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September 27, 2012

 

Seattle Design Festival Sparks Imagination – Downtown Seattle | News
The 2012 Seattle Design Festival runs from Thursday, September 20 to Sunday, September 23 with most events in the South Lake Union neighborhood,
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Three For T @ Seattle Design Festival | Facebook
Friends & Fans- We’re excited to announce that we’ll be playing a set this Saturday (9/22) at the Seattle Design Festival! This is an all-ages festival and also
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Seattle Design Festival Showtimes & Reviews | The Stranger
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‘Tokyo Story’, one of the greatest films of all time, screens here
The Seattle Times
The Seattle Design Festival: Films on Architecture and Design screens this weekend at the SIFF Film Center (Seattle Center campus), with seven documentaries

What will be done with the old 520 Bridge pontoons … – KOMO News
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SEATTLE — There’s currently 31 million pounds of material holding up to know you can come tomorrow to the Seattle Design Festival event at
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/What-will-be-done-with-old-520-Bridge-pontoons-170599766.html

Seattle Design Festival This Weekend | Belltown, Seattle
After a successful go last year, the Seattle Design Festival is back this weekend, and it’s dressed to impress. Design in Public presents the 2nd annual festival,
belltowninseattle.com/…/seattle-design-festival-this-weekend/

Seattle Design Festival | Home And Decoration
Seattle Design Festival
, the second annual showcase, Brings Design Ideas to the Streets. It combines graphic, interior, industrial and urban design talent.
homeandecoration.com/seattle-design-festival/

Seattle Design Festival Hits the Town This Weekend Tacoma Narrows
[Photo by cactusbones via Flickr] · Future determined for Fire Station 39 in Lake City [LCL] · Seattle Design Festival this weekend!
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6 things to do in Belltown and Downtown Seattle this weekend, Sept
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Design Festival Happy Hour – Head to the Suyama Peterson Deguchi guest room located at 2324 2nd Avenue to celebrate the Seattle Design Festival.

Seattle Design Festival – Congoo
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Top 5 Seattle Design Festival Events | Seattle Met
Infographic poster shows and design-driven pub trivia are highlights of this weekend’s festival.
www.seattlemet.com/…/top-five-seattle-design-festival-events

Seattle Design Festival – Alaska Business Monthly – September
The second annual showcase of our region’s diverse industrial design and architecture talent is centered at “The Design Block” in South Lake Union, an open
www.akbizmag.com/Alaska-Business…/Seattle-Design-Festival…

Seattle Design Festival September 20th-23rd – Seattle Transit Blog
By Adam Bejan Parast
September 17, 2012 at 7:30 am. by Adam Bejan Parast. While not totally within the genre this blog covers the Seattle Design Festival has more than a few events that STB readers would probably enjoy. Below are highlights from the festival:

Seattle Design Festival 2012 Engage Your World | wwwkirotvcom
With its theme “Engage Your World,” the Festival invites the public to participate in a conversation about urban life that is both playful and serious.
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Seattle Design Festival kicks off tomorrow
Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
…at 4Culture Gallery, 101 Prefontaine Place S. in Seattle. The Seattle Design Festival runs tomorrow through Sunday, offering the public a chance to see

Upcycling is taking recycling to a higher level
KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest
Upcycling is one of the focuses of this week’s Seattle Design Festival and a good example of what it is can be found in an old wooden warehouse in Seattle’s

Things to do the Week of 9/16/2012
About – Cities & Towns
Seattle Design Festival
2012 at Denny Way and Westlake. The band Dispatch is on at Paramount Theatre. “Cinderella” by Pacific Northwest Ballet starts at

Families make the homes they need for life’s beginning and end
The Seattle Times
This year’s Seattle Design Festival will be Sept. 20-23. The theme, Engage Your World, explores ways that design can improve and increase our interactions with the urban environment. The four-day program features activities, exhibits, films, tours
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Seattle Design Festival Daily From September 20 Until September 23 Seattle Design Festival at South Lake Union Discovery Center information, tickets, photos, reviews and more.
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Seattle Design Festival Design Block | John Street Whereventcom
The “design block” transforms an everyday street space into a fun public gathering area as well as a…
www.wherevent.com/…/Trevor-Dykstra-Seattle-Design-Festiva…

Artefact Partners with Seattle Design Festival for Exciting Design
For a second year in a row, Artefact has partnered with the Seattle Design Festival, the region’s largest interdisciplinary design event. Taking place in the South
www.artefactgroup.com/…/artefact-partners-with-seattle-desig…

Seattle Gets Ready for Design ‘Super Weekend’ with Seattle Design
For the second year in a row, the Seattle Design Festival, the region’s largest The Seattle Design Festival will take place in the South Lake Union
www.newson6.com/…/seattle-gets-ready-for-design-super-wee…

Seattle Design Festival Brings Artful Ideas to the – Seattle Magazine
When used well, design can solve problems,” says Linda Norlen—and she has proof.
www.seattlemag.com/…/seattle-design-festival-brings-artful-id…

“Super Weekend” with Seattle Design Festival – Seattle Post
Annual Event Dedicated to the Power of Design Brings together Citizens, Design Experts, Business and City Leaders With its theme “Engage Your World” and a
www.seattlepi.com/…/Seattle-Gets-Ready-for-Design-Super-W…

Bustler: Seattle Design Jam: a Street Furniture Design Competition
at the Seattle Design Festival? Street furniture created for the Design Jam will be part of the “Design Block,” the hub of this year’s Seattle Design Festival.
www.bustler.net/…/seattle_design_jam_a_street_furniture_desi…


August 31, 2012

Download a pdf of the 2012 Seattle Design Festival press release here.


August 30, 2012

An article by Festival Honorary Co-Chair Anne Traver, mentioning the Festival, is in the online version of Seattle Business (to appear later in the print edition) 


August 29, 2012

Seattle magazine features the Seattle Design Festival and the nonprofit that created it, Design in Public, in the September edition of the magazine (page 30) and in their online version at: http://seattlemag.com/article/seattle-design-festival-brings-artful-ideas-streets


August 28, 2012

City Arts magazine mentions the upcoming Seattle Design Festival in their “News + Notes” section of the magazine (page 14) along with a photo of Graypants’ bar and lighting installation at the August 3 fundraiser at Western Bridge for Design in Public.


August 7, 2012

Seattle Design Festival featured on the widely-read architecture blog Arch Daily.


September 23, 2011

The Puget Sound Business Journal publishes a contributed article by Bob Hull, Festival Honorary Co-Chair: “Good Design’s Day in the Sun.” (Content available to subscribers.)


September 22, 2011

Crosscut’s article Seattle’s fall art scene delves into design notes how the Festival “mark[s] not the end of a list but the beginning of many more art and design events in the greater Seattle area.”

The Seattlest includes August de los Reyes’ talk in their “Can’t Miss It” Thursday post, an event they say is “right on target” in terms of the Festival’s goal in demonstrating that “design is an active force that solves problems, contributes to innovation, and improves our lives.”

The UW Department of Architecture blog again highlights some Festival films in their An Autumn Weekend in Seattle blog entry.

The Seattle Times ‘Movies’ section mentions a few of the many excellent architecture and design films offered by the Festival.


September 21, 2011

DJC Green Building Blog highlights the Brightwater grand opening celebration as an event “not to miss” in their recent blog post Tours galore including net zero energy zHome, Brightwater, Seattle Design Festival.


September 20, 2011

Seattle real estate blog Urbnlivn showcases some Seattle Design Festival events in Our Picks for the Seattle Design Festival.

PopCap talks about their Design Marks sonotube and the Belltown P-Patch in which it resides in A Pillar of our Community, an entry on their company blog.


September 18, 2011

The Seattle Times Pacific Northwest Magazine introduces the FutureShack jury and invites readers to “please welcome the newest member of our festival-happy town, this one celebrating all things design” in Seattle debuts Design Festival; Meet the FutureShack jury.


September 16, 2011

Publicola chose the Seattle Design Festival as one of their “Publicalendar Picks,” saying “Whether you are a professional who understands the artistic nuances of design, or a civically engaged citizen seeking ideas and possibilities for the future of the city, you’re sure to find inspiration and food for thought at this festival.” 

Another weekend feature in the Seattle P-I for the Festival!

Watch the Seattle Chinese Times’ coverage of Park(ing) Day and interview with Festival organizer Linda Norlen.


September 15, 2011

The UW Department of Architecture profiles a few of the many events offered by the Festival in their This Weekend feature.

The Seattle P-I writes about the Festival and how it “will give all of us a chance to learn more about what makes design work” in Seattle, get ready to think about design.


September 13, 2011

Crosscut.com publishes an essay by Barbara Swift, one of the four Honorary Co-Chairs of the Festival, on why our region is poised for a flourishing of design.

Charles Mudede of The Stranger recommends the films in the Seattle Design Festival, particularly “Visual Acoustics: the Modernism of Julius Shulman” (which screens Saturday, September 24) and the two documentaries playing on Friday, September 23: “How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?” and “Eye Over Prague.”


September 1, 2011

The Seattle Magazine 2011 Fall Arts Preview selected the Seattle Design Festival for one of its “Must-See Events” among Fall Arts Festivals.
Seattle Magazine (online and print, p. 157), September 2011

One of the eight films in the Seattle Design Festival, Modern Views: A Conversation About Northwest Architecture, by Boaz Ashkenazy, was named an “Editor’s Pick.”
Seattle Magazine (online and print, p.162), September 2011


August 17, 2011

The Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce reports on the Festival’s selection of Honorary Co-Chairs Jack Anderson (Hornall Anderson), John Barratt (Teague), Robert Hull (Miller Hull Partnership), and Barbara Swift (Swift Company) in an article titled “Co-chairs named for design festival.” (Content available to subscribers.)


July 30, 2011

Our Seattle Design Festival “pop-up design center” and its activities will be hosted by Olson Kundig Architects in a space at 406 Occidental Avenue they’re simply calling [storefront], which was mentioned July 27 in The Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce.


July 25, 2011

The Seattle Design Festival will be mentioned Sunday, September 18 in the The Seattle Times Pacific Northwest Magazine cover story on FutureShack 2011, AIA Seattle’s residential design program happening September 20 at Seattle Center.


June 29, 2011

The Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce covers the Seattle Design Festival in an article by Lynn Porter, “Festival this fall will focus on the variety of design in Seattle.”
(Content available to subscribers.)