Dining by Design

November 20, 2009 at 7:21 pm | Posted in Community Service, Cool Stuff | Leave a comment
Tags: DIFFA, Dining by Design San Francisco, Gensler, Haworth

DIFFA (the Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids) held it’s annual Dining by Design event the past two nights at the San Francisco Design Center. 

The event is always a fantastic showcase of creativity, but this year we wanted to bring the focus back on the true reason we participate in this event- to raise much-needed funds for the prevention & treatment of HIV/AIDS.  In this light, we chose not to showcase a tabletop the first night.  Instead, we invited participants to walk through the space, amidst hundreds of hanging ribbons with messages of hope on them.  The ribbons were cut away, symbolic of removing the obstacles before us, then given to those individuals who act as ambassadors, taking the positive message out into the  community. 

Special thanks to our cosponsor Haworth and all the other contributors -Mission Bell, Architecture +Light, Principal Builders, Color Kinetics, Yamagiwa, 3form, Birch, Lorikatz Group, Luna, and all the volunteers!  The event was a great success!  We couldn’t have done it without all your help.