Thu June 7, 2018
San Francisco Design Week Opening Night Reception + Two-Day Program at The Design Hub
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WHAT: SAN FRANCISCO DESIGN WEEK (SFDW) kicks off with a special OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION. SFDW celebrates and promotes the essential week-long city-wide festival that showcases the unique intersection of ideas, design, business & entrepreneurism that makes the Bay Area the birthplace of the future.
The opening night reception launches a week-long event celebrating the region’s graphic arts, fashion, product, user interface, interior design and architecture, and food industries. Experience a designer’s life through interactive exhibits and installations, and musical entertainment by Cali&Co.
WHEN:
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION:
THURSDAY, JUNE 7
PRESS PREVIEW 5:00PM to 6:30PM:
5:30PM Champagne toast by AIGA Executive Director Dawn Zidonis, and announcement of the first SFDW Design Award winners at the Opening Awards Exhibition. Entries will be judged by a jury composed of leading Bay Area design professionals:
Debuting SF Design Week Awards: "Where Innovation Meets Social Responsibility"
https://2018.sfdesignweek.org/awards/
Leaders of the design community will join to remark upon SFDW, including SF Design Week Advisors: Vas Kiniris, founder of Zinc Details and executive. director of the San Francisco Council District of Merchant Associations; Designer Eche Martinez, founder of design firm Eche; Diane Dorrans Saeks, best-selling design author; editor, C Magazine; contributing editor, Hearst Design Group; and founder of The Style Saloniste blog.
6:30PM to 9:30PM
Public reception
ADMISSION: Event Tickets & Info: $25-65 General Admission Opening Night Reception. $150 VIP tickets + perks Opening Night Reception tickets; $25 student admission. Other Design Week event tickets vary by event, from FREE to $$
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sf-design-week-opening-night-2018-a-party-on-the-waterfront-tickets-39996962993
TWO-DAY PROGRAMMING AT THE DESIGN HUB:
THURSDAY, JUNE 7 and FRIDAY, JUNE 8
From 9AM to 6PM
WHERE: PIER 27, The Embarcadero, San Francisco, Calif.
SF DESIGN WEEK Rest of the Week Events
June 7 - 15, 2018
At various locations around the Bay Area.
http://2018.sfdesignweek.org/category/?s&events
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION HIGHLIGHTS: Exhibits, and Installations:
Airbnb is creating a custom installation environment aligned with this years theme, a social responsibility initiative "Start Here".
Philanthropost-- A highly interactive exhibit that’s part sculpture and part design storytelling outpost imagined and created by Britelite Immersive. Product and architectural design can facilitate important conversations and Philanthropost seeks to create a meeting point where groups using design to impact the community of the Greater Bay Area for good can virtually demonstrate their initiatives. Visitors to the exhibit will have the opportunity to explore the stories and fund the projects in order to make them happen.
Artists' installation: Brian Singer, P Phanichant, and Chloe Bensahel.
International Exhibits
Italy and Poland
HUB EVENTS (Panel Discussions, Presentations). Highlights:
Future Foods, an ecosystem lab of food innovation, food designers, and food technologies
Food Innovation is a Cooperative (Design) Effort and Global Food Trends
Design Thinking and Food Innovation expert, Matteo Vignoli, co-founder of the Future Food Institute, will take us through the human-centered innovation process in the food industry.
From Aviation to Autonomous Mobility: A thought-provoking discussion on the intersection of trust and autonomous mobility and how to apply a passenger-centric approach to self-driving cars.
Designing Wearables for Physical Culture: Poland-based sports equipment design expert Dorota Kabala talks about challenges in designing for sports, including a 3-D printed hand for horse riding and dance.
From Films to Your Living Room: How Anki Approached Character Development and Animation of a Physical Robot: Animated character specialists Dei Gaztelumendi and Mooly Segal from Anki discuss key learnings from their work around the company’s best-selling robot, Cozmo.
REST OF THE WEEK EVENTS: Visit SFDW at http://2018.sfdesignweek.org/category/?s&events for a full listing of events hosted by studios across the San Francisco Bay Area region. Highlights include: Design Culture at Google; Designing for Blockchain: UX Challenges & Beyond; Inside Top Interior Designers’ Studios; Heath Ceramics "Nature Talk" Discussion and Erica Tanov Book Event; TEALEAVES "Color In Sight" Film Screening & Panel Discussion on Color Strategy.
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The opening night reception launches a week-long event celebrating the region’s graphic arts, fashion, product, user interface, interior design and architecture, and food industries. Experience a designer’s life through interactive exhibits and installations, and musical entertainment by Cali&Co.
WHEN:
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION:
THURSDAY, JUNE 7
PRESS PREVIEW 5:00PM to 6:30PM:
5:30PM Champagne toast by AIGA Executive Director Dawn Zidonis, and announcement of the first SFDW Design Award winners at the Opening Awards Exhibition. Entries will be judged by a jury composed of leading Bay Area design professionals:
Debuting SF Design Week Awards: "Where Innovation Meets Social Responsibility"
https://2018.sfdesignweek.org/awards/
Leaders of the design community will join to remark upon SFDW, including SF Design Week Advisors: Vas Kiniris, founder of Zinc Details and executive. director of the San Francisco Council District of Merchant Associations; Designer Eche Martinez, founder of design firm Eche; Diane Dorrans Saeks, best-selling design author; editor, C Magazine; contributing editor, Hearst Design Group; and founder of The Style Saloniste blog.
6:30PM to 9:30PM
Public reception
ADMISSION: Event Tickets & Info: $25-65 General Admission Opening Night Reception. $150 VIP tickets + perks Opening Night Reception tickets; $25 student admission. Other Design Week event tickets vary by event, from FREE to $$
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sf-design-week-opening-night-2018-a-party-on-the-waterfront-tickets-39996962993
TWO-DAY PROGRAMMING AT THE DESIGN HUB:
THURSDAY, JUNE 7 and FRIDAY, JUNE 8
From 9AM to 6PM
WHERE: PIER 27, The Embarcadero, San Francisco, Calif.
SF DESIGN WEEK Rest of the Week Events
June 7 - 15, 2018
At various locations around the Bay Area.
http://2018.sfdesignweek.org/category/?s&events
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION HIGHLIGHTS: Exhibits, and Installations:
Airbnb is creating a custom installation environment aligned with this years theme, a social responsibility initiative "Start Here".
Philanthropost-- A highly interactive exhibit that’s part sculpture and part design storytelling outpost imagined and created by Britelite Immersive. Product and architectural design can facilitate important conversations and Philanthropost seeks to create a meeting point where groups using design to impact the community of the Greater Bay Area for good can virtually demonstrate their initiatives. Visitors to the exhibit will have the opportunity to explore the stories and fund the projects in order to make them happen.
Artists' installation: Brian Singer, P Phanichant, and Chloe Bensahel.
International Exhibits
Italy and Poland
HUB EVENTS (Panel Discussions, Presentations). Highlights:
Future Foods, an ecosystem lab of food innovation, food designers, and food technologies
Food Innovation is a Cooperative (Design) Effort and Global Food Trends
Design Thinking and Food Innovation expert, Matteo Vignoli, co-founder of the Future Food Institute, will take us through the human-centered innovation process in the food industry.
From Aviation to Autonomous Mobility: A thought-provoking discussion on the intersection of trust and autonomous mobility and how to apply a passenger-centric approach to self-driving cars.
Designing Wearables for Physical Culture: Poland-based sports equipment design expert Dorota Kabala talks about challenges in designing for sports, including a 3-D printed hand for horse riding and dance.
From Films to Your Living Room: How Anki Approached Character Development and Animation of a Physical Robot: Animated character specialists Dei Gaztelumendi and Mooly Segal from Anki discuss key learnings from their work around the company’s best-selling robot, Cozmo.
REST OF THE WEEK EVENTS: Visit SFDW at http://2018.sfdesignweek.org/category/?s&events for a full listing of events hosted by studios across the San Francisco Bay Area region. Highlights include: Design Culture at Google; Designing for Blockchain: UX Challenges & Beyond; Inside Top Interior Designers’ Studios; Heath Ceramics "Nature Talk" Discussion and Erica Tanov Book Event; TEALEAVES "Color In Sight" Film Screening & Panel Discussion on Color Strategy.
WHAT: SAN FRANCISCO DESIGN WEEK (SFDW) kicks off with a special OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION. SFDW celebrates and promotes the essential week-long city-wide festival that showcases the unique intersection of ideas, design, business & entrepreneurism that makes the Bay Area the birthplace of the future.
The opening night reception launches a week-long event celebrating the region’s graphic arts, fashion, product, user interface, interior design and architecture, and food industries. Experience a designer’s life through interactive exhibits and installations, and musical entertainment by Cali&Co.
WHEN:
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION:
THURSDAY, JUNE 7
PRESS PREVIEW 5:00PM to 6:30PM:
5:30PM Champagne toast by AIGA Executive Director Dawn Zidonis, and announcement of the first SFDW Design Award winners at the Opening Awards Exhibition. Entries will be judged by a jury composed of leading Bay Area design professionals:
Debuting SF Design Week Awards: "Where Innovation Meets Social Responsibility"
https://2018.sfdesignweek.org/awards/
Leaders of the design community will join to remark upon SFDW, including SF Design Week Advisors: Vas Kiniris, founder of Zinc Details and executive. director of the San Francisco Council District of Merchant Associations; Designer Eche Martinez, founder of design firm Eche; Diane Dorrans Saeks, best-selling design author; editor, C Magazine; contributing editor, Hearst Design Group; and founder of The Style Saloniste blog.
6:30PM to 9:30PM
Public reception
ADMISSION: Event Tickets & Info: $25-65 General Admission Opening Night Reception. $150 VIP tickets + perks Opening Night Reception tickets; $25 student admission. Other Design Week event tickets vary by event, from FREE to $$
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sf-design-week-opening-night-2018-a-party-on-the-waterfront-tickets-39996962993
TWO-DAY PROGRAMMING AT THE DESIGN HUB:
THURSDAY, JUNE 7 and FRIDAY, JUNE 8
From 9AM to 6PM
WHERE: PIER 27, The Embarcadero, San Francisco, Calif.
SF DESIGN WEEK Rest of the Week Events
June 7 - 15, 2018
At various locations around the Bay Area.
http://2018.sfdesignweek.org/category/?s&events
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION HIGHLIGHTS: Exhibits, and Installations:
Airbnb is creating a custom installation environment aligned with this years theme, a social responsibility initiative "Start Here".
Philanthropost-- A highly interactive exhibit that’s part sculpture and part design storytelling outpost imagined and created by Britelite Immersive. Product and architectural design can facilitate important conversations and Philanthropost seeks to create a meeting point where groups using design to impact the community of the Greater Bay Area for good can virtually demonstrate their initiatives. Visitors to the exhibit will have the opportunity to explore the stories and fund the projects in order to make them happen.
Artists' installation: Brian Singer, P Phanichant, and Chloe Bensahel.
International Exhibits
Italy and Poland
HUB EVENTS (Panel Discussions, Presentations). Highlights:
Future Foods, an ecosystem lab of food innovation, food designers, and food technologies
Food Innovation is a Cooperative (Design) Effort and Global Food Trends
Design Thinking and Food Innovation expert, Matteo Vignoli, co-founder of the Future Food Institute, will take us through the human-centered innovation process in the food industry.
From Aviation to Autonomous Mobility: A thought-provoking discussion on the intersection of trust and autonomous mobility and how to apply a passenger-centric approach to self-driving cars.
Designing Wearables for Physical Culture: Poland-based sports equipment design expert Dorota Kabala talks about challenges in designing for sports, including a 3-D printed hand for horse riding and dance.
From Films to Your Living Room: How Anki Approached Character Development and Animation of a Physical Robot: Animated character specialists Dei Gaztelumendi and Mooly Segal from Anki discuss key learnings from their work around the company’s best-selling robot, Cozmo.
REST OF THE WEEK EVENTS: Visit SFDW at http://2018.sfdesignweek.org/category/?s&events for a full listing of events hosted by studios across the San Francisco Bay Area region. Highlights include: Design Culture at Google; Designing for Blockchain: UX Challenges & Beyond; Inside Top Interior Designers’ Studios; Heath Ceramics "Nature Talk" Discussion and Erica Tanov Book Event; TEALEAVES "Color In Sight" Film Screening & Panel Discussion on Color Strategy.
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The opening night reception launches a week-long event celebrating the region’s graphic arts, fashion, product, user interface, interior design and architecture, and food industries. Experience a designer’s life through interactive exhibits and installations, and musical entertainment by Cali&Co.
WHEN:
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION:
THURSDAY, JUNE 7
PRESS PREVIEW 5:00PM to 6:30PM:
5:30PM Champagne toast by AIGA Executive Director Dawn Zidonis, and announcement of the first SFDW Design Award winners at the Opening Awards Exhibition. Entries will be judged by a jury composed of leading Bay Area design professionals:
Debuting SF Design Week Awards: "Where Innovation Meets Social Responsibility"
https://2018.sfdesignweek.org/awards/
Leaders of the design community will join to remark upon SFDW, including SF Design Week Advisors: Vas Kiniris, founder of Zinc Details and executive. director of the San Francisco Council District of Merchant Associations; Designer Eche Martinez, founder of design firm Eche; Diane Dorrans Saeks, best-selling design author; editor, C Magazine; contributing editor, Hearst Design Group; and founder of The Style Saloniste blog.
6:30PM to 9:30PM
Public reception
ADMISSION: Event Tickets & Info: $25-65 General Admission Opening Night Reception. $150 VIP tickets + perks Opening Night Reception tickets; $25 student admission. Other Design Week event tickets vary by event, from FREE to $$
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sf-design-week-opening-night-2018-a-party-on-the-waterfront-tickets-39996962993
TWO-DAY PROGRAMMING AT THE DESIGN HUB:
THURSDAY, JUNE 7 and FRIDAY, JUNE 8
From 9AM to 6PM
WHERE: PIER 27, The Embarcadero, San Francisco, Calif.
SF DESIGN WEEK Rest of the Week Events
June 7 - 15, 2018
At various locations around the Bay Area.
http://2018.sfdesignweek.org/category/?s&events
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION HIGHLIGHTS: Exhibits, and Installations:
Airbnb is creating a custom installation environment aligned with this years theme, a social responsibility initiative "Start Here".
Philanthropost-- A highly interactive exhibit that’s part sculpture and part design storytelling outpost imagined and created by Britelite Immersive. Product and architectural design can facilitate important conversations and Philanthropost seeks to create a meeting point where groups using design to impact the community of the Greater Bay Area for good can virtually demonstrate their initiatives. Visitors to the exhibit will have the opportunity to explore the stories and fund the projects in order to make them happen.
Artists' installation: Brian Singer, P Phanichant, and Chloe Bensahel.
International Exhibits
Italy and Poland
HUB EVENTS (Panel Discussions, Presentations). Highlights:
Future Foods, an ecosystem lab of food innovation, food designers, and food technologies
Food Innovation is a Cooperative (Design) Effort and Global Food Trends
Design Thinking and Food Innovation expert, Matteo Vignoli, co-founder of the Future Food Institute, will take us through the human-centered innovation process in the food industry.
From Aviation to Autonomous Mobility: A thought-provoking discussion on the intersection of trust and autonomous mobility and how to apply a passenger-centric approach to self-driving cars.
Designing Wearables for Physical Culture: Poland-based sports equipment design expert Dorota Kabala talks about challenges in designing for sports, including a 3-D printed hand for horse riding and dance.
From Films to Your Living Room: How Anki Approached Character Development and Animation of a Physical Robot: Animated character specialists Dei Gaztelumendi and Mooly Segal from Anki discuss key learnings from their work around the company’s best-selling robot, Cozmo.
REST OF THE WEEK EVENTS: Visit SFDW at http://2018.sfdesignweek.org/category/?s&events for a full listing of events hosted by studios across the San Francisco Bay Area region. Highlights include: Design Culture at Google; Designing for Blockchain: UX Challenges & Beyond; Inside Top Interior Designers’ Studios; Heath Ceramics "Nature Talk" Discussion and Erica Tanov Book Event; TEALEAVES "Color In Sight" Film Screening & Panel Discussion on Color Strategy.
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