This year, the event, produced by AIGA SF, The Professional Association for Design, will again celebrate and promote San Francisco as the world’s most influential design center, creating a platform for inspirational design initiatives, celebrating with the future forward theme “Start Here” and social media pledge #StartHereSFDW. Over 200 events across the San Francisco Bay Area will be offered from Silicon Valley to San Francisco, promoting ideas from more than 60 partners, representing the heart of San Francisco’s design community.
“San Francisco’s international success is now a global phenomenon,” says Dawn Zidonis, executive director, AIGA SF. “Bay Area pioneers and startups are now leading some of the world’s most influential design-led companies, affecting the daily lives of billions of people across the world. San Francisco Design Week draws in the world’s greatest thinkers, practitioners, and game changers to deliver an essential annual think tank.”
This year’s program continues to reflect the diversity of design disciplines practiced across the Bay Area, with a series of events, talks, workshops, and exhibitions to bring these interests to life. A major part of Design Week is the Design Hub, a central location which houses a broad range of activities including talks, installations, and exhibitions, followed by a week-long series of events hosted across the city at design studios and other local venues, such as museums, shops, restaurants, and pop-up locations in the design community.
About SF Design Week
The Future Started Here
SFDW is an essential week-long regional festival that showcases the unique intersection of ideas, design, business & entrepreneurism that makes the Bay Area the birthplace of the future.
Now a global phenomenon, San Francisco’s international success is born from a historically free-spirited entrepreneurialism, coupled with the imaginative vision of contemporary design and state-of-the-art technology. Pioneers of new ways of looking at the world, nimble Bay Area start-ups are now among the world’s most influential design-led companies, producing products, services, and experiences that profoundly influence the daily lives of billions of people globally.
Through studio tours and events, SFDW celebrates this spirit of newness by providing unique access to exhibitions and conversations with the designers who are shaping the future—from architecture to fashion, product design to digital services, and everything in between.
San Francisco Design Week is a community event led by a team of advisors and a core committee which represents the diversity of design disciplines in the Bay Area. The event is produced by AIGA SF the professional association for design, a 501 (3) c and the oldest and largest membership association for professionals engaged in the discipline, practice, and culture of designing.
2018 San Francisco Design Week Start Here: Campaign by Office
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