SAN FRANCISCO — SanFrancisco Mayor, Gavin Newsom, has once again declared June 15–21, 2009, as “Design Makes a Difference Week” in San Francisco. SF Design Week reaches out to a diverse community of over 20,000 Bay Area design professionals as well as local businesses, non-profits, entrepreneurs, students, the design-savvy public, tourists, and more.

AIGA San Francisco will be sponsoring a full week of events highlighting the diversity and professionalism of the design community around the bay. Their goal is to raise public awareness of the impact that all design — graphic, product, interior, fashion, architecture, advertising, etecetera — has in the San Francisco Bay Area.