Art + Design Walk: Warped Tour Edition July 26 | Downtown Long Beach 2-7pm This summer’s Art + Design Walk (taking place during Vans Warped Tour) gets a musical twist, with live performances popping up in unexpected corners of DTLB. The event coincides with Long Beach Walls and features the 10 Degrees Cooler poster exhibition, a […]
Immersive Design Research Lab (IDRL) - Open Lab September 19 | Downtown Long Beach 4-7pm Always excited for collaboration, we hope you stop by to take a peek. There will also be ongoing research and demos of Move.ai for motion capture. Please share with anyone you think may be interested. This downtown space, hosted by […]
US International poster biennial October 11 - November 30 | Downtown Long Beach The U.S. Poster Biennial arrives in DTLB with a juried selection of bold, provocative, and beautifully crafted posters from designers across the international. Celebrating the power of print in the public realm, the exhibition transforms city streets into an open-air gallery, inviting […]
Art + Design Walk October 11 | Downtown Long Beach (Mosaic Promenade, Studio One Eleven, ISM Brewing, and Design District sites) 2-7pm Experience Downtown Long Beach transformed into a vibrant, walkable gallery celebrating art, design, and community. This year’s Art + Design Walk features exhibitions, pop-ups, and live activations citywide. At its core is the […]
As Los Angeles confronts the realities of fire, drought, and climate pressure, acclaimed essayist D.J. Waldie reflects on the four classical elements—earth, water, air, and fire—as a framework for understanding the city’s past and present. With clarity and compassion, Waldie unpacks the fragile balance between beauty and precarity in Los Angeles, weaving history, memory, and culture into […]
Long Beach Underground Series: Temples October 16 | Intertrend’s Psychic Temple and the historic Masonic Temple Altar Society 6-9pm Step inside the hidden stories of Pine Avenue with the launch of the Long Beach Underground Series, a three-part journey organized by LB Food Coma and the DTLB Design District. The series begins with Temples on […]
Join DTLB Design District & Lili Weigert for a conversation on sustainable, flexible, intergenerational living through ADUs. Join the DTLB Design District and author Lili Weigert at Studio One Eleven for an evening on how thoughtful ADU design can support sustainability, flexibility, and intergenerational living. We’ll hear insights from Weigert’s new book Making Space: ADUs for Modern Living and a panel featuring Bo Sundius (Bunch […]
When? Thursday, November 20, 5:30pm to 7:30pm Where? The Edison Theatre (213 E. Broadway) What is Music to My Eyes? Creative Class Collective assigned a random song to 22 art students from LBUSD who were then tasked with listening to their song and painting whatever the music inspired in them. The art on display […]
Long Beach Underground debuts Temples: an immersive night of design, story, and spirit with LB Food Coma & DTLB Design District. After the success of this summer’s Design Dinner at the LA Design Festival, DTLB Design District and LB Food Coma return with Long Beach Underground: TEMPLES, an immersive night of design, story, and spirit. […]
We’re kicking off something special, Long Beach. Join the Long Beach Design District for the very first Design at Dusk—a casual, holiday-season hang where designers and creatives can meet, mingle, scheme, dream, and spark the kind of collaborations that make this city hum. We’re gathering Thursday, December 18th, 4:30–6:30pm at the newly opened Buen Provecho in […]
Join us Thursday, December 18, 5-9pm at DTLB N. Promenade (4th & Waite) to celebrate CSULB Human Experience Design & Interaction students completing their master’s milestone!
Community Repairs by LOT at DTLB Farmers Market First Fridays | Downtown Long Beach Farmers Market, 300 N Promenade 10am-12pm LOT station approaches repair as thinking-through-making. Items brought to the station are first inspected and discussed by the team. Priority is given to vintage objects, heirlooms, items with sentimental value, and repairs that present interesting or […]