Tampa Design Week strives to brings design experts, city leaders, and citizens together to celebrate and explore how design improves the quality of our lives and our community, through a series of events: FREE film screenings, an urban bike tour, Carousel (artist presentations), and Design Franklin Street: a Pop-Up Block Party.

Specifically, our Design Double Feature includes free screenings of the films: "Design is One" and "Urbanized" and includes 3 food trucks at Massey Park. The Urban bike tour will highlight recently opened hotels and restaurants, with each stop featuring a brief discussion with a designer responsible for the final project. Carousel is a Todd Bate's program showcasing local creatives in a discourse about their work. And finally, for Design Franklin Street, all motivated designers are asked to design and work in collaborative cross-disciplinary teams to design and construct installations around the theme "the Power of Design", transforming an underutilized block of Franklin Street into a showcase for the day.

our theme is the ‘Power of Design.’ Great design has the potential to greatly improve the quality of life in our local community. Tampa Bay Design Week's goal is to inspire the public to recognize good design and participate in the making of their environment. We will connect the public with design professionals from different disciplines to exchange ideas on design practices and innovations, all while highlighting an underutilized area on Franklin Street and promoting economic development.

OUR GOAL: Great design has the potential to greatly improve the quality of life in our local community. Tampa Bay Design Week's goal is to inspire the public to recognize good design participate in the making of their environment. We will connect the public with design professionals from different disciplines to exchange ideas on design practices and innovations, all while highlighting an underutilized area on Franklin Street.