Ciel Creative Space turned 7 this year and we’re celebrating the only way we know how: by opening our doors and letting creativity take over. This isn’t your typical open house. It’s a choose-your-own-adventure through a series of immersive studio activations, each one offering a different perspective on what’s possible within our walls. From thought-provoking

What is a robot? Visions of robots span a wide spectrum: from helpful partners that take on tedious or undesirable tasks, to unsettling replacements that threaten human roles altogether. Headlines in the media and conversations at tech conferences make it clear that robotic technologies are advancing at an unprecedented pace and that robots are here

Please join us at Sköna HQ for a happy hour open to all. In honor of this year’s theme, Multitudes, we’re exploring how the diversity and plurality of our Bay Area home informs creativity and expression through a collaborative collage wall. We’re inviting designers, creatives, and the just plain curious to add to the collage

Celebrate the multitudes we all contain at Creativity Explored, a pioneering progressive art studio that partners with artists with developmental disabilities. As part of San Francisco Design Week, join us for a lively happy hour and open studio mixer in our award-winning studio space, located in the heart of the Mission District. This year’s theme,

Brainy Bold is a multidisciplinary design studio and publishing project that treats design as a model for cognition-howpeople form meaning, values, identity through systems. This event presents a curated installation of printed matter, visual grids, garments, and conceptual frameworks developed through Brainy Bold’s ongoing curriculum-based practice, including Chemical Equilibrium, Symbolic Intelligence, and Axiotic Theory. Together,

From pigments and patterns to bespoke textiles, expierence the craft of hand printing at Cloth Edition Printshop. Join textile designer Anne Kirk and printer Ryan Harrison for a discussion exploring traditional hand printed textiles, how designers work with master craftspeople and the value of handprinted versus digital textile designs. Explore our hand printing facility, see

At Unbox, we operate at the intersection of creativity and commercialization, partnering with startups and disruptors to bring market-ready solutions to life.  Join us at the Unbox studio for our second Studio Crawl during San Francisco Design Week. Located in SoMa, we’re surrounded by some of the city’s top creative agencies.  Connect with the community,

Step inside Whipsaw’s Potrero Hill studio for SF Design Week — come see where the ideas happen. Explore a light-filled, industrial-chic space, browse our ever-growing product gallery and meet the team. It’s going to be a good one. See you there!

Get the first look at ORCA’s new showroom in the Dogpatch. Meet with ORCA’s founder and principal, Molly Sedlacek and see our materials in person. ORCA is a female-founded landscape design studio based in Los Angeles and San Francisco. We use plants and materials in their rawest form to re/connect humans to the earth.