Hosted by DesignBayArea, you’ll hear from founders, funders, and design executives at some of the most exciting startups and funds in the Bay Area in an exciting fireside chat. Panelists: Jo Marini CEO, Founder & MBA Professor at Mothership Materials: a climate-era ingredients manufacturer that’s designing biodegradable next-generation materials for consumer goods products through its

This fall, San Francisco State University School of Design will launch the first materials library on the West Coast dedicated solely to sustainable materials: the SFSU Sustainable Materials Learning Library. SFSU Students and faculty in design have spent the last two years collecting physical material samples from groundbreaking sustainable materials innovators in countries as far flung as Australia, New

In one of their proudest moments in the studio’s trajectory, Manual has evolved the Obama Foundation brand identity with a comprehensive redesign ahead of the Obama Presidential Center’s opening in 2026. Join Hashem Bajwa, Chief Creative Officer of the Obama Foundation, alongside Tom Crabtree, Founder, and Vanessa Lam, Design Director, from Manual. We’ll share the

The SF Chapter of the Service Design Network would like to formally invite you to mingle with fellow designers at the Gott’s Roadside at the Ferry Building for a Happy Hour, on June 4th, 4:30-6:30p. Hoping the whether is nice there is outdoor seating that we will gather at, with the option of indoor seating

Please join us in a celebration of creativity and community as we come together to bring attention to the AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP), a non-profit organization that’s been close to our hearts for two decades. As part of our Sköna Forward initiative, we’ve provided the creative design concepts for ALRP’s annual gala for the