Featured Programs


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Adobe

Join SF Design Week & Adobe for both In Person and Virtual Events for this year’s event lineup.
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. The company’s award-winning technologies and software have redefined business, entertainment and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people anywhere at anytime and through any medium.

VIRTUAL FORMAT

  • How to Make a Colorful Presentation in Adobe InDesign JUNE 21, 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
  • Draw On-the-Go with Illustrator on the iPad JUNE 21, 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
  • IN – PERSON FORMAT

    FourOneNine 419 Tenth Street, SF

  • Designing a Standout Portfolio in Adobe XD JUNE 24, 10:00 – 11:00 AM
  • How to Design with 3D Effects in Adobe Illustrator JUNE 24, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
  • Into the Metaverse: Speculating on the future of illustration JUNE 24, 12:00 – 1:00 PM
  • Advanced Photoshop Techniques You Need to Know JUNE 24, 1:00 – 2:00 PM
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    Google

    Google Design

    Join SF Design Week with Google for 5 unique events with Google Design. Google Design is a cooperative effort led by a group of designers, writers, and developers at Google. We work across teams to create content and produce events that showcase Google’s design work and champion innovators in our field.

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    Diane Dorran Saeks

    Diane is the design authority who is the author of 25 books on interiors and architecture and decor and international design. Diane is the interiors editor of PaperCity and a founding editor with C Magazine, California Style. Among Diane’s latest books, all published by Rizzoli, are ’Stamps & Stamps Style & Sensibility’, and ‘Jean-Louis Deniot Interiors’. Her newest book, ‘Parisian by Design Interiors of David Jimenez’ will be published in September 2022. Diane plans and leads the SFDW visits to the private design studios of leading and influential San Francisco interiors designers. These top designers work on diverse and very exciting projects around the world including city and country residences, hotels, private clubs, restaurants, resorts, highrises, retail, company headquarters, and private retreats. They work in many styles, many approaches, a myriad of projects and designs. Events are standalone and require a separate ticket.
    Follow and find out more about DIANE and her influential blog, and in her books published by Rizzoli.

    Photo image credit: Matthew Millman

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    Exhibition: Bay Area Made Workspaces

    Bay Area Made is a platform dedicated to showcasing products and brands made in the Bay Area which highlight the richness and diversity of our region, west coast craftsmanship, and reflect the values of the companies that have chosen to make their products here. Bay Area Made plays a key role in building community amongst local makers, which facilitates collaboration, innovation, resources, and shared best practices.

    This exhibition showcases the studios, workshops, and factories where Bay Area Made member companies make everything from home & garden, apparel & accessories, food & beverage, and body & bath products. You will also learn about the products they make, the tools and materials they use, and their making process. We hope this look behind the scenes gives you a greater understanding and appreciation of what goes into making high quality products – and inspires you to support your local makers.

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    Support Local Businesses! Featured Design Sight: Letterform Archive

    Letterform Archive is a nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing & community in graphic design. We hold physical and digital artifacts that chronicle the history of written communication, from the invention of writing and medieval manuscripts to modernism, the age of print to the present explosion of digital type.

    We recently opened our first-ever public exhibition at our new home in the Dogpatch. “Bauhaus Typography at 100” is on view now in the Letterform Archive gallery and features work by Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, and Joost Schmidt, along with others whose innovative typographic contributions are often overlooked, including women such as Friedl Dicker.

    Dogpatch
    2325 Third Street
    Floor 4R
    San Francisco, CA 94107

    Monday – Wednesday Closed
    Thursday 1:00-8:00PM Free to the public
    Friday, 1:00-8:00PM
    Saturday, 11:00AM – 6:00PM
    Sunday, 11:00AM – 6:00PM

    Visit Lettform Archive

    NZ Design Pavilion

    New Zealand Design brings together a group of independent furniture, lighting and textile businesses. Designers of original and enduring products that engage the senses and marry functional with the beautiful. Because as humans, we’re all thinking, feeling creatures who instinctively crave spaces designed to be enjoyed. Events are independently listed by NZ Design Pavilion.

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    Enrich Every Day – Formways Paul Wilkinson and Ken Parker

    JUNE 21, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

    Design directors of the studio Formway, Kent and Paul share their passion and journey designing furniture to Enrich Every Day.

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    The Art & Design of Collaboration

    JUNE 21, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

    Celebrated designer Jim Looney joins a panel discussion exploring the challenges and benefits of collaboration in the world of design.

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    Lifting the Curtain on Textile Design

    JUNE 23, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

    Sit at the table with Annie Moir and Stephanie Moffitt, two leading kiwi textile designers.

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    Decorative Fixtures & the WELL Standard – Who Knew?

    JUNE 24, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

    IDCEC and AIA approved course examining the Well Building standard and how decorative and acoustic fixtures can be utilized to achieve the standard.

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    Designing for Health & Wellness

    JUNE 27, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

    Design for health and well-being within the built environment: materials, products, certifications and a dive into ergonomic seating design.

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    Book Launch: The Other Way by David Trubridge with Leslie Roberts

    JUNE 27, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

    Bay Area design community leader Leslie Roberts talks with David Trubridge about his new book. Design Community Happy Hour follows.

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    Design Community: Happy Hour

    JUNE 27, 6:00 – 8:00 PM

    Mix, mingle and network with Bay Area design colleagues and leaders from New Zealand deign companies in the New Zealand Design Pavilion.

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    Decorative Fixtures & the WELL Standard – Who knew?

    JUNE 29, 12:00 – 1:30 PM

    IDCEC and AIA approved course examining the Well Building standard and how decorative and acoustic fixtures can be utilized to achieve the standard.

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    Beauty Matters by David Trubridge

    JUNE 29, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

    Award winning New Zealand designer, David Trubridge presents Beauty Matters, an examination on the importance of beauty in design, human evolution & more.

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