Boston Design Week: March 30-April 10, 2016

“Call For Events” Open for Third Annual Citywide Design Festival

Boston, MA - Fusco & Four announces the Third Annual Boston Design Week, a 12-day citywide design festival taking place March 30 – April 10, 2015. Participating organizations, businesses, sponsors and individual designers will offer special events throughout greater Boston, most presented free of charge and all open to the public. Special events include open studios, design reviews, lecture programs, behind-the-scenes tours, film screenings, fashion shows, design competitions, special exhibitions, panel discussions, receptions and more. A “Call for Events” has been issued, with a deadline for registering of January 22, 2016. For more information, to download the Participation Guide, or to register an event, visit www.BostonDesignWeek.com or call 617-363-0405.

With over 35 years of experience in the design fields, Fusco & Four launched the first annual Boston Design Week in March 2014. Each year the festival has featured over eighty events in nearly every Boston neighborhood and in numerous suburbs throughout greater Boston. An attendee commented, “It was an inspiring week of events! I’m thrilled to see that Boston has made Design Week an annual event to recognize the vital role that design plays in our lives and to attract new audiences to such a wide array of design industries.” Last year events attracted an estimated 10,000 participants, with many events Sold Out. In recognition of the design community and creative industries of the city, Mayor Martin J. Walsh issued a proclamation declaring the 2014 and 2015 festivals as “Boston Design Week”.

“Our continuing mission is to increase public awareness and appreciation of all aspects of design and foster recognition of the vital role design and our creative industries play in our lives,” comments Co-Producer Tony Fusco. “Unless you are standing out in the middle of nature, everything around you is consciously designed: from the clothes you wear, to the phone you carry, to your home, workplace and beyond. Good design has the power to touch us, to lift us up, to make our lives better, and impart a profound sense of well-being – bad design can have the opposite effect.”

Boston Design Week has been extended by an additional day this year, kicking off on Wednesday, March 30th and concluding with the 9th Annual AD20/21: Art & Design of the 20th & 21st Centuries show at the Cyclorama April 7-10. A Gala Preview to celebrate and support Boston Design Week is planned for Thursday evening, April 7th from 5:30-8:30pm at the AD20/21 show.

The only show of its kind in New England, the fair features close to 50 outstanding exhibitors offering modern to contemporary fine art, Mid-Century furnishings and contemporary studio furniture, jewelry, decorative arts, and sculpture. The Boston Print Fair features fine print galleries, contemporary print publishers, photography, drawings and other works on paper. For more information visit www.AD2021.com or call 617-363-0405.

Participation in Boston Design Week is open to greater Boston individual designers, collaboratives and collectives, design-related businesses and non-profit organizations, as well as national and international design firms looking to showcase their work in the Boston area. The organizers encourage cross-promotion among participants, collaborative events, and sharing of resources, facilities, showrooms and exhibition spaces where possible.

“Boston Design Week raises awareness of the design community and fosters new relationships within the design industry,” comments a 2015 participant. “Being a part of Design Week gave us the opportunity to be recognized as an active participant in the Boston Design Community.”           

Fusco explains, “We have already received numerous unsolicited inquiries from potential participants as anticipation of the Third Annual Boston Design Week builds. Our goal is not only to showcase the wealth of design and creative industries we have in the Boston area, but also to facilitate participation from national and international designers and design-related companies.”

“If you need ideas as to the type of event you can offer, just log on to our website and flip through a virtual edition last year’s 104-page Guidebook,” Fusco notes. “You’ll see an incredibly wide range of events appealing to all audiences.”

For more information, to register an event for Boston Design Week, or AD20/21: Art & Design of the 20th & 21st Centuries please visit www.BostonArtFairs.com

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Editors Note:  

• Complete calendar of events by early February 2016
• Additional background on request
• Interviews with the organizers and participants encouraged
• Media coverage of all events is invited