Seattle Design Festival

Mission

We unleash the design thinker in everyone to illuminate Seattle's challenges and ignite action.

About

Seattle Design Festival (SDF) demonstrates the relevance of design thinking, empowers communities to leverage design, and promotes a culture of collaboration. SDF is one of the largest publicly created Festivals in the world.

SDF engages community organizations, neighborhoods, and non-profits not traditionally involved with design thinking. Designers, makers, and activists are the foundation of the Seattle Design Festival and create installations and experiences. The public creates the Festival and anyone can propose a program or installation.

Why Give to Seattle Design Festival?

Your gift supports Festival participation for non-profits, students, and community-led organizations. Your gift to SDF keeps the Festival completely free to attend and provides individual stipends for Festival partners who engage students, activists, and marginalized communities in the design process. Your gift keeps the Festival truly accessible to everyone!

In 2025, under the theme of FEEDBACK, Seattle Design Festival will be held August 16th-21nd and include built installations, pop-up programs, plus the SDF Mainstage, culminating in the celebration of our community at the 2025 SDF Closing Party and a YouTube Festival Replay that will live on past the Festival. 

The Festival is completely free to attend for the public and engages multidisciplinary partners including UI/UX, architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, graphic design, fashion, visual art, film, dance, industrial design, gaming, and much more. The support of individual donors like you brings design to everyone.