Seattle Design Festival
The Seattle Design Festival was founded in 2011 as a strategic initiative of AIA Seattle in order to promote a public dialogue about the role and impact of design on urban life.
The Seattle Design Festival (SDF) celebrates all the ways that design makes life better for Seattle, and to nurture relationships among designers, citizens, city leaders, and future-thinking business innovators. Now in its 11th year, SDF is the largest design-related event in the Pacific Northwest, gathering 120+ partners and over 30,000 attendees to 80+ citywide events. Past Festival themes include: Beneath the Surface (SDF 2011), Design in Motion (SDF 2014), Design for Equity (SDF 2015), POWER (SDF 2017) and CURIOSITY (SDF 2023). To learn more about past Festivals, visit our Festival Archive.
Our Mission
The Seattle Design Festival unleashes the design thinker in everyone to illuminate Seattle’s challenges and ignite action.
Our Vision
We envision a culture of design that fosters equitable, resilient, and thriving communities.
For more information, visit seadesignfest.org.
