Helms Design Center
A Conversation with Katy Young Yaroslavsky: A New Generation Takes Over in Council District 5
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAThough Yaroslavsky’s last name has been familiar to Angelenos since the 1970s, Katy—the daughter-in-law of Zev—is a relative newcomer to city politics and brings a vision very different from that of her successor. The Westside Urban Forum is pleased to welcome Councilmember Yaroslavsky for a candid discussion with longtime journalist and civic observer Warren Olney, formerly of KCRW.
Giving Design’s Summer Fundraising Event
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAGiving Design, a 501(c)3 non-profit, invites you to join their biannual fundraising event. Celebrate summer with great company, delicious food, drinks, and live music, while helping to raise funds for community benefit projects. Your participation will support Giving Design’s efforts in providing quality design services to resource-challenged organizations.
Westside Urban Forum presents An Evening of Urbanism: Frances Anderton & Josh Stephens
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CALos Angeles was built imperfectly, at an imperfect time. Now it is trying to reinvent itself. Into what? That’s Topic A for authors Frances Anderton (Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles) and Josh Stephens (The Urban Mystique) when they sit down to talk about Los Angeles, community and urbanity today – from the house to the megalopolis.
Westside Urban Forum Breakfast Panel Discussion: California’s Duplex Revolution: Unpacking SB 9, The California HOME Act
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAJoin Westside Urban Forum for a panel discussing California's Duplex Revolution: Unpacking SB 9, The California HOME Act.
In 2021, the state legislature passed Senate Bill 9, which, according to the bill's strongest advocates and detractors alike, outlawed single-family zoning throughout California. The reality is a bit more subtle and complex.
LA Metro, LADOT, Walk ’n Rollers, and BikeLA host a community-based design workshop
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Join LA Metro, LADOT, Walk ’n Rollers, and BikeLA for a community- based design workshop and provide input on the proposed MAT Culver City First/Last Mile project list. The project aims to make the 1/2 mile radius around Culver City Metro Station easier to walk and bicycle. Limited availability.
Westside Urban Forum Breakfast Talk: Reviving Transit Ridership
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAOn Thursday, June 29th at 7:45 am, please join Westside Urban Forum at the Helms Design Center for a breakfast reception and discussion: Reviving Transit Ridership
Projecting “Design for the People”
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
PosterTerritory presents 70+ posters by international designers and graphic artists to celebrate design, creativity, inclusiveness, freedom and love, to coincide with this year’s theme.
California Dreaming
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
What does “California Dream” mean to you? That’s the question that will be addressed by designers, architects and audience members gathering at the Helms Design Center.
Susan Maddux Art Exhibition
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Los Angeles artist Susan Maddux uses origami-inspired folding to transform paintings, creating hybrid objects that exist in the space between painting and sculpture.
Design & Art In California, a curated collection of books by Cisco Home & Burntsienna Research Society
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Cisco Home and Burntsienna Research Society have curated a collection of books centered around Design & Art in California for the Los Angeles Design Festival.
Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip Hop Architecture Opening Party
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Join us in celebrating the launch of the acclaimed exhibition Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture at Helms Bakery District.
Curator Interview: Sekou Cooke
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Join us for a conversation with Sekou Cooke, curator of Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip Hop Architecture, and Nu Goteh of Deem Journal.
Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip Hop Architecture Curator Led Walk-Through
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Join the A+D Museum and curator Sekou Cooke for a walkthrough and insightful discussion of Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip Hop Architecture.
Foresight, Futuring, and Prospective Design
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Nu Goteh of Deem Journal in conversation with Radha Mistry about foresight as practice and industry.
Design & Art In California, a curated collection of books by Cisco Home & Burntsienna Research Society
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Cisco Home and Burntsienna Research Society have curated a collection of books centered around Design & Art in California for the Los Angeles Design Festival.
Illusionistic Design: Art Informed by the Visual and Emotional Effects of Color
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Curated by Saatchi Art. We will discuss the ways in which artists use principles of color theory to inform their art practice and ultimately how that affects the design space in which the artwork is placed.
Helms Bakery District Open Studio Tours
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Join the Helms Bakery District Showrooms for open studio tours. View the latest interior and exterior collections from each individual company and manufacturer.
Design & Art In California, a curated collection of books by Cisco Home & Burntsienna Research Society
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Cisco Home and Burntsienna Research Society have curated a collection of books centered around Design & Art in California for the Los Angeles Design Festival.
Creating Gen AI Tools with and for Designers
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Join members of the Adobe Design and Community teams for a very special event, as they host a conversation with local designers about the design process behind Adobe’s Gen AI tools.
The Latinx/e Experience in Design
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
A panel of Latinx/e Designer/Educators discuss their pathway to graphic design as students, professionals and educators.
Design & Art In California, a curated collection of books by Cisco Home & Burntsienna Research Society
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Cisco Home and Burntsienna Research Society have curated a collection of books centered around Design & Art in California for the Los Angeles Design Festival.
L.A. GOAL and Helms Bakery District present Moving Together, an Inclusive Art Exhibit
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
L.A. GOAL, a non-profit organization committed to creating opportunities and equity for adults with developmental disabilities so they can live more fulfilling lives, presents Moving Together, an inclusive art exhibit exploring the theme of "movement" through various art forms.
A reception, lecture, and discussion with Jennifer Bonner from MALL
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Join Cal Poly SLO LA Metro for a reception, lecture, and discussion with Jennifer Bonner: “Dollhouses, Candy, and Blanks OR Roof Plans, Domestic Still Lifes and Cross Laminated Timber”
A reception, lecture, and discussion with Nima Javidi and Behnaz Assadi of JA Architecture Studio
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
JA Architecture Studio, a Toronto-based practice led by Iranian-Canadian architect Nima Javidi and landscape designer Behnaz Assadi, combines the rootedness of a local architecture firm with the broad interests of an international design studio. From small to medium sized buildings that confront detail-level building constraints to ambitious international competitions, the studio’s work tries to find meaningful tangencies between iconographic, geometrical and formal properties of architecture of different backgrounds and invests in inventing new architectural hybrids as responses to the diverse realities of 21st century cities.
Westside Urban Forum Breakfast Talk: Al Fresco Dining in the Public Right-of-Way: Whose Space is it?
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAOn Thursday, May 18th at 7:45 am, please join Westside Urban Forum at the Helms Design Center for a breakfast reception and discussion about how different cities are responding to the shifting landscape of outdoor dining.
