Detroit Design Festival: Showcasing Detroit’s Creative Community

Detroit Design Festival (DDF) is a crowd-sourced design festival developed to showcase the talents and abilities Detroit’s creative community. Over the eight days and nights of DDF—September 21 through September 28—a variety of “Design Happenings” will take place at venues across the city of Detroit.  The types of  happenings will include studio tours, panels and roundtable discussions, fashion shows, and art battles to name a few.

Detroit Creative Corridor Center established the Detroit Design Festival to connect creative practitioners with one another, expose them to new markets and consumers, and of course put on display the creative talent that will help Detroit become a global center of creative innovation.

Matt Clayson, Director of Detroit Design Festival, is a drafter of the Detroit Declaration, a Leadership Team member of United Way Leadership Next and the founding Chair of United Way Leadership Next and a founding member of Michigan Children’s Leadership Council.

“I want a Detroit that is not just globally renowned, but is globally competitive. I want a Detroit that does a few things, and does those few things better than anyone else in the world. Detroit can be a leader in design, urban development, greenbelts and mobility. I look forward to advancing solutions that can help us be a leader in these areas.”

The Premiere Sponsor of The Detroit Design Festival was Detroit’s very own, Quicken Loans. Media Partners included Metro Times, Model D, WDET 101.9. Corporate Partners were DTE Energy, Fathead, Vitamin Water, Compuware and Detroit Creative Corridor Center. Finally, the Digital Partners included us at Video Vision 360 along with After 5 Detroit, B.L.A.C., Between the Lines, Detroit Lives, Go Social Detroit, The Hub, I Am Young Detroit, Motor City Blog, and Special D Events.

About the Detroit Creative Corridor Center

The Detroit Creative Corridor Center is designed to support the growth of Detroit’s creative economy through delivering business acceleration and attraction services and developing signature programming tailored specifically to creative professionals’ needs.

The physical home of the Detroit Creative Corridor Center is a flexible, technology rich, design forward workspace for creative sector businesses seeking a soft launch in a professional, inspiring, and innovative environment.  It is also home to the DC3’s Creative Ventures Program, where such firms are supported through access to collaborative work space, shared tooling and resources, and strategic, collaborative exchanges with other DC3 members and creative professionals from the region, nation and abroad.

The DC3 is committed to promoting the success of the creative economy in Detroit, and believe that Detroit’s Creative Corridor is quickly becoming home to some of the nation’s most innovative creative practitioners.  We are working with creative sector businesses – from world-class advertising agencies to up-and-coming fashion designers – to ensure that creative talent is informed of the opportunities in the city, supported in their business functions, and supported in the development of their creativity and business skill.

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