The Seattle Design Festival (SDF) is entirely a product of the people that are involved in it. It is planned by a core group of dedicated volunteers, who work to shape the Festival each year. Together, they develop our annual call for proposals to connect communities and unleash the design thinker in everyone to illuminate…
This year’s festival theme, EMERGE, seeks to inspire action, addressing the consequences of the pandemic to nurture new possibilities. Emerging is a process of adaptation, of transforming the way we interact, collaborate, and create. How can community-driven design strategies carry us forward? How will we emerge better? This year’s festival will happen exclusively outside through…
This year, Design in Public will host its fifth benefit breakfast! An online celebration bringing together and acknowledging the community of designers and enthusiasts who support our ongoing work to highlight all the ways that design has a powerful impact in our lives. We have important work to do, building vibrant connections between designers…
Awaken your creative spirit and get ready for the 2021 Seattle Design Festival! Join the Seattle Design Festival planning committee and Surya Vanka, Founder & Chief Designer at AUTHENTIC DESIGN and longtime friend of the Festival, for the Design Jam, a Thinkercyze Live event, THIS SATURDAY April 10 at 10am PT. Explore your creative process…
Not sure what to propose for the 2021 Seattle Design Festival? Check out these examples of effective Built Installations from previous years, plus precedents of this year’s new offering — Pop-up Experiences! This is by no means an exhaustive list of things that have worked — it’s merely a sampling. We invite problem solvers, innovators,…
The Seattle Design Festival (SDF) is excited to announce that we have been awarded a Grant for Arts Project from the National Endowment of the Arts. Grants for Arts Projects is the National Endowment for the Arts’ principal grants program for organizations based in the United States, which supports arts projects that use the arts…