up. It will not need any attention while it grows. After 2 weeks you’ll dry it out and halt any further growth. Don’t worry, we’ll give you instructions on what to do once you leave the workshop 🙂
**DETAILS:**
– Try biofabrication yourself and take home your mycelium bud vase
– Cost: $120
– Limited to 20 people

Speculative futures and Designing with AI: Exploring Industrial, Speculative, and Ethical Implications
2023-06-10 14:00 - 16:00 | CA
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the way we design products, services, and experiences. From manufacturing and logistics to fashion and entertainment, AI is being used to streamline processes, enhance creativity, and optimize outcomes. However, as AI becomes more ubiquitous, it is crucial to consider the ethical, social, and cultural implications of AI design.
San Francisco Speculative Futures is here for those interested in Speculative Design, Critical Design,Design Fiction, Discursive Design, Strategic Foresight and Futurism, Science Fiction and any vision or approach which involves using design as a vehicle to speculate about potential futures and the strategies we employ.
The objective of this panel discussion is to provide a platform for industry experts to share their insights on the different industrial and speculative applications of AI, as well as the ethical and design principles that guide their development. Join us for this conversation.

Dynamic Minds, Brilliant Creativity: AIDLIN DARLING AND BAMO
2023-06-10 13:00 - 17:00 | CA
“Dynamic Minds, Brilliant Creativity” Led by Best-selling author of 25 books on design and architecture, Instagram influencer, design lecturer and instructor, and founder of THE STYLE SALONISTE blog, Diane Dorrans Saek, this year’s expanded interior designer program follows on the great success of last year’s program. The program offers a rare opportunity to tour top architecture and interior design studios, meet with designers and architects one-on-one, as well as attend talks and seminars led by Dorrans Saeks
Attendees are invited to a private reception at end of day, 5pm. At this convivial time, we recap the day, meet the designers and architects, and discuss design, internships, career inspirations and architecture.
*Meeting place address will be given on completion of ticket booking.
*No refunds available
AIDLIN DARLING DESIGN
Joshua Aidlin and David Darling began their partnership crafting furniture together in a San Francisco wood shop in 1998. Today, this history of craft and passion for shared making anchors its collaborative process. The firm’s approach to each project is client and site specific, and includes open communication among clients, consultants, fabricators, and builders.
At Aidlin Darling Design, the firm thinks of design as a sensory art, one where the way a space feels is as important as how it looks. As a multidisciplinary firm, this ethos is its guiding principle across projects of any scale, use, or purpose.
The firm recently collaborated with director Braden King on a film that explores how its studio’s work moves beyond just the visual to engage all of the senses. The result, Aidlin Darling Design: Architecture for the Senses, captures the firm’s ethos and commitment to creating soulful environments.
BAMO
For thirty years, BAMO has created captivating environments that flow, function, and make people feel welcome, at ease, and inspired to live — and to dream — more fully. A collective of designers, the firm brings to each project a richness of experience and perspective, along with an impassioned view of life and our work.
The firm engages clients graciously, listening for the unspoken needs beneath their stated desires. Speaking to the psyche through the senses, and building in layers of meaning, the firm creates true havens: places apart from the everyday. Its interpretive skill is matched by the rigor, expertise, and ingenuity the firm brings to seeing projects through to completion. This is why hospitality, residential, and corporate clients around the world trust BAMO to bring their visions to life.

MCD Mobile MakeArt x Pop-Up Village: PRIDEful Juneteenth
2023-06-10 13:00 - 16:30 | CA
The Museum of Craft and Design returns to Bayview-Hunters Point for a celebration of PRIDE, Father’s Day, and SF Design Week 2023!
Meet us at the Pop-Up Village– a site activation that harnesses the power of design to catalyze the magic that emerges when people and programs come together in public space. The Pop-Up Village features a constellation of dynamic programming — health and wellness, youth and family, retail, food, and education resources — in customized buses, vans, pop-up shops, furniture, and other types of mobile architecture and nature.
MCD is joined by “Fight and Flight” exhibiting artist, Ramekon O’Arwisters, whose interactive, hands-on Crochet Jam uses the folk-art tradition of crocheting strips of fabric into free-form and organic soft sculptures to foster social interaction, creativity, and liberation. Allow yourself to escape into creative process uninhibited by expectations! Basic instruction in crochet will be provided.
The Pop-Up Village is an architecture project of Oakland-based Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, and seeks to bring regenerative design back into the hands of community. Place matters.
All-ages welcome, event and project FREE
Learn more: https://popupvillage.org/event/popping-up-2nd-saturdays-in-the-bayview-6-10-23/

Imaginate Saturdays @ Creativity Explored
2023-06-10 13:00 - 15:00 | CA
Imaginate Saturdays is a place where people of all ages and abilities can work alongside Creativity Explored artists and teaching artists to explore the power of creativity and the magic of the CE Studios. Join us for this weekly program centered around open studio time and spontaneous special projects.
No experience needed.
Come IMAGINATE with our artists!

Wearing the Fabric of the Future - Open Studio
2023-06-10 12:00 - 18:00 | CA
Open from 12:00-6:00pm
Meet Jennifer Daley and her team of collaborators
Enjoy local fair and join the discussion about the future of fabrics
Enter to win 1 of 3 door prizes
An invitation to tour The Daley Textile House, Textile Lab, and Regenerative Demonstration Garden. Meet some of our Textile and Land Team members, and immerse yourself in our exhibit of forward thinking regenerative fabrics for every day. Learn about new concepts of textile development and see the practical application of concepts in a comfortable home setting and experience our textiles first hand. Stroll through the urban permaculture garden and feel the connection between the outdoors and our textiles – made to protect and comfort you in all environments. Mingle with other like-minded design folks and enjoy drinks and local fair from our neighborhood food purveyors El Caballo Gourmet Mexican Restaurant (elcaballowraps.com) and Island Savoy Market (islandsavoymarket.com).

Gantri & Bay Area Made Present “The Locally Crafted Home”: A Celebration of New Lighting and Design Talent
2023-06-10 11:00 - 2023-06-11 17:00 | CA
Sustainable lighting manufacturer Gantri will open its SOMA studio to showcase and celebrate Bay Area designers and their work. There are two components to this event:
Gantri Summer 2023 Independent Creator Release
As a central focus of the event, the lighting brand will be introducing its newest Independent Creator Release collection of 3D printed designs made from plant-based materials. Each year, Gantri’s ICR provides a platform to support emerging design talent. The summer collection comprises a range of versatile table and wall lights designed by Joey Zeledon, Romulo Temigue, Simon Schmitz, and BEBOP.
Bay Area Made: The Locally Crafted Home
Gantri’s lights will be displayed in an installation curated by Bay Area Made, a collective of values-driven makers around the Bay. “Bay Area Made: The Locally Crafted Home” will be styled as a living space with different vignette-style environments showcasing products from over 30 of the Bay Area’s finest makers, including established and emerging names such as Heath Ceramics, Biome, Model No, FYRN, Concreteworks, and many more.
Saturday, June 10th, 11am-5pm
Sunday, June 11th, 11am-5pm

Pop-up Design Materials Mercantile powered by the Stanford d.school
2023-06-10 - 2023-06-11 | CA
Come anytime to visit with us during the hours of:
Saturday, June 10th from 12pm-5pm
Sunday, June 11th from 12pm-5pm
Pop in to discover a recent slate of beautiful publications from the Stanford d.school as well as other materials from established and emerging leaders in the field. Engage with and purchase publications that balance depth and delight. Meet Stanford d.school staff and students. Connect with materials and people that inform and inspire. This is going down at the groovy and gorgeous Heath Ceramics factory and newsstand, adjacent to the Tartine Manufactory and Aesthetic Union. So come for books and stick around for bread and browsing!
You do not need a ticket to design week to attend this pop-up! Open to the public!

BEBOP / Industrial Design Celebration
2023-06-09 18:00 - 21:00 | CA
BEBOP is an industrial design studio based in Seoul, globally collaborating with startups to established brands. In January 2023, we opened our second office in San Francisco and we’ve prepared this special event to meet the local community, make new friends, and to celebrate the creative field of industrial design.
We will be exhibiting a diverse selection of products that we’ve designed along with prototypes and sketches that give you a vivid look into our design process, specially set up for SF Design Week. Additionally, Rich Park, Co-Founder of BEBOP, will share a presentation about the team’s insights on the power industrial design has on businesses and consumers based on the team’s past experiences.
There will also be time for you to network with attendees throughout the event.
Anyone is welcome, whether you’re a creative professional, working on a hardware startup, already running a successful brand, or just curious about the design industry.
Join us for an evening of celebrating industrial design or just come by to grab a few, or many, complimentary drinks.
EVENT SCHEDULE
6:00pm-7:00pm / networking
7:00pm-7:40pm / BEBOP presentation
7:40pm:8:00pm / Q&A
8:00pm-9:00pm / BEBOP exhibition & networking

Experiments in AI - A Show & Tell at IDEO
2023-06-09 17:00 - 19:30 | CA
If you could talk to your jeans, what would you say? Come to IDEO’s new digs and walk through a gallery of AI experiments. We’ll hear from designers and partners about how they’re playing with this explosive new medium, then have a “conversation that moves”—no spoilers, just trust us, this will be fun.
Join us for a drink and think about how designers will use generative AI to shape the future.

Steep Urbanists Tour directed by Lina Bondarenko
2023-06-09 16:00 - 18:00 | CA
Join us on a participatory movement experience in architecture and perspective over Telegraph Hill.
This tour positions urban design as a collaboration with the earth’s geography.
The plan of San Francisco drapes a city grid over 48 hills. Streets undulate like rollercoasters, snaking around the land’s contours, rupturing to reveal concrete walls bisected by vegetated staircases. Architects design horizontal planes to contort and step into vertical terrain. Steep slopes swap roles between the theater’s rake and the elevated stage. The observer is always observed. Distorted perspectives amplify the performance of everyday life through distance.
Steep Urbanists are invited to dance through the spatial volumes of San Francisco’s sloped streets, tuned to corresponding musical volumes that trace the synchronicity between a sound wave and an architectural section.
Steep Urbanist is a project investigating how human infrastructure responds to the logic of the land directed by Lina Bondarenko– an architect, dancer, educator, and student.

Hey Siri, Let’s Talk AI with Adam Cheyer, Co-Creator of Siri
2023-06-09 15:30 - 17:30 | CA
Discover the future of AI and Design with Adam Cheyer, founder of SIRI, who is a renowned pioneer and thought leader in the field of artificial intelligence. Join us at our brand-new Potrero Hill studio for a thought-provoking talk on AI, the most impactful and transcendent technology the design world has ever seen.
As a co-founder and original team member responsible for creating Apple’s SIRI virtual assistant, Cheyer brings unique and invaluable insights into the role that AI is set to play in shaping our world. This event is a must-attend for anyone interested in staying ahead of the curve in the fast-paced world of AI and its effects on design.
Don’t miss your chance to learn from the best and discover the future of AI with Adam Cheyer and Whipsaw.
Refreshments provided.
Agenda:
3:30pm – 4:00pm Doors Open & Networking
4:00pm – 5:00pm – Speaker: Adam Cheyer
5:00pm – 5:15pm – Q&A
5:15pm – 5:30pm – Networking

The Design Language of Belonging
2023-06-09 15:00 - 16:30 | CA
What does it mean to design spaces that evoke belonging? In this workshop, we’ll investigate what belonging means to us and how it manifests in our physical spaces. Through creating a shared language of “patterns,” we’ll discover design principles that can be applied across our environments. We’ll collaboratively push the boundaries of our imagination and prototype these envisioned spaces using generative AI.

WORKSHOP: Dreaming of Electric Sheep, A Creative Salon on AI
2023-06-09 10:00 - 15:00 | CA
Led by Tara Tan, Managing Partner, Strange Ventures
Ready for a mind-bending journey through the uncharted realms of creativity? Ditch those same-old, yawn-inducing brainstorming sessions and join us for an hour of hallucinatory exploration. We’re spicing things up with a twist: a guided meditation and visualization session that’ll help you break free from the chains of mundane thinking and unleash your inner creative genius.
​Once you’ve tapped into that hidden wellspring of ingenuity, we’ll dive headfirst into brainstorming the future of AI. We’ll kick off with a guided visualization, which will roll into a dream-like journaling or jamming (depending on whether you’d like to go solo or brainstorm with a cluster).
​Don’t miss out on this one-of-a-kind experience that combines mindfulness, collaboration, and imagination. Namaste, future-shapers!
Note: No drugs, religion, or theology will be administered in this session.

Design Soup - Multidisciplinary Design Showcase - Open Studio
2023-06-08 18:30 - 20:30 | CA
Join us for a tasting of design in all its physical forms, with hardware, physical products, furniture, architecture, and art on display at Studio 45.
This is an open showcase for the professional creative community to demo physical objects. We’ll have both Studio 45 members share their work as well as an open call for the Bay Area community to share.
Apply here >> https://airtable.com/shrHZD0QXAVtSRRUj
🎁 Those selected will be offered a discounted membership at Studio 45. One finalist will be offered a 6 month free membership. Studio 45 is a coworking and event space located in Bernal Heights that provides the workspace, tools, resources, and community to build a business making physical products.

How AI Can Help Designers To Be Efficient
2023-06-08 18:00 - 21:00 | CA
As creative professionals, we often find ourselves bogged down by repetitive tasks that can drain our energy and time. However, thanks to AI and generative technology, we can now dream of a world where these tasks can be streamlined and automated, freeing up our time for more complex and imaginative aspects of our creative process.
Join us as we delve into AI as a trusted “Co-Pilot” to support our work and explore and dream of next-generation tools and capabilities you would like to have in your hands. Our panelists will share their unique insights and challenges in their roles as creatives in the design and tech industry.
This event is a must-attend for anyone interested in the evolution of our industry and getting prepared for new skills and tools that are already redefining the way we work. You’ll be able to ask questions, share your thoughts, and network with talented industry professionals while enjoying some great drinks and bites.
6 pm – 6:30 pm Door open
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Panel Discussion
7:30 pm – 8 pm Q&A
8 pm – 9 pm Networking, Food + Beverages*
9 pm Door close
*Food and beverages will be served

Art Event at MMclay Showroom + Studio- Exploring visual, tactile and culinary art in community with tableware by MMclay, paintings by Heather McFarlin and food by Charles Phan.
2023-06-08 18:00 - 21:00 | CA
Please stop by MMclay Showroom + Studio for an evening of art and food as we feature the beautiful abstract paintings of local artist Heather McFarlan and delicious food by Slanted Door’s renowned chef Charles Phan. The MMclay Showroom + Studio features custom ceramic lighting fixtures along with six lines of beautiful tableware designed by owner, MaryMar Keenan. The event will take place from 6pm-9pm in the MMclay Showroom + Studio located at 69 Gough St in the popular Hayes Valley neighborhood.
*Mention SF Design Week and receive 10% off any MMclay purchases or orders during the event.

SEGD SF x AIGA SF: Richard Poulin presents his latest book, Rational Simplicity: Rudolf de Harak, Graphic Designer
2023-06-08 18:00 - 21:00 | CA
Please join the SEGD San Francisco chapter and AIGA San Francisco Thursday June 8th, 2023 from 6-9pm for a special evening with Richard Poulin discussing his new book, Rational Simplicity: Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer. Richard is an SEGD fellow and award-winning designer, educator, author, and artist. His career spans forty years in graphic, environmental, interior, and exhibition design where he divides his time between professional practice and academia. In his new book, Richard celebrates his mentor and unsung hero of mid-century modern design through featuring images of his work along with rarely shared collages, paintings, and remembrances from friends, family, students, and colleagues.
Inspired by modernism, Rudolph de Harak was one of the most influential American graphic design pioneers. His design work included everything from album covers, book jackets, and branding to furniture, exhibitions, and museums, often incorporating innovative and experimental photographic techniques and exploring abstraction, geometry, and color. With an early career beginning in Los Angeles to working as a design consultant and educator in New York City, de Harak’s clients include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Columbia Records, Esquire magazine, McGraw-Hill Publishing, and the Cummins Engine Company, among many others. Rational Simplicity: Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer is the first publication to document de Harak’s career.
The event will take place at the Haworth Showroom in The Mills Building located at 220 Bush Street, Suite 975, approximately 2 blocks from Montgomery BART Station.
Please use the entrance at 220 Bush Street to access the building. All other entrances will be locked at the time of the event. If you require an accessible ramp to enter the building, please let us know ahead of time at sf-chapter@segd.org and we will happily accommodate you.
Public parking is not available in the building, however there are many public garages and street parking available in the area.
Schedule:
6:00 p.m.–6:45p.m. Check-in and networking*
7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Presentation and discussion
8:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. Book signing and reception
*Please arrive by 6:45pm to attend this event due to building security.
The book will be available for purchase at the event. Light snacks and refreshments will be served.
SF Design Week attendees will be entered into door prize raffles for a copy of the book!
We would like to thank the Haworth San Francisco Showroom for generously hosting us for this event!
About Richard Poulin
Richard Poulin is a designer, educator, author, and artist. Throughout his career he has focused on a generalist approach to all aspects of design, including graphic, environmental, interior, and exhibition design, dividing his time between professional practice and academia. He was Design Director and Managing Partner of Poulin + Morris Inc., a New York City-based multidisciplinary design consultancy he co-founded in 1989 with Douglas Morris. As a highly-respected educator, he was an adjunct professor at Cooper Union and the School of Visual Arts for over two decades and a recipient of a research grant in design history from the Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in Fine Art. Richard is also a recipient of a Fellow from the Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD), the profession’s highest honor; and his work is in the permanent design collections of the Denver Museum of Art, Letterform Archive, Library of Congress, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). He is the author of several books on graphic design, typography, and design history which have been translated into eight languages and used by students and practitioners worldwide. Richard’s new book, a monograph on the life and work of Rudolph de Harak—Rational Simplicity: Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer—traces the rich and varied career of one of the masters of American mid-century modernist graphic design and was released in the Fall of 2022 by Thames & Hudson (London). As an artist, his most recent solo exhibition, entitled “Visual Essays: Elemental Singularities” was at the Brian Marki Fine Art Gallery in Palm Springs, California. His fine art has also been exhibited throughout the United States and is in the collections of several private collectors.
Richard lives in Palm Springs, California. You can follow his work or contact him on Instagram @richardpoulin or richardpoulin.net

Adobe: Creating Gen AI Tools with and for Designers - San Jose
2023-06-08 18:00 - 20:00 | CA
This event takes place in San Jose, California
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 about how it takes a human touch to make and create the next generation of design tools. We will start with a brief demo, followed by the panel discussion, and wrap with audience Q&A.

Small Business Manufacturing
2023-06-08 18:00 - 20:00 | CA
Join us for an engaging panel discussion during SF Design Week, in which we’ll dive deep into the world of small business manufacturing. “Crafting Success: Small Business Strategies in Manufacturing,” will be a lively discussion that brings together small business owners in different industries to discuss the hardships and successes of manufacturing. Designer and Small Business Owner Melanie Abrantes will moderate the conversation between Panelists Christine Trac from Abacus Row, Miranda Jones from Galanter & Jones, Noah Guy from Joshu Vela and more.
From in-house production to the adventures of outsourcing abroad, our panelists will discuss their experiences, challenges, and achievements in bringing their product to life. You’ll get an intimate discussion on how these small businesses craft their own path to success. Stick around after the panel for a mingling session, where you’ll have the opportunity to chat, meet the panelists, and connect with fellow attendees. Light snacks and drinks will be provided.
Event will be at Abacus Row atelier in San Francisco, limited seating will be available.
Event Details:
Location: 1256 Mason St. San Francisco, CA
Thurs June 8, 2023 | 6-8pm
Panel Discussion will begin at 6:30-7:30pm
Networking and Mingling from 7:30-8pm
