2020 Festival ON DEMAND
SFDW is an essential week-long city-wide 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.
We believe in diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion and the importance of having varied perspectives so as designers we can create better products and services to solve complex challenges. Our commitment to these values is unwavering across our programming, reach and impact. We are committed to elevating ALL voices to ensure we are hearing from designers with a diverse array backgrounds, points of view and professional experience level.
VIRTUAL EVENTS ON DEMAND
Opening Remarks with Alana Washington
We’ll hear from Alana Washington, Senior Design Program Manager at Uber Freight as she sets the tone and welcomes you all to this years San Francisco Design Week
Alana Washington, Uber Freight
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Spotlight with Zahid Sadar: Gary Hutton
Spotlight With Zahid Sardar is a dynamic, fun and informal virtual forum, hosted by acclaimed design editor, writer and curator Zahid Sardar.
Zahid Sadar, Gary Hutton, Gary Hutton Design
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Behind the Design & Future of Fashion
Our online San Francisco Design Week Event will include a trend forecasting summary from the Executive Director of the Fashion Incubator San Francisco (FiSF), explaining fascinating design trends we’re already seeing from fashion designers as a response to COVID-19.
Fashion Incubator SF
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EXPERIENCES
Reification.io with Ruth Ranieri,
ReVision, created by Reification.io, is a multi-user immersive design visualization system for designers to produce a compelling visual representation of their designs. These design representations can be experienced by multiple users in person or remotely, using a Desktop or a Virtual Reality headset.
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This VR Guided tour with Kuth Kanieri is a unique experience that brings the studio to you in an interactive and engaging way by creating and virtual reality of Kuth Ranier’s Design Clover Pavilion. Kuth Ranier’s team will meet you inside the VR Studio where they will guide you through the experience virtually.
About Kuth Ranieri
We established Kuth Ranieri Architects in 1990. Over the last two decades we’ve produced a broad spectrum of projects, from small-scaled objects and installations to buildings and urban design proposals. The firm has earned a regional and national reputation for innovative works that integrate current cultural discourse with contemporary issues of design, technology and the environment.
Central to our work is an intention to amplify craft within design favoring a performative approach over a formal one. Our preoccupation with and investigation of materials, components, and systems signal an effort to precisely measure things that are often indeterminate or unknown: the latent aspects inherent in each investigation, site, or program. As our practice matures, the work evolves toward a consistent position in which sustainable strategies push beyond building performance to focus on the development of an expression of environmental architecture.
Reification.io with Nonfiction
ReVision, created by Reification.io, is a multi-user immersive design visualization system for designers to produce a compelling visual representation of their designs. These design representations can be experienced by multiple users in person or remotely, using a Desktop or a Virtual Reality headset.
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This VR Guided tour with Nonfiction gives users an exclusive first-person preview of the Movida School in an interactive and engaging way by creating and virtual realty of Nonfiction’s design.
About the Movida School Virtual Design
The Movida School breaks convention and welcomes people of all ages to learn, play, connect, and build a future without limits. The school combines sustainable practices, emotional intelligence development, exposure to entrepreneurship, and a healthy dose of absurdity.
About Nonfiction
Nonfiction is a San Francisco-based creative studio specializing in industrial design, branding, user experience design, architecture, engineering and strategy.
We turn science fiction into reality for a better future.
We engage consumers through the design of unique and sophisticated products with rich backstories. Our clients range from Fortune 500 companies to funded startups all over the world. We leverage our relationships with engineering and manufacturing partners to execute your ideas on time and on budget.
