New tools don’t just speed up old work. In the right hands, they push boundaries and open a door to what didn’t exist before. Stranger, sharper, more specific. More human,

You have a life that, on paper, is working. Work is going pretty good. You have something that looks, from the outside, like the version of success people aim at. But something feels

The (un)Conscious Creative A blend of plenary and small-group conversations invites participants into deeply engaged, unguarded, and intentional provocations—designed to explore the creator behind the creator. The experience begins at

Art Swap: Celebrating Multitudes is a co-created gallery and art-trading happy hour from Coqtail Hour, the Bay Area’s new pop-up creative community built around bringing artists and creatives together through

Calling all design-curious, AI-curious, and anyone who has wanted to see what designing an intelligent system actually looks like, end to end. Spend 90 minutes at California College of the Arts workshopping the full arc of designing an AI agent. In three activities — Enact, Author, Deploy — small groups of 3–6 bodystorm a scenario,

As AI evolves, human skills like judgment, creativity, and clarity of intent are more critical than ever. This discussion explores how designers are becoming “AI fluent,” treating models as strategic partners to shape tone and character with the same precision once reserved for grid systems. While AI can generate a thousand variations, human taste remains

Join us during San Francisco Design Week for cocktails, conversation, reflection, and reconnection at California College of the Arts.  Alumni, faculty, staff, and friends are invited to reconnect, share stories, and consider what it means to carry a CCA creative education into the world. Throughout the evening, guests are invited to “Call the Archive,” an

Have you mastered the windmill shot (or at least the confident strut to the first tee)? Come hang for the ultimate fresh-air SFDW meetup at Stagecoach Greens Mini-Golf, a playful, story-driven course custom-designed and fabricated by One Hat One Hand. We’ll be posted up in the Spark Gardens cabanas at SPARK Social SF for a

Enter the world of the great mid-century modern designer Niels Diffrient. Longtime collaborator of Henry Dreyfuss, Eero Saarinen and Marco Zanuso, Diffrient was a lead figure in the field of ergonomics. Artist and designer Elijah Ezralow’s “Chair Exploded” explores a new perspective on the internal design of Humanscale seating. Suspended chair parts are deconstructed to

Teknion is pleased to host artist Alicia Escott during SF Design Week. Alicia, in conversation with Marthine Satris, will speak about their interdisciplinary art practice and her ongoing collaboration with wildflower seeds, Metabolic Rifts and Domestic Interiors. Event schedule: – 5p Showroom is open for drinks and small bites – 6p Artist talk by Alicia