Join us during SF Design Week for an exclusive tour of Northern California’s only Case Study House, a 1962 mid-century modern masterpiece nestled in San Rafael. This iconic architectural gem, recently featured on PBS, represents a pivotal moment in American design history. The home’s innovative approach to space, materials, and indoor-outdoor living continues to influence contemporary architecture more

Join us for a rare afternoon inside two of San Francisco’s most accomplished and internationally admired studios — Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects and BAMO — in the city’s SoMa district. This studio visit is a private, structured presentation by the firm’s principals and staff, with full access to studios, works in progress, and the

We Are Stories is a public storytelling event based on the idea that we, people, are more than everything we think we are; we are stories. Complex, layered, unmatched, rich in content, ever-continuous, and interconnected. The event is a public process of filling in a human-scale large accordion book that opens in various directions and

Join us during SF Design Week for an exclusive tour of Northern California’s only Case Study House, a 1962 mid-century modern masterpiece nestled in San Rafael. This iconic architectural gem, recently featured on PBS, represents a pivotal moment in American design history. The home’s innovative approach to space, materials, and indoor-outdoor living continues to influence contemporary architecture more

Global online community and local meetup group celebrating the motion graphics industry are teaming up to host a special event — a live collaboration where local artists are challenged to animate on the fly in front of a live audience. The Challenge*: 5 participants are given a random prompt with 5 minutes to animate supplied

Women in Design SF (WID) is teaming up with Gantri to host our third annual showcase at SF Design Week. The showcase will exhibit works from women, nonbinary, and gender-expansive designers from around the Bay Area. The show will include a range of creative approaches and reflections from each designer on her multitudes—the many identities

The technology that reads electrical signals from the brain has quietly moved out of hospitals and into everyday life. What to do with that data (who holds it, who benefits from it, what it reveals about us) remains genuinely unsettled. The Thought Experiment lives inside the gap between what the technology can do and what

Join us for a glimpse inside the JB Blunk Estate and Blunk Space in this lecture by Mariah Nielson, Blunk’s daughter, curator, and design historian.  We’ll learn about Mariah’s research

Every startup’s product looks like it was designed by the same depressed robot 🙄 Minimalist. Purple gradient buttons. A hero section that says “The future of [blank] is here.” You

The job description for “designer” is being rewritten in real time by AI. So who’s writing yours? In this hands-on workshop, Elizabeth Glenewinkel and Justin Rheinfrank pose provocations on the