Austin Design Week

IMPORTANT UPDATE: We're saying farewell to Austin Design Week. What an incredible six years it's been. Thank you to each and every one of you who hosted, volunteered, sponsored, partnered, attended, learned and grew with us.

Please read more and learn how to stay connected here: https://austindesignweek.org/blog/a-farewell-to-austin-design-week

🗳Vote for these PanelPicker proposals! 🗳

While we won't be gathering this November, it's important that we continue to uplift Austin designers and connect with the design community.

The Design Community Meet Up at is a chance to gather with local designers and creatives from around the world. Help us bring this meaningful event back to SXSW in 2023 by voting for our meet up.

We also want to highlight a few other great proposals that we've come across from local Austin designers. Check out the events below and show them some love by giving them your vote!

✔️Bending Reality: How to Create Magic in Design - talk by ’s Umy Boonmarlart
✔️Building the Metaverse: Careers and Purpose - panel with ADW Board Alumna and Assistant Dean for , Doreen Lorenzo
✔️Designing Communication for Connection & Inclusion - panel with past ADW speaker and Distinguished Designer Oen Michael Hammonds
✔️How Artists Make Money (Let's Talk Real Numbers!) - talk by Austin-based co-owner of , Katie Johnson and her co-owner Ilana Griffo
✔️Imagine a Stress-Free Airport Journey for All - talk featuring Deputy Chief of Strategy & Innovation for the Jill Goodman
✔️More Than User-Friendly: Truly Pro-People Products - talk by Head of Brand Strategy for Jarrod Tredway
✔️The Convergence of Everything - panel with Stan Farnsworth, Chief Marketing Officer of PulseForge Inc.
✔️The Agile Mindset for Artists - Get Unblocked - panel with screenwriter and product marketer Bobby Lancaster

🗳Cast Your Votes by August 21st

Do you have a design-related SXSW proposal you want us to share with the community? Tag us on social!

We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible during SXSW and stay tuned for exciting updates from the ADW Team.

Important Announcement about 2022: ADW is taking this year off. We’re working behind the scenes to secure a new organizational home for ADW so that it can grow bigger and better and continue to serve our growing community for many years to come. As part of this change, we're bringing in new leadership and need to take this year off to give them time to get onboarded and plan for ADW's future.

You can read more at the link below and please stay tuned for more updates:
https://austindesignweek.org/blog/important-adw-2022-update

Meet up with the global design community during !

Join us on Sunday, March 13th for the Design Community Meetup. This is an opportunity to connect outside of ADW, with not only our local design community but those visiting from around the world.

Meet fellow architects, planners, fashion, user experience, product designers, and other design enthusiasts.

See you at at 4pm on Sunday 👋

*This is an official SXSW event. You must have a badge or Interactive wristband to attend.

We always say it takes a village to make ADW a reality and today we’re giving a very important shout out to some of the behind-the-scenes members of that village: our communications team!

The emails, blog posts, social media coverage, creative spotlights, media features, language on our website, and so much more — that’s all thanks to these wonderful folks!

A huge shout out to:
- Brian McMullen (), content
- Leslie Ann Barrientos (), strategy
- Kathleen See, project management
- Alexis Simon (), social & partnerships
- Lyric Metroplos (), social & community
- Lillian Hartman (), social & community
- Sam Lauron (), blog
- Canan Kaba, pr
- Michelle Kao (.mink), design

Thank you for all your work this past year to help us communicate with and spotlight the ADW community ❤️

While ADW is powered by volunteers, there are also financial expenses to running an event like that we couldn’t have done without our sponsors.

Did you attend an event in the Hub? Find your way around an event thanks to branded signage? Identify a volunteer by their ADW T-shirt? Join a virtual event on Zoom? All of this was thanks to the support of our sponsors.

Today we want to thank , a Material+ company. Having been involved with ADW for several years attending and hosting events, we were thrilled to have their support as a sponsor this year! 👏

As we near the end of 2021, we cannot help but think how thankful we are for such an inspiring, thought-provoking, fun .

Before we sign off for the year, there are a few more people and organizations we want to thank. Well highlight them here over the next few days.
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How many times did you visit the ADW website this year? (Our answer: too many times to count 🙈)

That website is powered by Marketing 360®] and we’re grateful to the team there for their continued support. (👋 Julia & Stuart) Formerly SpaceCraft, they created the very first version of what at the time was designweekaustin.com (now austindesignweek.org) and have continued to help us maintain the site over all of these years. Thanks, Marketing 360®] ❤️