Seattle Design Festival

SDF 2024 advanced our mission through... 🎨 Celebrating Interdisciplinary Design: We created professional and personal connections within our community. The SDF Mixers throughout the year provided space for designers to connect. 🌲 Sustainability Commitment: 100% of our built installation teams committed to the reuse or repurposing of the materials used in their designs, ensuring that the Festival can inspire important design conversations beyond SDF 2024. 🍎 Supporting the Next Generation of Designers: SDF 2024 welcomed more first-time partners than ever, bringing fresh voices to the design conversation. Collaborations with ACE Mentor and Urban Artworks amplified youth creativity, while our partnership with the UW FAab Lab gives SDF: WHAT IF? materials a second life, aiding university student projects. Learn more about we were able to achieve during SDF 2024: https://ow.ly/BbUG50TJ6oR

SSDF 2024 engaged more first-time partners than ever before! Our partnerships with ACE Mentor and Urban ArtWorks brought youth designers into the Festival, providing a space for their creative voices. In addition, our partnership with the UW Fab Lab will provide university students with material resources to bring their future designs to life!

LMN Architects's The Shop is a hub for making, collaboration, and community, which made it the perfect venue to host our SDF Closing Party. The party's silent auction featured unique items and artworks from local designers and organizations, helping us raise over $2000 to offset SDF entry fees for next year's nonprofit and emerging professional partners 🥳 Stop by The Shop during Pioneer Square Art Walk this Thursday, Oct 3rd for their interactive social collage and live music event! Come through to make art and new friends!

Check out our interview with the SDF team behind Story House! https://lnkd.in/gncaWerH Yirim Seck, Wa Na Wari, and Architects Without Borders Seattle teamed up to create their installation for the 2024 Festival. Inside this tiny home, recorded interviews are displayed - personal stories of those who have experienced being unhoused and their resilience throughout it. Thank you to Crescent Builds for documenting their construction of this installation! #seattledesignfestival

The SDF Mixers, offered both this past spring and summer, provided space for designers to connect. We're excited to see how these connections inspire new collaborations, push creative thinking, and advance the work of the Seattle design community! #seattledesignfestival

100% of our built installation teams committed to the reuse or repurposing of the materials used in their designs. 🥳🌲This commitment helps ensure that the Festival can inspire important design conversations that will continue beyond SDF 2024. We especially wanna shout out our Partners who donated materials to the UW Fab Lab, which will provide university students with material resources to bring their designs to life! - SCB | Collaborative Facade - Weber Thompson | Timbre - Samantha Barberio, Delaney Belfie, Valeria Edwards of Bellevue College | Reflection - A Study on Third Places - Olson Kundig and Dowbuilt | Between Baleen - Keerthana Venugopalan | Oli - Fostering Human Connections

ICYMI we've uploaded several interviews with Festival Partners on their SDF 2024 installations and experiences. Check it out right now on our YouTube channel! https://lnkd.in/gZcteyS5

2024 was the year we asked WHAT IF? SDF is community-generated and community-funded. Together, we not only empowered everyone to engage in design discussions— we inspired action that moves these discussions toward meaningful change. Thank you to everyone who attended, partnered, volunteered, and otherwise joined us in making the 2024 #seattledesignfestival a resounding success! SDF 2024 at a Glance 👀 7400+ Attendees 6 days of Festival programming + 6 mixers throughout the year! 34 Festival Sponsors 60 Design Teams 340+ local and national designers 20 design disciplines 79 Festival Programs 34 Built Installations 20 Pop Up Experiences 9 Mainstage Programs 7 Mixers/Social Events 9 Virtual Mainstage Programs 29 Press Mentions in 18 Media Outlets Visit our Flickr to see more photos and relive SDF 2024! https://lnkd.in/gvSuUqbz

Did you miss the Block Party Mainstage performances? Or maybe you want to relive the experience? Join in the conversation from wherever you are with our Virtual Mainstage! ✨ These restreams can be found on the SDF YouTube channel premiering TONIGHT AND TOMORROW at 5:30pm PT, August 20 & 21. https://lnkd.in/gWfNiDbe

Thanks to Pratt Fine Arts Center for hosting last night's SDF Mixer and showing off the fantastic programs the space has to offer! We're back at our second Design Mixer TONIGHT at Gates Foundation Discovery Center. They put out an AMAZING catering spread and an EVEN COOLER exhibit tour for us! Join us at 5:30 pm! https://lnkd.in/gbDM-5RG