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Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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.
PACT is a Mission-based studio built on partnership, integrity, and trust—committed to developing distinct brand identities with intentional points of view. Get to know us, and you’ll find a team of passionate collaborators seeking out new perspectives to create more equitable and meaningful outcomes.
We are Mucho, the global boutique design studio. We create design with meaning from our locations in Barcelona, San Francisco, Paris, and New York.
Retronyms makes powerful tools that enable people to create, share, and engage through creative
technology.
We combine design, engineering, and strategy to bring integrated technology experiences and products to life.
World’s first collaborative creative space. For teams, Playbook makes it easy to share, and collaborate on visual projects. For freelancers, Playbook makes it easy to collaborate with clients and share their work with the world. The new way to manage files and folders.
The world’s first + largest specialized talent solutions firm that connects opportunities at great companies with highly skilled job seekers. Offering contract, temp and permanent placement for finance and accounting, tech, marketing, creative, legal, and administrative customer support roles. Named to Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies and 100 Best Companies to Work For® lists and a Forbes Best Employer for Diversity.
Four One Nine is a versatile community studio and creative agency, founded by Sonya Yu. Its collective of creatives and strategists refine and build atypical ideas across branding, events and digital content. Located in San Francisco’s SoMA district, its physical and agency offerings serve as connective tissue that brings people together and unusual ideas to life — so community and culture can thrive.
Arhaus, a leader in artisan-crafted furniture and home décor. The brand further expands its presence in California with a 17,904 square-foot destination at the iconic shopping center in the Grove Los Angeles. Currently Arhaus has locations in the Bay Area in Los Gatos, Burlingame, Walnut Creek, and will be opening the newest location August 2024 in Palo Alto.
Manual is a design and visual communication studio in SF. Our work strives to uncover the intangible essence of a brand and express it through unique visual solutions. In doing so, we give brands more value and distinction.
Mauk Design specializes in exhibit design and corporate communications, and puts special emphasis on the marketing integration of two and three dimensional images. Mitchell Mauk has won multiple awards from the IDSA, SEGD, AIGA, and was named Exhibit Designer of the Year by Exhibitor Magazine.
North America’s top brands trust Hemlock for their printing needs. We deliver superior results through expert craftsmanship, advanced technology and sustainable print practices.
Arkitektura is distinguished for the amazing breadth of its offerings as well as its deep relationships with the world’s foremost design manufacturers such as B&B Italia, Minotti, Cassina, Poltrona Frau, Cappellini, Flos, Maxalto, USM, Bocci and many more.
We are an architect-led design build firm specializing in remodels, renovations, additions, and new homes in the Bay Area, especially San Francisco, Marin, and the East Bay.
Our collections are handmade by true artisans, keeping an ancient lineage of craftsmanship alive. Each Armadillo rug is exquisite, exuding a nuance of colour, texture and composition that lends our range its breadth and timelessness.
We make software for people who make things.
If you’ve ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you’ve experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our software. With Autodesk, you have the power to make anything.
Bay Area Made is dedicated to showcasing products made in the Bay Area and the people who create them. Our platform highlights the richness and diversity of our region and
Inspire a more creative way of living through good design that’s good to everyone.
Based in San Francisco, California, Box Clever is an award-winning design agency specializing in creating thoughtful consumer experiences that surprise and delight. The Box Clever team works with large and small companies alike on a wide range of projects including hardware design, brand experiences, consumer electronics, furniture, lighting, and more
Catharine Clark Gallery exhibits contemporary art in all disciplines. In response to each exhibition, the gallery curates changing presentations of video and time-based genres within a dedicated media room.
A Design and Innovation Agency. Card79 gives form to future states by converging strategy, brand, and design. We excel in technical complexity, finding advantage for industry leaders in robotics, wearables, and all things digital, while partnering with startups to turn visionary technologies into beloved products.
Climate Designers is the global hub for designers and creative professionals from all industries, committed to using our creative skills for climate action.
We are a venture firm built by design
We invest in paradigm shifts in culture and technology—and partner with leading founders who leverage design to lead the change.
Double Union is a space for your projects. Sewing, programming, electronics, screenprinting, fiber arts of all kinds, and zine making. Double Union is a supportive community for feminist activism. We
At the Stanford d.school, we believe everyone has the capacity to be creative. We build on methods from across the field of design to create learning experiences that help people
We are a design agency with deep expertise in industrial design, branding, packaging design, UI/UX, and strategy. Collaboration is what sets us apart from all other creative agencies. We enlist your team, you enlist ours, and together we create.
The Erica Tanov Design Studio and Showroom is a Berkeley-based multidisciplinary design space that presents Erica’s complete vision and ethos of relaxed luxury.
Eventbrite is a global self-service ticketing platform for live experiences that allows anyone to create, share, find and attend events that fuel their passions and enrich their lives.
Your Favorite independent bookstore meets an art lounge with a whiskey bar atmosphere. Music, art, multiples, gifts, and books.
We are a landscape architecture and urban design collaborative, based in San Francisco. We work with city makers, communities and other visionaries to realize evocative and appropriate concepts, designed and constructed to ensure social vitality and integrity.
frog is a leading global creative consultancy, part of Capgemini Invent. Partnering with passionate leaders and visionary entrepreneurs, we apply creativity, strategy, design and data to re-invent businesses, drive growth and orchestrate customer centric transformation.
Together we strive to shape a regenerative future that is both sustainable and inclusive for businesses, people and planet.
Fyrn is a design and build company that combines classic principles of woodworking with modern manufacturing techniques to create furniture that defines The New Shape of Craft — elegant, essential pieces that fit quietly in any space.
Founded by the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco chapter to advance public interest in the design arts, the Center for Architecture + Design celebrates the larger diverse design community and is a collaborative environment where design organizations and affiliates share not only space, but ideas.
Creativity Explored (1983–2023) is a studio-based collective in San Francisco that partners with people with developmental disabilities to celebrate and nurture the creative potential in all of us. Founded in 1983 by a psychologist and an artist, CE has facilitated the careers of hundreds of neurodiverse artists and serves as a model in the field of art and disability worldwide.
At Gantri, we believe in creator-led design. By harnessing digital manufacturing technologies and embracing unique storytelling, we’re generating an opportunity for creators to see their designs come to life.
We’re blazing a new trail for premium lighting by skipping the tradeoff between design and price, form and function, quality and sustainability. The modern consumer deserves great design without compromise and at Gantri, we’re making that a reality.
We are a national interdisciplinary design firm rooted in architecture and engineering. We believe that the best design results from deep insight into the people and passions that animate each unique environment.
IDO empowers the next generation of innovators. We believe the world’s most complex problems require diversity of thought. We introduce this concept one project at a time.
Our mission is to foster curiosity, promote creativity, and build self-confidence in youth from marginalized communities through design education.
Industrial Designers Society of America San Francisco Chapter
IBM integrates technology and expertise, providing infrastructure, software, and consulting services for clients as they pursue the digital transformation of the world’s mission-critical businesses.
IDEO is a design company known for its human-centered, interdisciplinary approach. As early leaders in the practice of design thinking, we create positive impact through design by applying our creative mindsets and skills, and by teaching others to do the same.
We’re not an agency. We’re a collective. Informal members are independent, exceptionally good at what they do, and consummate professionals.
John Clarke Architects, based in Sausalito since 2003, is a full-service architecture and design firm with custom residential and commercial retail clients throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Utilizing our strong design expertise and comprehensive understanding of construction, we are able to transform our clients’ wish lists into programs, and eventually, into beautifully constructed buildings and spaces.
Letterform Archive is a nonprofit center for inspiration, education, and community. We’re open to all who love letters.
We’re a West Coast women-led Industrial Design shop, on a mission to positively influence and improve society through smart, thoughtful and timeless design.
We believe a variety of voices promotes smarter creative thinking, leading to better innovation.
Seasoned Product and Design Executive with over 16 years of expertise in steering cross-functional product teams towards the creation of impactful UX solutions.
MMclay is a woman-owned handmade tableware business located in the popular Hayes Valley neighborhood in San Francisco. Owned and operated by ceramic designer MaryMar Keenan, MMclay has an enormous passion to keep art alive in one of the nation’s most expensive cities, producing over 1500 pieces of pottery a month for restaurants and homes internationally.
Multistudio is the evolution of Gould Evans. Our new identity captures the multiple ways we design to uncover possibilities and engage the world.
Since its founding in 1974, the studio has blossomed from a humble vision of two University of Kansas classmates into a socially-engaged design collective pushing the edge of service-based practice.
The Museum of Craft and Design (MCD) makes creativity accessible to everyone. MCD, a non-collecting institution, is the only museum in SF devoted to craft and design. Founded in 2004, MCD showcases designers, makers and artists through an exciting and distinctive series of craft and design-focused exhibitions and public programs.
We create objects that support a healthier relationship with time. Our products are delightfully tactile and offer an alternative to the sea of screens that consume our days.
Our goal is to make time tangible, whether we’re reflecting on the past, staying present, or planning for the future. To achieve this vision, we build repairable, durable objects that can withstand the test of time.
We thrive on partnering with our customers to realize their vision of the perfect space. Representing over 50 of the most compelling Scandinavian design brands, our immersive showroom and industry
Founded in 1995, OBE developed its experiential capabilities by creating dynamic campaigns for the action sports and music industries.
We accelerate new growth ideas from concept, through design and development to commercial success. And we revitalise organisations with the leadership, culture, systems and processes to make innovation a reality.
PeopleSpace brings cutting-edge thinking and research into the real world, elevating the total customer experience.
Pinckney Clay is a woman owned and artist run ceramic art studio in Bernal Heights. Our teaching artists are devoted to help you create a sense of creative flow.
Problem Library is supporting a renaissance toward beauty, goodness, and truth in education, art, and cultural infrastructure.
InteriorDesign Services. Functional, flawless and forward-thinking design for your commercial or residential space.
The School of Design at SFSU serves a diverse body of students in the areas of Industrial Design and Visual Communication Design at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. We emphasize design process as a means of problem-solving and social equity. Our classes help students to build the technical, conceptual, critical, and collaborative skills required in design professions.
The mission of the global Service Design Network is to continuously push the boundaries of the practice of service design by expanding awareness of its value and application of its mindset across multiple domains. Service design is uniquely equipped to positively impact the challenges of today and tomorrow.
Sköna is a B2B creative agency specializing in marketing, branding, and design for innovative tech companies. Founded 20 years ago in Silicon Valley and with an office in Stockholm, we provide the perfect blend of Silicon Valley high-tech expertise and Scandinavian sensibility to help B2B companies evolve into brave B2B brands.
Speculative Futures San Francisco is a group 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.
REGENERATIVE STRATEGY & DESIGN FOR CONSCIOUS LEADERS. We help people shift paradigms. We specialize in the intersection of business strategy, human development, and the built environment.
Design professionals, collectors, and casual admirers are welcome to explore this expansive, multi-dimensional space and the rigorously curated collection of hard-to-find, limited edition, and one-of-a-kind contemporary art and design it showcases.
Enduring architecture for inspired living.
Whipsaw, under the leadership of design visionary Dan Harden, is a highly acclaimed strategy, industrial design, digital design, and engineering consulting firm.
Women in Leadership and Design (WILD) is an initiative of AIGA San Francisco. Our mission is to amplify women and non-binary designers’ collective power and visibility. We mobilize and energize impact in design leadership by focusing our work on connecting, elevating, sharing, and educating designers in our community. Often, we do this through events like group meals, speaker series, workshops, meetups, and more. We exist to redesign leadership, together.
Swissnex San Francisco is part of a global network for international collaboration located at Pier 17. We connect people and ideas from Switzerland and North America, and foster exchange between the regions.