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 after-hours events, workshops, and social hours. Every guest arrives with a hand-sized piece of art they’ve made. A sketch, a poem, a tiny ceramic, a

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

A candid evening with our Head of Design and an AI-native designer on how every designer at Gamma now ships prototypes from Claude Code. We’ll walk through the skills we’ve written, the connectors we rely on, how we gather context before touching a pixel, what a real prompting loop looks like, and how design, engineering,

Join Mokume Design Studio founder and principal interior designer, Jennifer Downing, in conversation with Dr. Hemalee Patel, DO (Lifestyle & Internal Medicine), for a science-backed panel on how our design decisions, behaviors and built environments shape physical and mental health. The panel will cover wellness-driven design strategies around circadian rhythm-responsive environments, dedicated wellness zones, and

This conversation between acclaimed interior designer Noz Nozawa, and Pete Rodway, Snr. Partner of Compass, explores how design can become a lens for understanding personal identity. Reflecting on growing up within an American context while holding a connection to Japanese ancestry, Nozawa considers how ideas such as restraint, craft, material sensitivity, and discipline can be