Boston, MA - Fusco & Four announces the Second Annual Boston Design Week, a 10-day citywide design festival taking place March 19-29, 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 20, 2015.  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. In its inaugural year the festival featured over eighty events in every Boston neighborhood and in numerous suburbs throughout greater Boston. The events attracted an estimated 8,000 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 festival 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 kicks off on Thursday, March 19 with the ASID New England Awards Gala at the Moakley Courthouse and concludes with the 8th Annual AD20/21: Art & Design of the 20th &21st Centuries show at the Cyclorama March 26-29. A Gala Preview to celebrate and support Boston Design Week is planned for Thursday evening, March 26 from 5:30-8:30pm at the AD20/21 show.  In between these keystone events, dozens of activities, multi-day programming and ongoing exhibitions are anticipated. 

Participation in Boston Design Week is open to greater Boston designers and 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.

Fusco explains, “We have already received numerous unsolicited inquiries from potential participants as anticipation of the Second Annual Boston Design Week builds. A number of businesses and organizations that could not participate last year are eager to jump in for our second round.  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.  We have had inquiries from as far away as the UK and Switzerland.”

“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 to inquire about Sponsorship, visit www.BostonDesignWeek.com or call 617-363-0405.