Spark Events

Join Carrie Hamilton on a guided tour of some of her favorite signage in New York City’s garment district.

Get the inside scoop direct from companies that hire design firms and learn what they look for.

Includes Admission, private tour, and a picnic in Central Park from 3:30-5:00PM

Join us for a conversation with David Jalbert-Gagnier, Co-Founder and Creative Director of Objective Subject.

Join Ilise Benun and learn how you can take some of the stress out of proposals. Don't miss this opportunity to change how you approach the proposal process!

Besides measuring e-commerce sales or page visits, how do you know the website is doing its job? Learn how to maximize the ROI for the websites you create.

How does your pricing measure up against others? Estimate several sample projects and see what everyone else thinks it should cost! Past iterations of this workshop have been known to completely transform participant's businesses.

Come learn how to improve how you present and negotiate your fees, including retainer relationships and value-based pricing.

Come early and bring yourself, your business cards, and the vendors you love to our annual festive holiday networking event!

Our panel of experts will discuss their experience with the victories and challenges of partnering with outside development partners.

Join us for a conversation with Douglas Riccardi of MEMO as he shares his insights from over 20 years running an independent studio.

Don’t miss this opportunity to transform your design business!

Leave work early and join us for our annual summer field trip.

Business coach Justine Clay gives you networking best practices, then we have an open networking event immediately afterwards!

If you love the Spark community, want to take your business to the next level, and expand your connections with leading colleagues, Evolve Symposium is right for you!

Wish it were easier to attract and close high-quality clients for your design business? Working hard and not getting the number or quality of clients that you really want?

Rob will share 5 steps in re-building meaningful differentiation, re-defining client engagement, re-calculating compensation and re-establishing our integrity.

Come early and bring yourself, your business cards, and the vendors you love to the Spark Design Professionals annual festive holiday networking event!

The session will bring people up the learning curve as well as provide tangible next steps that may be implemented for clients and your own web properties.

Would you like to take a more active role in shaping the programming that we offer?Do you have ideas for events that our community of design business owners would appreciate?