Where you can find Design Gym!
Upcoming Events
Check out upcoming events in our space, client projects, or guest appearances around Philly!
Open Gym Hours
EXPLORE DESIGN! At Design Gym’s community design studio in Norris Square at Color Space Laps, located at 1714 N. Mascher Street, follow our purple circle.
No registration required.
All are welcome.
Design & Tuft 101
DESIGN + TUFT
101 Series
Our 101 Series is a beginner style design demonstration. No doodads are made, only learning.
Join us to work through the design process with head coach + founder Erike and trying out tufting tools with Jayquan, owner of Crimson Threads.
No pieces/doodads will be made, this is purely a session to get to know process and tools.
OPEN TO ALL adult and youth designers.
Prior design experience is not required.
Storytime + Design PM
Storytime + Design is a weekly creative experience diving into a book and fun design exercises to grow your creativity and design process. We welcome all ages and identities on the designer journey.
Age range of books will vary, design exercises adaptable for all.
School Age Studio: What's the Day? Design a Calendar
Available on select School District of Philadelphia (SDP) half-days, we offer a hands-on, project-based design workshop that allows students to be designers in a studio. Students will learn the design process through activities and exercises to design and build a project individually and/or as a team. Each studio introduces how we see design everywhere and projects based on one or more design disciplines.
Storytime + Design AM
Storytime + Design is a weekly creative experience diving into a book and fun design exercises to grow your creativity and design process. We welcome all ages and identities on the designer journey.
Age range of books will vary, design exercises adaptable for all.
Open Gym Hours
EXPLORE DESIGN! At Design Gym’s community design studio in Norris Square at Color Space Laps, located at 1714 N. Mascher Street, follow our purple circle.
No registration required.
All are welcome.
Skill Swap Club
Skill Swap Club is a neighbor-to-neighbor exchange that reconnects people by sharing what we know.
This idea emerged from a Design Gym workshop during Philly Tech Week, where strangers from different backgrounds came together to solve everyday human problems. Facilitated by Chitsanzo Isaac, our group identified skill swapping as a response to isolation and lack of accessible support systems.
Open Gym Hours
EXPLORE DESIGN! At Design Gym’s community design studio in Norris Square at Colorspace Labs, located at 1714 N. Mascher Street, follow our purple circle.
No registration required.
All are welcome.
Purple Party: Evening of Purple
Enjoy an evening of exploration and get to know Design Gym’s community design studio at the Silk Screen Studios in Kensington/Norris Square neighborhood. Check out our library, design toys + games, find out about upcoming workshops + Open Gym, and meet our founder/head coach Erike De Veyra. We’ll have light refreshments, community, and a good dose of purple!
WEAR (SOMETHING) PURPLE
Storytime + Design PM
Storytime + Design is a weekly creative experience diving into a book and fun design exercises to grow your creativity and design process. We welcome all ages and identities on the designer journey.
Age range of books will vary, design exercises adaptable for all.
Open Gym Hours
EXPLORE DESIGN! At Design Gym’s community design studio in Norris Square at Color Space Laps, located at 1714 N. Mascher Street, follow our purple circle.
No registration required.
All are welcome.
Open Gym Hours
EXPLORE DESIGN! At Design Gym’s community design studio in Norris Square at Color Space Laps, located at 1714 N. Mascher Street, follow our purple circle.
No registration required.
All are welcome.
Open Gym Hours
EXPLORE DESIGN! At Design Gym’s community design studio in Norris Square at Color Space Laps, located at 1714 N. Mascher Street, follow our purple circle.
No registration required.
All are welcome.
School Age Studio: Fun Food Packaging
Available on select School District of Philadelphia (SDP) half-days, we offer a hands-on, project-based design workshop that allows students to be designers in a studio. Students will learn the design process through activities and exercises to design and build a project individually and/or as a team. Each studio introduces how we see design everywhere and projects based on one or more design disciplines.
School Age Studio: Design A Light
Available on select School District of Philadelphia (SDP) half-days, we offer a hands-on, project-based design workshop that allows students to be designers in a studio. Students will learn the design process through activities and exercises to design and build a project individually and/or as a team. Each studio introduces how we see design everywhere and projects based on one or more design disciplines.
Design A Doodad: Tuft Stuff - Medium
DESIGN A DOODAD
A Design Gym series of hands-on workshops for all ages + experiences to learn about design foundation principles and demystify the design process in the disciplines of architecture, fashion, graphic + textile design, to name a few.
Flex your creativity with us!
Registration includes designer(s) introductions, instruction, materials, light refreshments AND skills/knowledge + a project to take home!
Workshops are scheduled on weeknight and weekend days/times at least twice a month.
OPEN TO ALL adult and youth designers.
Prior design experience is not required.
Open Gym Hours
EXPLORE DESIGN! At Design Gym’s community design studio in Norris Square at Color Space Laps, located at 1714 N. Mascher Street, follow our purple circle.
No registration required.
All are welcome.
Storytime + Design PM
Storytime + Design is a weekly creative experience diving into a book and fun design exercises to grow your creativity and design process. We welcome all ages and identities on the designer journey.
Age range of books will vary, design exercises adaptable for all.
Open Gym Hours
EXPLORE DESIGN! At Design Gym’s community design studio in Norris Square at Color Space Laps, located at 1714 N. Mascher Street, follow our purple circle.
No registration required.
All are welcome.
Storytime + Design AM
Storytime + Design is a weekly creative experience diving into a book and fun design exercises to grow your creativity and design process. We welcome all ages and identities on the designer journey.
Age range of books will vary, design exercises adaptable for all.
Open Gym Hours
EXPLORE DESIGN! At Design Gym’s community design studio in Norris Square at Color Space Laps, located at 1714 N. Mascher Street, follow our purple circle.
No registration required.
All are welcome.
Open Gym Hours
EXPLORE DESIGN! At Design Gym’s community design studio in Norris Square at Color Space Laps, located at 1714 N. Mascher Street, follow our purple circle.
No registration required.
Free / Pay-what-you-wish
All are welcome.
Open Gym Hours
EXPLORE DESIGN! At Design Gym’s community design studio in Norris Square at Color Space Laps, located at 1714 N. Mascher Street, follow our purple circle.
No registration required.
Free / Pay-what-you-wish
All are welcome.
Open Gym Hours
EXPLORE DESIGN! At Design Gym’s community design studio in Norris Square at Color Space Laps, located at 1714 N. Mascher Street, follow our purple circle.
No registration required.
Free / Pay-what-you-wish
All are welcome.
Open Gym Hours
EXPLORE DESIGN! At Design Gym’s community design studio in Norris Square at Color Space Laps, located at 1714 N. Mascher Street, follow our purple circle.
No registration required.
Free / Pay-what-you-wish
All are welcome.
Storytime + Design
Storytime + Design is a weekly creative experience diving into a book and fun design exercises to grow your creativity and design process. We welcome all ages and identities on the designer journey.
Age range of books will vary, design exercises adaptable for all.
Design Your Own Disguise
Join us for this week's activity: Design Your Own Disguise during Open Gym hours. You could design-build a mask, a headpiece, a hat, etc. with the assistance of our on-site Design Coach. We have some materials and tools available on-site for your use. If you have any promo merch/giveaway sunglasses or headbands laying around that want to be let go of OR materials you have collected for your own disguise; or to share, we will gladly receive them on-site to help construct disguises.
Use as many sessions to complete and keep your work-in-progress at the studio.
Open Gym Hours
EXPLORE DESIGN! At Design Gym’s community design studio in Norris Square at Color Space Laps, located at 1714 N. Mascher Street, follow our purple circle.
No registration required.
Free / Pay-what-you-wish
All are welcome.
Design Your Own Disguise
Join us for this week's activity: Design Your Own Disguise during Open Gym hours. You could design-build a mask, a headpiece, a hat, etc. with the assistance of our on-site Design Coach. We have some materials and tools available on-site for your use. If you have any promo merch/giveaway sunglasses or headbands laying around that want to be let go of OR materials you have collected for your own disguise; or to share, we will gladly receive them on-site to help construct disguises.
Use as many sessions to complete and keep your work-in-progress at the studio.
Open Gym Hours
EXPLORE DESIGN! At Design Gym’s community design studio in Norris Square at Color Space Laps, located at 1714 N. Mascher Street, follow our purple circle.
No registration required.
Free / Pay-what-you-wish
All are welcome.
Tase of the Philippines: Design Your Own Halo Halo
DIY HALO HALO KEYCHAIN
Design Gym is one of the sponsors for Taste of the Philippines 2025!
Come and celebrate Filipino American History Month with us!