At Design Workshop, we shape places for future generations to thrive. Our team of over 160 employee-owners is committed to delivering demonstrable impact for the communities we serve. Through collaboration, research, creativity, and innovation, we help craft places of both real beauty and deep impact—stewarding meaningful engagement with spaces that
shape futures.
DW Legacy Design® is the defining element of our practice. It represents a commitment to rigorous standards of design inquiry that uncovers the right solution, not just the available one, for our clients, communities, and the environment. By assessing the possibilities of every project through four interconnected lenses: Environment, Community, Economics, and Art, we build a holistic framework for creating spaces that are resilient, meaningful, and enduring.
Digital Foundry is a boutique software engineering firm headquartered in Tiburon, California. For more than 30 years, we have partnered with enterprise organizations and government agencies to design, build, and modernize complex digital systems.
We specialize in the software that off-the-shelf tools can't solve and that large consulting firms struggle to deliver: mission-critical enterprise platforms, AI-enabled product systems, and the modernization of aging infrastructure that organizations depend on every day.
What We Build
Our core work spans five areas: custom enterprise software development, AI-enabled platform and agent system development, legacy system modernization, cloud-native platform engineering, and technical strategy and architecture consulting.
We build enterprise web applications, data platforms, API ecosystems, operational tools, LLM-powered interfaces, AI copilots, agentic software systems, and complex workflow automation platforms. We are increasingly focused on practical AI — building systems designed for production, not experimental settings.
How We Work
We operate with senior-led teams. Every engagement is led by experienced engineers and architects who take direct accountability for outcomes. Projects range from focused 4–12 week discovery and architecture engagements to multi-year platform development programs.
Who We Work With
Our clients are Fortune 1000 enterprises and government agencies across financial services, healthcare, energy and utilities, logistics, manufacturing, and the public sector. Representative clients include JPMorgan Chase, GEICO, Blue Cross Blue Shield, General Electric, National Grid, Comcast, Disney, American Express, and Visa.
We are typically engaged when programs are high-stakes, technically complex, or when prior efforts have stalled.
Digital Foundry: trusted engineering for complex digital systems.
[NEW ZINE] I made a new quick zine titled " Two Terms: Critical Making + D.I.Y. " that I will be launching at Florian Cramer's Making Matters Symposium that is hosted by Het Nieuwe Instituut in Den Haag from November 19th to 21st 2020. A PDF can also be downloaded for free at: http://conceptlab.com/2terms/pdf/hertz-2terms-202011181901.pdf . If you would like a handmade hardcopy of this book, mail a physical item - any item at all - to me and I will send you a copy as long as supplies last. Send the item with a note that includes your postal mailing address to: The Studio for Critical Making, Room C4246 The Making Matters Symposium is described as follows: The three day conference is organized by the workgroup Material Practices (formerly known as Critical Making). Recent years have seen the emergence of a new kind of collective material practices that transgress the classical opposition between theory and practice, or thinking and making. These practices actively engage with our catastrophic times and yield collaborations that connect cultural, technological and more-than-human concerns. They show a potential to develop a comprehensive approach to art, science and technologies, driven by the necessity to fundamentally reimagine the relationship of humans to the world. The conference brings together practitioners from various backgrounds and disciplines such as artistic research, experimental publishing, visual art, business and performance. These practitioners will share their work in which thinking and making are entangled, and will discuss the critical potential that this entanglement entails. Through online workshops and presentations, the contributors invite a broad audience of artists, activists, teachers, theorists, students, designers, etherpads and other non-humans, to engage with diverse subjects such as alternative economies, feral ecologies, shared authorship, xeno-biologies, pedagogies, publishing infrastructures and radical collectivities. [Glasgow International 2020] I am exhibiting in the ...