Shops, Archives and Centers
The School of Design is housed in the Fine Arts building near the southern edge of the campus. We offer a wide range of design experiences for you including large format printing, letterpress printing, bookbinding, 3D printing, rapid prototyping and full wood and metal shops, as well as interactive media including augmented reality and virtual reality.
Shops and Labs
- Metal and Wood shops: Open Mondays – Fridays, 9 a.m. – 9 p.m
- Rapid Prototyping Lab: Mondays – Fridays, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., and by appointment
Please check the academic calendar for campus closures and holiday hours. Lab use is restricted during scheduled class time. Please check the posted signs outside of all labs for current information.
Email: Richard Ortiz, Gabe2ro@sfsu.edu
DesignSpace
DesignSpace informs and educates the campus community, the design community and the general public in the diversity of practices and issues of design in its past, its present and looking to the future through exhibitions and events. DesignSpace functions as a collaborative teaching and learning workspace for students, faculty and internal and external partners and as a public forum — inviting deeper engagement in design and its practices and discourses.
Learn more about DesignSpace
Archives, Centers and Gallery
Nathan Shapira Design Archive
This archive is a unique and rich body of materials representing the thinking, events and objects of 20th-century design. It contains well over 2,060 known design books, both contemporary and collectibles, as well as articles, files, documents, audio and video footage dating from 1963 to 2008 relative to design curriculum, lectures, seminars and documentaries on topics addressing design in developing countries, architecture and design in Los Angeles and Italy, as well as hallmark exhibits and conferences.
The archive contains relevant textual and visual evidence of the early thinking on the contemporary design concerns of:
Sustainability, appropriate technology, and localism
Culture and identity politics of the image
Universal and inclusive design
Design for emerging economies
Location:
Humanities 112
Contact:
Professor Ricardo Gomes, director
Phone: (415) 338-2229
Email: ricgomes@sfsu.edu
DesignSpace
DesignSpace informs and educates the campus community, the design community and the general public in the diversity of practices and issues of design in its past, its present and looking to the future through exhibitions and events. DesignSpace functions as a collaborative teaching and learning workspace and as a public forum, inviting deeper engagement in design, its practices and discourses.
Location: Fine Arts 115
Industrial Design Outreach
iDo was founded in 2003 as a direct response to the lack of design courses in public high schools in San Francisco. Its mission is to promote the field of industrial design and use its methodologies to enhance education. iDo provides high school participants with a no-cost introduction to design. High school students and School of Design majors collaborate on hands-on interdisciplinary design projects. These experiences foster curiosity in youth participants, promote creativity, build self-confidence and allow them to develop valuable vocational and college skills. In turn, college students learn to build and deliver a curriculum, which enhances their communication, organization, presentation, team building and design skills.
Contact:
Professor Emeritus Martin Linder, director
Email: mlinder@sfsu.edu
