This year’s Festival Closing Party will feature a silent auction with unique items to bid on such as: Imaginative Artworks by Pacific Northwest Designers: In 2016, P2S (formerly Notkin) engaged 54 architecture firms from the Pacific Northwest in a collaborative reimagining of a playing card deck. Aiming to rekindle dormant relationships and create new ones, P2S…
Join us August 17-22 We are thrilled to invite you to join us for 6 days of transformative programming, all designed to unleash the design thinker in everyone and to build more equitable and thriving communities through design. Mark your calendar- save the date- and ask yourself WHAT IF? we can all harness the power of design?…
What If… the next generation of designers and community organizations had more support? This year the Seattle Design Festival is investing over $12,000 back into our community by way of funding awards and waived submission fees. We are thrilled to announce that we have extended funding awards to 20 outstanding partners for the 2024 Seattle…
We were so excited to see over 300 designers respond to the SDF 2024 Call for Proposals! These designers have joined together to create just over 60 design teams, each exploring a unique ‘what if’ question to unleash design thinkers across our community. These teams represent various design fields, from architecture and urban planning to…
Featured: Sketch Seattle – an SDF 2023 Pop-Up Experience that was awarded funding. Funding support is available for Non-Profit/Emerging Designer submitters. This funding reflects our commitment to keeping the Festival accessible to all, not only designers and their firms, but also community groups, emerging professionals, nonprofit organizations, and students. What does this support look like?…
The Seattle Design Festival is a reflection of our community- an opportunity to showcase and amplify the conversations driving design in our city. We would not exist without you- and the hundreds of other community members who bring forward proposals and support the Festival each year. How will you shape this year’s Festival? PARTNER…