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

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

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

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 on artist JB Blunk, whose work with raw, salvaged materials represents an innate expression of, and conversation with, nature, often inspired by his surroundings in

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 know what I’m talking about. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn from an ex-Dropbox, award-winning product designer (Kathy Wang) how to prompt like a designer.

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 future of design for you to challenge, debunk or embrace. They draw on two workshops they’ve led for the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and

***This event has been cancelled due to unforseen circumstances*** ***Current ticket holders will be refunded***   When capable design tools are in more hands and every product looks the part, visual quality stops being a differentiator — so how do customers tell real design from its imitation? This talk explores what separates the products people

Join us at Peak Design’s HQ in the historic American Industrial Center for a night celebrating San Francisco’s rich bag design legacy. Hear directly from local designers in a panel discussion, connect with fellow carry obsessives, and check out a community show-and-tell of favorite bags. A rare chance to gather the Bay Area’s bag design

The Career Prototype allows participants to take a deeper look into who we are and validates or challenges our career paths.  Start by hearing from two design founders, Jeanette Numbers of Nova and Nichole Rouillac of level, and their take on the importance of career adaptability. The crowd will participate in a round of A/B

Join us at the Erica Tanov Atelier in Berkeley for an evening of conversation, collaboration, and art. This gathering brings together two East Bay design studios with over a decade of creative partnership between them, and with more ahead. Creative Growth, an Oakland-based arts organization serving artists with developmental disabilities, has built thoughtful relationships with