Phoenix Design Week is a grassroots effort dreamed up by a single visual designer seeking to unite and strengthen the Phoenix metropolitan design community. His open letter to the Phoenix Design community gained immediate interest and support from the design community and further solidified the need for this event. Phoenix is a city full of eager, talented, and passionate designers, and Phoenix Design Week will be the first large-scale effort to bring them together around their shared love for visual design. The event is slated to gather graphic and interactive design individuals, design firms, and industry organizations to participate in a week’s worth of events to showcase Phoenix as the city with the most potential to change the world. The goal of helping local designers interact, collaborate, and learn from each other has reverberated within the valley because now is a perfect chance to come together and build a stronger creative community.