creative design

Philadelphia Design District: Where Design, Real Estate, and Economics Make for Healthy Partnerships

January 4, 2019 / Comments Off on Philadelphia Design District: Where Design, Real Estate, and Economics Make for Healthy Partnerships

Coalitions and collaborations are built to facilitate positive business transformations and blossoming creative opportunities. That’s the theory behind the Philadelphia Design District (PDD), Philadelphia’s newly formed design coalition. PDD began taking shape this past spring in the heart of Old City, from 2nd and 3rd Streets and Market to Race, with ten founding businesses, primarily […]

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Designing Futures for Equitable Neighborhoods in Philadelphia

November 30, 2018 / Comments Off on Designing Futures for Equitable Neighborhoods in Philadelphia

On October 5, 2018, ESI Senior Advisor Natalie Nixon collaborated with Rob Fleming, director of Jefferson University’s Master’s degree program in sustainable design, and Tayyib Smith, co-founder of Little Giant Creative and the Institute of Hip Hop Entrepreneurship, to facilitate a scenario planning event as part of the DesignPhiladelphia festival. The purpose of the session […]

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DesignPhiladelphia

September 28, 2018 / Comments Off on DesignPhiladelphia

The first ten days of October is when the creative community takes over Philadelphia. The 2018 DesignPhiladelphia Festival begins on the 3rd with a kick-off party at BOK Bar, and runs through Saturday the 13th featuring over 120 creative design events in locations throughout the city. This year’s theme, Design Purpose, threads the events which present functional […]

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