alaska design forum

08/19/2025

August Bike Tour - this Wednesday and Thursday. Join us this week for our last Summer Social of the season!

This summer we introduced ADF’s Summer Socials – three months of outdoor events that invite you to walk, wander, and wheel through our Alaskan cities as we uncover hidden potential and celebrate what already works.

AUGUST BIKE* TOUR:
Do our cities look different via bicycle? These tours will be utilizing bicycles to explore our cities. They will start and stop, with frequent discussions as to what we are seeing and experiencing.

ANCHORAGE – WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20th
Meeting point: Anchorage Museum Lawn - 5:30PM-7:30PM

JUNEAU – WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20th
Meet at Sandy Beach main picnic shelter - 5:30PM-7PM
*Juneau will be exploring via foot.

FAIRBANKS – THURSDAY, AUGUST 21st
Meeting point TBA - 6PM-7:30PM

✨ RSVP on EventBrite to stay in the loop — we’ll see you out there! ✨
www.eventbrite.com/o/alaska-design-forum-27931701773

06/10/2025

Introducing ADF’s Summer Socials!

Miss us in the summer? We miss you too — so we’re launching something new! Join us for three months of outdoor events that invite you to walk, wander, and wheel through our Alaskan cities as we uncover hidden potential and celebrate what already works.

June – City Walks
Stroll your downtown and reimagine how our streets can come alive.
ANC – WED, June 18th @ 6:30PM
JUN – WED, June 18th @ 5:30PM
FBX – THURSDAY, June 19th @ 6PM

July – Water’s Edge
Explore how our cities connect to the water — and how they could do more.
ANC – WED, July 23rd @ 6:30PM
JUN – WED, July 23rd @ 5:30PM
** NEW TIME ** FBX – WED July 23rd @ 6PM

August – Bike Tours
See your city from a new angle, and talk about what you notice along the way.
ANC – WED, August 20th @ 5:30PM
JUN – WED, August 20th @ 5:30PM
FBX – THURS, August 21st @ 6PM

✨ RSVP on EventBrite to stay in the loop — we’ll see you out there! ✨

www.eventbrite.com/o/alaska-design-forum-27931701773

03/24/2025

This week we are hosting our final design lecture of the season in Anchorage/Fairbanks/Juneau! Join us to hear from Omar Gandhi, an award-winning architect from Canada, speaking on a range of the firms beautiful residential and commercial projects. Peek more of his work here, https://omargandhi.com/ and find additional lecture information on our main page at https://alaskadesignforum.org/

Hope to see you there!

03/03/2025

Join us Wednesday March 5, 2025 at 7:00pm in Juneau for The Human Scale, an ADF Film Screening Event!

The Human Scale, is a thought-provoking documentary that challenges the way we design and experience cities.

Directed by Andreas Dalsgaard, the film explores the work of renowned Danish architect Jan Gehl, who has spent decades advocating for human-centered urban design. Through stunning visuals and insightful commentary, The Human Scale examines how cities can be reimagined to prioritize people over cars, fostering vibrant, sustainable, and more livable communities.

*Doors open 30 minutes before the Film time

TICKETS ON SALE AT THE DOOR
Choose your price:
$5 - Students, Seniors, & Starving Artists
$15 - General Admission
$50 - Super Supporter

02/25/2025

Join us Wednesday February 26, 2025 in Fairbanks for The Human Scale, an ADF Film Screening Event!

The Human Scale, is a thought-provoking documentary that challenges the way we design and experience cities.
Directed by Andreas Dalsgaard, the film explores the work of renowned Danish architect Jan Gehl, who has spent decades advocating for human-centered urban design. Through stunning visuals and insightful commentary, The Human Scale examines how cities can be reimagined to prioritize people over cars, fostering vibrant, sustainable, and more livable communities.

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All Showings:

Wednesday, February 26, 2025
FBX: Film starts at 6:30pm
Gather
714 3rd Avenue Fairbanks, AK 99701

Wednesday, March 5, 2025
JNU: Film starts at 7:00pm
Gold Town Theater
171 Shattuck Way, Suite 109, Juneau, AK 99801
*Doors open 30 minutes before the Film time

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TICKETS ON SALE AT THE DOOR
Choose your price:
$5 - Students, Seniors, & Starving Artists
$15 - General Admission
$50 - Super Supporter

02/19/2025

Join us tonight for a special presentation by Carson Chan, Architecture & Design Curator at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Carson Chan is the inaugural Director of the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and Natural Environment, and a Curator in the Museum’s Department of Architecture and Design. He develops, leads, and implements the Ambasz Institute’s manifold research initiatives through a range of programs, including exhibitions, public lectures, conferences, seminars, and publications. Before joining MoMA in 2021, he worked as an architecture writer, curator, and educator. In 2006 he cofounded PROGRAM, a project space and residency program in Berlin that tested the disciplinary boundaries of architecture through exhibition making.

ANCHORAGE DESIGN WEEK – WEDNESDAY, FEB 19
Anchorage Museum Auditorium (Use 7th Ave. Entrance) - 7:30PM
The Anchorage presentation is in collaboration with Anchorage Design Week and is free of charge.

Other Opportunities:

FAIRBANKS – THURSDAY, FEB 20
Gather AK (714 3rd Ave) - 6:30PM

JUNEAU – FRIDAY, FEB 21
Gold Town Theater (171 Shattuck Way, Suite 109) - 5:30PM

TICKETS ON SALE AT THE DOOR (FBX & JNU)
Choose your price:
$5 - Students, Seniors, & Starving Artists
$20 - General Admission
$50 - Super Supporter See less

01/17/2025

Join us on Wednesday, 1/22, in the Anchorage Museum Auditorium, for the latest installment of the ADF Film Series:

MODERNISM, INC.
A documentary film about Architect Eliot Noyes, one of the leading pioneers of modern design during the mid-century, post-war boom in the United States.

7PM, Wednesday, Jan. 22nd
Anchorage Museum Auditorium
(7th Avenue Entrance)

TICKETS ON SALE AT THE DOOR - CHOOSE YOUR PRICE:
$5 - Students, Seniors & Starving Artists
$20 - General Admission
$50 - Super Supporter

11/19/2024

JOIN US THIS WEEK!

Our last lecture before the holidays, join us for a talk from renowned Cuban-American designer and illustrator, CARLOS ZAMORA. He is also the Chief Creative Officer and founder of the branding agency, CARTEL.

Zamora’s award-winning illustrations have been published in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Scholastics, New York Observer, The Boston Globe, Advertising Age, American Lawyer, and The Wall Street Journal. Zamora earned his Bachelor of Arts from Havana Design Institute (ISDI), Cuba’s premier design school, in 2000.

A father, an author and educator, Zamora is also a former President of AIGA St. Louis. He currently serves as a board member for Lambert International Airport Art Advisory Committee and the Tennessee Williams Festival.

He cherishes a fondness for poster design, Russian cartoons, propaganda art and ci**rs. He has received the CommArts Award of Excellence 2017, 2018 and 2019 in the categories of Illustration and Typography.

His work has been featured in the Society of Illustrators, 3X3 Magazine and Creative Quarterly. His poster for Cinco de Mayo in Cherokee Street made it to Los Diez, the top ten latino illustrations of the Year by American Illustration. He is currently looking for publishers for his most recent picture book The Forest Within.

Learn more about Carlos at yescartel.com, and learn more about us at alaskadesignforum.org.

ANC – WEDNESDAY, NOV 20
SEED LAB (111 W. 6th Ave) - 7PM LECTURE
FBX – THURSDAY, NOV 21
GATHER AK (714 3rd Ave) - 6:30PM LECTURE
JNU – FRIDAY, NOV 22
GOLD TOWN THEATER - 5:30PM LECTURE

TICKETS ON SALE AT THE DOOR - CHOOSE YOUR PRICE:
$5 - Students, Seniors & Starving Artists
$20 - General Admission
$50 - Super Supporter

11/12/2024

Once a year, the best of Alaskan graphic design is on display at AIGA Alaska’s annual “Big One” design awards. Open to the public, all are invited to support and celebrate our talented local designers – and see who takes home the top honors. 🏆

The BIG One Awards is November 16th! - https://mailchi.mp/alaska/tbo23-10136194

04/10/2024

Tonight in ANC!
Tomorrow in FBX!
Friday in JNU!

Join us for a very special evening featuring Deanna Van Buren. She is an architect, developer, and an advocate for restorative justice from Oakland, CA.

If you have friends who are attorneys, judges, policy-makers, activists… bring them along! This one isn’t just for the design-y folks, this lecture will touch upon wide-ranging social and political issues that will be thought-provoking and relevant to anyone interested in using design for social justice.

02/20/2024

Join us if you are in Anchorage this Thursday night for a PechaKucha on the theme HOUSE! We will be hearing from locals Lindsay Hajduk, Garrett Burtner, Bob Juliussen, John Thurber, Andre Spinelli, SJ Klein, Daniel McKenna-Foster, and Tamas Deak. Details thru the links below:

This event is part of Anchorage Design Week which kicks off tomorrow. DESIGN WEEK EVENTS: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/anchorage-design-week-2024-3011259

HAPPY HOUR BEFORE PECHAKUCHA EVENTBRITE:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/anc-design-week-pechakucha-night-happy-hour-tickets-802231625387?aff=odcleoeventsincollection

PECHAKUCHA EVENTBRITE:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pechakucha-night-presented-by-alaska-design-forum-tickets-808585871107?aff=odcleoeventsincollection