Create Now San Francisco Design Week
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Thank you to those who joined us. Below, you’ll find resources shared during the event, and we look forward to seeing you the next time we are in town!
Adobe Creative Apprenticeship
The Adobe Creative Apprenticeship connects aspiring creatives with top industry workplaces for real-world experience. Find out how you can get involved, whether you’re starting out or looking to give back.
Adobe Insiders
The Adobe Insiders Community is where passionate creators shape the future of Adobe products by sharing feedback, sparking ideas, and building together. Join our community to engage directly with our product teams and share your ideas.
Adobe Live
Want to learn more about Adobe’s tools? Check out live-streamed and on-demand content from professional artists, designers, photographers, illustrators, motion designers, and other creatives.
Design Create Now Resource Page
Attached you'll find most of the products and features mentioned at Design Create Now. It does not cover features in the Photography or Video category.
Presenters
Principal Worldwide Creative Cloud Evangelist
Paul Trani
Paul Trani is a Principal Worldwide Creative Cloud Evangelist at Adobe. As a 25 year veteran of the design community is passionate about empowering designers to create compelling content using their creativity and new technology.
Guest Speakers
Local Creator Showcase
Leah Fasten
Leah takes the strange, complicated and magical process of making something and gives people permission to trust their own creative voice resulting in brave, surprising and very human work. She’s done it as an award winning commercial photographer for 15+ years, as the co-founder and creative director of a 3,000-member creative AI community, and inside generative AI tools since 2022.
Local Creator Showcase
Sarah Deragon
Sarah Deragon is a San Francisco Bay Area photographer and educator working at the intersection of portraiture, identity, and emerging technology. After picking up a camera in her 30s, she built Portraits to the People, a brand specializing in non-corporate headshots, online dating photos and photography for tech brands. She specializes in photographing people who hate it, helping folks discover what it feels like to actually be seen. In 2014 she launched The Identity Project, documenting LGBTQ+ identity across the US, Taiwan, and Russia. The work has appeared on Smirnoff's limited-edition Pride bottles and covered an entire NYC subway station as part of Harry's Pride campaign. Sarah works out of her own studio in Sausalito and writes weekly on Substack about something she finds genuinely complicated: using AI tools in her work while holding real concerns about how they were built.
Host
Sr. Community Events Manager
Meghan Arnold
Meghan works at the intersection of marketing, design, and technology —with a focus on building and nurturing communities. In her nearly 10 years at Adobe, she's connected with thousands of creatives through hundreds of events, placed design speakers at everything from small meetups to conference stages, developed and executed large-scale installations at Adobe MAX, led internal and external campaigns, and played a key role in the launch of Adobe Fonts.
Events Logistics Coordinator
Madison Laurence
Madison is a detail driven Event Coordinator for Adobe, crafting visions into unforgettable moments that spark connection and enthusiasm. With her eye for detail and passion of creativity, she brings every event to life with purpose and personality. Madison is dedicated to creating a smooth and engaging event.
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