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February

February 24 - 25

FITC Amsterdam 2020

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands

Now in its 13th year, FITC Amsterdam features the world’s most innovative, technical and creative talks that will inspire you to pursue your dreams and create your very best work. You’ll have the opportunity to meet and mingle with like-minded individuals who have the potential to become key collaborators throughout your career. Connect with people who share your creative passion, whether in the exhibitor hall or at one of the legendary after-parties. Who knows, you could meet your next business partner, employee, mentor or boss at FITC.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Aramique
Beeple
Matt DesLauriers
Jared Ficklin
Vera-Maria Glahn
Timothy Goodman
Joyce N. Ho
David Hogue
Hayley Hughes
Anna Kipnis
Valtteri Laihanen
Christian Mio Loclair
Dot Lung
Justin Maller
OUCHHH
Playmodes
Mate Steinforth
Gavin Strange
Carl Sziebert
Tina Touli
Timoni West
Ruben Verborgh
Lisa Walters

🎟 Tickets

SUPER EARLY BIRD €239 Ends Dec 1, 2019 EARLY BIRD €299 Ends Jan 19, 2020 REGULAR €399 After Jan 19, 2020 STUDENT - CONFERENCE €129 Two full days and nights (Feb 24-25)
Promocode: Save 10% with discount code 'neonmoire'

February 26 - 28

Design Indaba Conference 2020

📍 Cape Town , South Africa

2oth Anniversary of Design Indaba! Design Indaba is an annual conference and digital platform with an aim to help create a better world through creativity.

February 27 - 29

LADFEST - Latin American Design

📍 Lima, Peru

The sixth edition of Latin American Design Festival LADFEST, gathering in Lima with recognized designers from Latin America and the world. LADFEST will be held in Teatro Municipal de Lima. The festival features lectures, workshops, exhibitions, and the Latin American Design Awards ceremony and a closing party. More than 14 speakers on the stage of almost all design disciplines, don’t miss it!

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Hey
Catalina Bu
After

🎟 Tickets

Mega early bird $85 Early bird $95 Regular $105 Students $55

March

March 04 - 06

Leading Design SF

📍 San Francisco, USA

Leading Design brings together experts who lead design teams, oversee design direction and instill a culture of design within their organizations. This will be the fifth year of Leading Design, organized by Clearleft.

🎟 Tickets

$1495

March 05

Creative Voices

📍 Zaventem, Belgium

The inaugural edition of Creative Voices a leadership conference for all who have a role to play in shaping our creative industry. With keynotes and personal talks from international creative leaders in the creative industries.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Laura Jordan Bambach
Liesbeth Dillen
Ali Hanan
Philippe Meunier
Taha Riani Achhab
Senta Slingerland
Laura Visco

🎟 Tickets

€280

March 07

TOCA ME

📍 Munich, Germany

TOCA ME is an one day design conference. Full of inspiration, from graphic design, illustration and typography to creative coding, net art and artificial intelligence.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Yuko Shimizu
Joëlle Snaith
Erik Kessels
Christian Mioloclair
Uber Eck
Daniel Kuhnlein
Christoph Grünberger
Mates
Rafael Bernardo
Rosa Kammermeier
Soda

🎟 Tickets

€ 129

March 12 - 13

OFFF Bogota

📍 Bogotá, Colombia

For the first time OFFF Festival in South America and Colombia. OFFF Festival is an international and leading festival, with a focus on digital creativity, graphic and audiovisual disciplines, immersive experiences and trends and technological innovation.

🎟 Tickets

700.000

March 12 - 13

Forward Festival Munich

📍 Munich, Germany

The Forward Festival stands for interesting talks and personal interaction with the most renowned minds from the fields of design, creativity, and communication, who reveal their experiences, personal success, and learnings to the audience. Stay tuned for more info, it's going to be a festival season full of pleasant surprises!

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Rodeo FX / Thomas Hullin of Rodeo FX

Alex Jenkins of Nexus Studio

Yifei Chai of Unit9

International Magic

🎟 Tickets

Student Early Bird Ticket: 75,00€ Student Ticket: 95,00€ Early Access Mega Early Bird Ticket: 135,00€ Mega Early Bird Ticket: 145,00€ Early Bird Ticket: 175,00€ Regular Ticket: 199,00€ 4+1 Student Ticket: 76,00€ 4+1 Group Ticket: 159,20€ Late Bird Ticket: 249,00€ Irregular Ticket: 399,00€

March 13 - 22

South by Southwest (SXSW)

📍 Austin, United States

The South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference & Festivals celebrate the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries. Fostering creative and professional growth alike, SXSW® is the premier destination for discovery.

🎟 Tickets

From $ 375

March 13 - 14

TypeTech MeetUp Munich

📍 Munich, Germany

TypeTech MeetUp hosted by ATypI and GRANSHAN is a unique event during the Munich Creative Business Week (MCBW), where communities of font engineers and designers, web designers and developers, industry experts and tech & business professionals gather in a relaxed atmosphere.

🎟 Tickets

€0–120
Promocode: NEONMOIRETTM10

March 16 - 20

FLA: Design Thinking & Innovation Week

📍 London, United Kingdom

Design Thinking & Innovation Week created by Future London Academy is a 5-day programme for creative entrepreneurs, designers and business owners – introducing you to London's most innovative businesses and uncovering the latest approaches to design thinking and innovation. Every day will consist of lectures, round tables and visits to the top companies who adopted the human-centered approach, where you will meet the teams behind their latest research and innovation.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Harri Nieminen
Ekaterina Solomeina

🎟 Tickets

£2,200

March 19 - 21

IAM Weekend 2020

📍 Barcelona, Spain

6th edition of IAM Weekend. It's a one of a kind annual event that discovers, inspires and interconnects diverse perspectives on the post-technological futures of everything: from work, design and power to media, education and the arts. This years research theme is "The Weirdness of Interdependencies"

🎟 Tickets

From €99

March 23 - 27

Malofiej Conference 2020

📍 Pamplona, Spain

The 28th Infographics World Summit will be held in Pamplona at the School of Communication at the University of Navarra, Spain. For seven days Pamplona becomes the world capital of infographics. As every year, the 28th Infographics World Summit will offer a special program and the book Malofiej 27 be presented, which features the works from the previous year’s event.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Shazna Nessa
Julia Wolfe
Harkanwal Singh
Lynn Cherny
Fernando Ciucchetti
Haeyoun Park
Aaron Williams
Amanda Montañez
Saulo Santana
Delphine Papin
Chineme Okafor
Catherine Qian Ma
Jane Pong
Sara Sprinkhuizen
Anna Wiederkehr

🎟 Tickets

Before December 31th 300€ Before January 31th 340€ Before February 29th 380€ Regular registration 420€

March 27

Type Drives Culture Conference 2020

📍 New York, USA

Under the motto Formation, the Type Drives Culture 2020 conference tackles the role of design in our systems-based world. Communication and type design has witnessed a profound shift from the creation of artifacts to the creation of systems that respond to time, media, and user interaction. Parametric typography, variable fonts, design-on-demand, algorithms, and artificial intelligence have altered the landscape of type and design to expand how, what, and why we make. If form—as expressed through design—tells a story of time, of place, and of tools, what does it say about who we are today? Where will it live and how will it be experienced? What is the future of form, form-making, and our field?

🎟 Tickets

$150

March 30 - 01 Apr

AIGA Design Conference 2020

📍 Pittsburgh, United States

The AIGA Design Conference brings the design community together to experience provocative speakers, local culture, nightly networking receptions, competitions, exhibitions, professional development sessions and face-to-face roundtables with your design heroes.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Giorgia Lupi of Pentagram

Tim Allen of Airbnb

Rumman Chowdhury of Accenture Applied Intelligence

David Carroll of Parsons School of Design

Greg Lutze of VSCO

Giselle Guerrero of Impossible Foods

Jodi Forlizzi of Carnegie Mellon University

Gene Lee of Mailchimp

Sarah Gibbons of Nielsen Norman Group

Brad Frost of Brad Frost Web

Stefanie Posavec

Jason Fried, of Basecamp

Richard Ting of R/GA

Roman Mars of 99% Invisible

🎟 Tickets

Nonmember prices! Through October 23, 2019: $1,095. October 24, 2019 through January 22, 2020: $1,295. January 23 through March 25, 2020: $1,495. Prices for members, educators and students are cheaper.

March 30 - 31

UX Copenhagen 2020

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark

The sixth edition of UX Copenhagen a premium, two-day conference for professionals working with and around User Experience (UX) Design. You will hear about some of the newest trends in UX and Design, presented by a diverse panel of speakers ranging from gurus to people new to the field, from companies that range from being front-runners in User Experience to those who are just starting to create UX teams. UX Copenhagen always feature startups and strive to bring in speakers and participants who are taking User Experience to a new level. This year the conference focus on "Influence & Designing for Good"

🎟 Tickets

DKK 6000

April

April 02 - 05

STRP Festival 2020

📍 Eindhoven, Netherlands

STRP Festival is a critical optimistic exploration into positive futurism and the role that artists and technology can play. The festival initiates, produces and presents innovative art and visions whereby creative technology has a significant role.

April 02 - 04

Creative South

📍 Columbus, GA, USA

In 2020, Creative South celebrates its 10th year anniversary. Creative South is a weekend of creative thinking, collaboration, and exploration. Attendees enjoy workshops, talks focused on process and experience, and meeting old friends as well as making new ones. Creative South's goal is to connect you to folks in the industry and the design community. It's also a whole lot of fun!

🎟 Tickets

Early Bird $370 General $475 Student/Educator $264 Live Stream $105

April 02 - 03

S-H-O-W conference

📍 Utrecht, The Netherlands

S-H-O-W is an event on data visualisation in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The conference reaches out to designers, data analists, coders and communication experts who are interested in dataviz. There are speakers, workshops and pop-up sessions.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Hannah Davis
Shadi El Hajj
Andy Kirk
Lisa Charlotte Rost
Giovanni Magni
Katie Peek
Steve Haroz
Eventhia Dimara
Sandra Rendgen

🎟 Tickets

€ 395 (exempt from VAT)

April 03 - 05

Offset Dublin

📍 Dublin, Ireland

11th edition of OFFSET Dublin. OFFSET is a 3 day creative conference on creativity and bringing together the best in International and Irish creative talent in graphic design, illustration, street and fine art, film, photography, moving image and much, much more.

🎟 Tickets

Student Ticket €125 Recent Grad Ticket €170 Professional Ticket €245

April 07 - 11

-ing Creative Festival

📍 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

-ing Creative Festival is the event to attend this spring in Dubai, whether you want to kick off your career or simply stay ahead of the curve.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Stefan Sagmeister of Sagmeister Inc.

Mackey Saturday of Saturday

Shuya Gong of IDEO CoLab

Pum Lefebure of Design Army

Nicole Jacek & Noreen Morioka of Alternate Universe

🎟 Tickets

Start at $329 USD
Promocode: Early bird discounts available now. Prices go up on 20 February.

April 16 - 17

Forward Festival Vienna powered by Magenta

📍 Vienna, Austria

The Forward Festival stands for interesting talks and personal interaction with the most renowned minds from the fields of design, creativity and communication, who reveal their experiences, personal success and learnings to the audience. Next to presentations and talks, the extensive program consists of workshops, student talks, after show parties, live performances and happenings as well as the expo area. This program will once again be expanded for the 5th anniversary and will offer many specials and surprises for its visitors.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Gerfried Stocker of Ars Electronica

Micol Talso of Toiletpaper Magazine

Hartmut Esslinger

Max Siedentopf of KesselsKramer

Daan Lucas of Random Studio

🎟 Tickets

€ 199 Regular € 95 Student

April 19 - 21

FITC Toronto 2020

📍 Toronto, Canada

19th year of #FITCToronto! It’s the Future of Innovation, Technology, and Creativity in Toronto. FITC Toronto is a professional celebration of the best the world has to offer in design, digital development, media and innovation in creative technologies – three days and nights of presentations, parties, installations and performances that unite and transform the industry.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Krys Blackwood of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Matt DesLauriers

Maxime Des Roches of La Grange

Chris Do of The Futur

David Eriksson of North Kingdom

Hoss Gifford of Hoss Gifford

Hilal Koyuncu of Google

Jess Lee of Google

Erin Sarofsky of Sarofsky Corp

Basheer Tome of Google

Tiffany Tse of Shopify

Martin Vézina of La Grange

🎟 Tickets

$799
Promocode: Save $200 off your ticket with discount code with discount code 'neonmoire'

April 20 - 24

SmashingConf SF

📍 San Francisco, USA

The Smashing Conference is a four-day event for professional web designers and web developers.

🎟 Tickets

Super Early Bird — 399 USD Early Bird — 499 USD Regular — 599 USD Last Tickets — 699 USD Workshop — 499 USD Conference + 1 Workshop Ticket — 998 USD Conference + 2 Workshop Tickets — 1397 USD

April 23 - 25

c/o pop convention

📍 Cologne, Germany

The c/o pop Convention in Cologne will once again take place at the same time as the c/o pop Festival from April 23 to 25, 2020

🎟 Tickets

€160

April 23 - 25

OFFF Barcelona 2020

📍 Barcelona, Spain

20th edition of OFFF Barcelona. Born as a post-digital culture festival, now feeding the future through a 3-day design conferences, workshops and performances by the most relevant artists of our time. OFFF hosts innovative and international talents to share their insightful experiences. It’s the key meeting point for all talents around the world to unite and collaborate.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

🎟 Tickets

Regular 199.65€ Early Bird 180.00€ Mega Early Bird 150.00€

April 27 - 29

beyond tellerrand // DÜSSELDORF 2020

📍 Düsseldorf, Germany

This is number 10! Ten editions of beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf. Join beyond tellerrand to celebrate 10 years of creativity, inspiration, learning and meeting with a lovely group of people each and every year. The main conference is taking place on Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th and as usual, beyond tellerrand has a lot of other things planned around those dates with side events and workshops. The organization, Marc Thiele, is planning some special surprises for the 10th edition. Not sure what it is going to be, but let’s find out … Get your tickets from September 30th, 2019 on. See you in Düsseldorf!

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

🎟 Tickets

Early Bird €199 Regular Pass €299

May

May 04 - 07

HOW Design Live

📍 Boston, USA

Now more than ever, designers have the opportunity to change the world. HOW? A new paradigm is emerging that asks not what the future holds for design, but questions HOW we want to live as a society. Designers have the unique ability to envision, design, and imagine a better world. Massive shifts are underway for brands in the areas of sustainability, circularity, politics, activism, cultural movements, big data, and emerging technology, but HOW do we thrive in a world disrupted by so much change?

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Chase Jarvis
Boyuan Gao and Jahan Mantin
Stephen Gates
Johnny Cupcakes
Cey Adams
Emily Oberman
Brian Buirge and Jason Bacher
and many more.

🎟 Tickets

$295-$1.695
Promocode: Register with code NEONMOIRE for 10% off a Big Ticket registration.

May 06 - 09

and& Leuven

📍 Leuven, Belgium

Second edition of and&. and& is a one of a kind summit & festival at the intersection of health, high-tech and creativity. and& is bound by the desire to make cities of the future a better place to live in. Curated for the curious, and& champions a well-selected worldwide collage of thinkers, inventors, entrepreneurs, citizens & artists of all backgrounds.

🎟 Tickets

May 13 - 17

Pictoplasma Conference & Festival 2020 Berlin

📍 Berlin, Germany

The 16th annual Pictoplasma Berlin Festival awaits all international character pioneers, creators, artists, newcomers, and enthusiasts for a special 5-day celebration of contemporary character design and art!

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Genie Espinosa
Joseph Melhuish
Niki Lindroth von Bahr
Sarina Nihei
Will Anderson

🎟 Tickets

May 15 - 16

Fontstand 2020 Conference

📍 Dublin, Ireland

3rd edition of Fontstand. Fontstand International Typography Conference is a two-way conference, a forum where not only you can learn from the speakers, but where the speakers also hope to learn about your experience with using or licensing type, the challenges you face, and ideas you may have.

🎟 Tickets

100 + vat

May 19 - 21

D&AD Festival

📍 London, United Kingdom

Fifth edition of D&AD Festival, a three-day immersion in the world’s best craft, creativity and culture for the global creative industries.

🎟 Tickets

From £350

May 20 - 23

The Design Conference 2020

📍 Brisbane, Australia

The Design Conference is an event for creatives. They discuss more than the future of design — but what design means in the hearts and minds of the world's favorite creative leaders. By being transparent and vulnerable, The Design Conference engineers an experience that is designed to move, motivate, educate and connect.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Launching December 4 2020

🎟 Tickets

Ultra Early (May 2019) — Save 50% Super Early (Dec 2019) — Save 40% Early (Jan 2020) — Save 20%
Promocode: 20% Off Coupon launching March 15.

May 21

WXG

📍 Guildford, UK

Now in its eighth year, WXG is an all-day tech conference exploring what we can achieve when we work together.

🎟 Tickets

£180.00

May 21 - 23

Semi Permanent Sydney

📍 Sydney, Australia

Three-day conference Semi Permanent brings together internationally renowned designers, artists & creative icons for live events, presentations, workshops & parties. In 2020 Semi Permanent explores the theme Restless

May 22 - 24

Amsterdam Lettering Weekend

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands

During the Amsterdam Lettering Weekend four lettering artists will teach you different aspects of professional lettering and sign painting. Three full days to learn, four workshops to choose from.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Liane Barker of Brush and Pen Studio

Gaston Castagnet of Gaston the Painter

Gustavo Ferrari of Ferrari Fileteados

Pieter Snijders of Bold Statements

🎟 Tickets

1-Day tickets: €145 (including tax) 3-Day ticket: €390 (including tax)

May 27 - 28

Gather 2020

📍 Stockholm, Sweden

Gather is not your average conference or music festival. It investigates society and its future, embraces complexity and bursts filter bubbles to offer inspiring and unexpected experiences for the curious minds. Gather hosts some of the most interesting speakers and artists active in the world today.

🎟 Tickets

3450 SEK + 25% vat

May 28 - 30

Berlin Letters

📍 Berlin, Germany

Berlin Letters is a festival for lettering, sign painting, calligraphy and type design. Three days of exchange and inspiration for designers and all font enthusiasts - with great speakers, professional workshops and Halligalli. For listening, watching, hand-laying. And of course to meet people and networks.

🎟 Tickets

300

May 28 - 29

Playgrounds Blend

📍 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Fest & conference on cutting edge creativity - expect vanguard artist talks, portfolio reviews and recruitment, an expo by leading international illustrators and designers, good food and drinks, and much more! Imagine everything.

🎟 Tickets

Super Early Bird - until 31 Jan €50 - full pass Early Bird – 1 Feb t/m 17 April €70 - full pass Available from 15 March - €40 - day tickets Studio Tickets €50 - full pass (not available as day ticket) Regular Tickets - 18 April - 28 May €85 - full pass €50 - day tickets Educational ticket – for students, teachers, tutors €30 – full pass €17,50 – day tickets (available from 15 March)

May 29

CXI Brand Conference

📍 Bielefeld, Germany

The 12th edition of CXI Brand talks! CXI is a one-day brand and corporate identity event organized by Bielefeld School of Design. During the sessions questions like "What defines the effectiveness of a corporate identity project?", "What exactly is needed, from both client and agency?", and "how can such a complex process be implemented in a way that works?" will be addressed, next to showcasing re-designs for big brands.

🎟 Tickets

Students: € 15

May 29

Forward Festival Berlin

📍 Berlin, Germany

The festival unites both industry-leading and aspiring creatives with its talks and workshops and yet it is more than just another creative happening. Forward is inspired by its hometown’s vibrant history of Viennese Modernism, where diverse disciplines influenced each other. By bringing this idea into the present, the festival is all about connecting, exchanging and being part of an exciting experience.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Stefan Sagmeister

Erik Kessels of KesselsKramer

Jonathan Castro

Marcus Wendt & Vera-Maria Glahn of Field

🎟 Tickets

Student Early Bird Ticket: 75€ Student Ticket: 95€ Early Access Mega Early Bird Ticket: 119€ Mega Early Bird Ticket: 129€ Early Bird Ticket: 155€ Regular Ticket: 179€ 4+1 Student Ticket: 76€ 4+1 Group Ticket: 143€ Late Bird Ticket: 359€ Irregular Ticket: 229€

May 30 - 31

UXcamp Europe

📍 Berlin, Germany

The 2020 edition of the largest unconference for UX Professionals in Europe 500+ active participants from all over the world meet for inspiration, networking and lots of fun in Berlin every year.

🎟 Tickets

Free (via lottery)

June

June 03 - 05

99U Conference 2020

📍 New York, United States

The 99U Conference is to shift the focus from idea generation to idea execution. Learn from the world’s top thinkers and doers in a series of main stage talks over two days. 99U speakers offer pragmatic, real-world insights that transcend creative sectors. This will be the 12th edition.

🎟 Tickets

US $ 999

June 08 - 11

Eyeo Festival 2020

📍 Minneapolis , United States

Since 2011, the annual Eyeo Festival brings together creative coders, data designers, and creators working at the intersection of data, art & technology for talks, workshops, labs, and events.

🎟 Tickets

Festival Pass $679 Pre-Conference All-Day Workshop(s) $315

June 08 - 11 Jul

TypeParis

📍 Paris, France

TypeParis is a 5-week typeface design program, which started in 2015. The programme is in English and covers the learning of know-how in typeface design and calligraphy techniques, type history, and modern software practices.

🎟 Tickets

Promocode: Application deadline 14 March 2020

June 11 - 12

CSS Day 2020 + dsgnday

📍 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

CSS Day (12th of June) will feature sessions by seven world-class speakers about curious, badly-known, or otherwise interesting CSS features. dsgnday (11th of June) does the same, but for design and UX. Make no mistake, this is an advanced conference. We ask our speakers to treat CSS and design topics that they themselves, as well as the attendees, can geek out on.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Adam Argyle
Ana Ferreira
Chen Hui Jing
Chris Mills
Lynn Fisher
Maike Klip
Michelle Barker
Miriam Suzanne
Peter Boersma
Razvan Caliman
Stephen Hay & Umar Hansa

🎟 Tickets

€600

June 12

Pixel Pioneers Bristol 2020

📍 Bristol, United Kingdom

Back for the fourth time, Pixel Pioneers is an affordable community conference for front-end developers and UX/UI designers, featuring some of the industry's brightest minds.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Charlie Gerard
Val Head
Paul Boag

🎟 Tickets

Standard £125

June 15 - 16

Adobe Max Europe

📍 Lisbon, Portugal

Adobe MAX, The Creativity Conference for the first time in Europe. Next to inspiring speakers, the Creative Cloud product teams share their latest innovations.

🎟 Tickets

Regular €645

June 20 - 03 Jul

Design West Summer School

📍 Letterfrack , Ireland

Design West — Ireland’s exciting new International Design Summer School, set in Connemara on the Wild Atlantic Way, is now open for applications. Design West facilitates both individual and collaborative approaches to the making of 2D and 3D design expressions, including visual communication, installations, abstract and environmental design.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Erik Brandt
Brankica Harvey
Conor Clarke

🎟 Tickets

€1800
Promocode: The final deadline for applications is Friday 22 May 2020.

June 22 - 26

FLA: Future of Branding Week

📍 London, United Kingdom

Future of Branding Week created by Future London Academy is an immersive 5-day programme that explores how brands can express themselves using new channels and evolving technologies and create design that will last for generations. The programme includes talks, round-table discussions, fireside chats, mini-workshops, studio visits and case study deep dives. With topics ranging from trend forecasting, brand innovation and new tech to custom typography, SMM and design trends – you will be able to get a fresh perspective on branding and learn new strategic tools. You will also have a unique opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at the most influential agencies in London and spend a week with 25 inspiring fellow creatives from around the world.

🎟 Tickets

£2,200

June 25 - 26

Content by Design

📍 London, United Kingdom

Inaugural edition of Content by Design. Two days of talks and workshops focused on the role of content within the design process. Aimed at UX writers, designers, and those leading multi-disciplinary teams, we’ve lined up some of the best in the business to share their stories.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Harry Ashbridge
Jonathon Colman
Kristina Halvorson
Amy Hupe
Anna Pickard
Torrey Podmajersky
Lauren Pope
Sarah Richards
Ben Sauer
Elaine Short
Andy Welfle
Candi Williams

🎟 Tickets

From £375

June 25 - 26

Content by Design

📍 London, UK

Content by Design is one of the first UK events for content design and UX writing professionals. It will provide 2 days of inspiration, practical advice and skills development, with a mix of talks and hands-on workshops from some of the biggest names in the industry.

🎟 Tickets

Standard Talks Only £595+VAT on sale until 30 Apr Full Price Talks Only £645+VAT Standard 2 Day £695+VAT on sale until 30 Apr Full Price 2 Day £795+VAT

June 28 - 01 Jul

ICON Conference

📍 Kansas City, USA

Since 1999, ICON, the Illustration Conference, brings together top illustrators, designers, educators, representatives, and art buyers to explore the future of illustration. With more than 60 speakers on stage over four days, ICON is committed to providing a diverse forum for an ongoing dialogue that serves the illustration, design, publishing, advertising, and academic communities.

🎟 Tickets

Tickets will be available soon.

July

July 02 - 03

Forward Festival Hamburg

📍 Sankt Pauli, Hamburg, Germany

The Forward Festival stands for interesting talks and personal interaction with the most renowned minds from the fields of design, creativity, and communication, who reveal their experiences, personal success, and learnings to the audience. Stay tuned for more info, it's going to be a festival season full of pleasant surprises!

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Drieke Leenknegt

Adam Rodgers, Stefan Endress & Ben McKinnon of International Magic

Kim Boutin & David Broner of DVTK

Jonathan Castro

🎟 Tickets

Student Early Bird Ticket: 75€ Student Ticket: 95€ Early Access Mega Early Bird Ticket: 175€ Mega Early Bird Ticket: 175€ Early Bird Ticket: 235€ Regular Ticket: 299€ 4+1 Student Ticket: 76€ 4+1 Group Ticket: 239€ Late Bird Ticket: 359€ Irregular Ticket: 399€

July 15 - 16

Awwwards Conferences 2020 Toronto

📍 Toronto, Canada

Multiple times a year Awwwards organize a Digital Thinkers Conference. Showcasing, in iconic location, digital visionaries, thought leaders, top agencies and designers from across the world to share their secrets, and open new dialogues about the future of the web.

🎟 Tickets

C$ 650,00

July 30

Design + Diversity Conference

📍 St. Louis, MO, USA

Design + Diversity Conference inspires, celebrates and promotes not only diversity in design, but the diversity of design.

🎟 Tickets

US $399,46

August

August 10 - 14

FLA: UX & Digital Design Week

📍 London, United Kingdom

UX and Digital Design Week created by Future London Academy is a 5-day programme that will give you inspiration for your current projects and advice on how to build a design team of your dreams. You will find out the secrets of what makes products successful and what mistakes companies made when they were building new services. Some people call the format a 'design safari', some say it's a VIP behind-the-scenes experience or a research trip. This is a very fresh way to learn and explore the industry. And the best part is – you will spend this week as a part of a small group of 30 like-minded entrepreneurs, UX designers and product managers from around the globe.

🎟 Tickets

£2,200

August 19 - 21

Loupe 2020

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands

Loupe is a conference organized by Framer, makers of design prototyping software Framer X. Back for its third year, Loupe 2020 will focus on prototyping in all its forms. Top designers and developers from all over the world will gather in Amsterdam this August to connect with one another, share ideas, and deepen their Framer knowledge. The conference will be split evenly between inspiring speaker talks and hands-on workshops. Plus, everything will kick-off and close with parties you won’t forget.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Sarah Brin
Mike Creighton
Ari Melenciano
Adekunle Oduye
Hilary Sedovic
Pedro Marques

🎟 Tickets

649 - Early Bird 249 - Scholarship pass 799 - Standard pass

August 24 - 27

beyond tellerrand // BERLIN 2020

📍 Berlin, Germany

Berlin’s no. 7. beyond tellerrand is back in Berlin to celebrate creativity and inspiration. Come and join us for motivating, thoughtful and educational talks, workshops and side events. The main show takes place on August 25th and 26th with workshops and side events around these two days. As you might recognize we moved the event from November to September and maybe we are able to use the lovely outside area of the venue as well this time. Registration opens January 20th, 2020.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Mario Klingemann

🎟 Tickets

Early Bird €199 Regular Pass €299

September

September 03 - 04

Clarity 2020

📍 New Orleans, USA

Clarity is the first conference fully dedicated to design systems (which includes style guides, pattern libraries, CSS frameworks, and design operations). While the focus is on design systems, past sessions have also included related topics like accessibility, motion design, and performance.

September 10 - 12

Semi Permanent Auckland

📍 Auckland, New Zealand

Three-day conference Semi Permanent brings together internationally renowned designers, artists & creative icons for live events, presentations, workshops & parties. In 2020 Semi Permanent explores the theme Restless

September 12 - 20

Global Design Forum

📍 London , United Kingdom

Global Design Forum is London Design Festival’s curated thought leadership program, celebrating design and the minds shaping its future. Taking place throughout the Festival at the V&A, the Forum features a unique mix of talks, debates, tours, and workshops that together reflects the most innovative thinking in the world of design today.

September 13 - 14

OFFF TLV 2020

📍 Tel Aviv, Isreal

The 4th edition of OFFF Tel Aviv. OFFF TLV is a visual design festival hosting innovative creative creators. They are a community inviting all those who are eager to learn to participate and get inspired in a two-day conferences journey of talks, workshops, and inspiration

September 23 - 24

Design Matters 20

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark

Design Matters is a 2-day conference on Digital Design. Created by designers, for designers! The design conference brings together practitioners from the best and most happening companies around the world for two days of design talks, workshops, discussions and socializing in Copenhagen.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Speakers

Catt Small
Joël van Bodegraven
Daria Loi

🎟 Tickets

September 24 - 26

Us by Night 5 - design & creativity festival

📍 Antwerp, Belgium

The 5th edition of Us by Night a design & creativity festival that turned into a unique night experience. With an inspiring lineup of 70+ artists and an endless market, it's guaranteed to provide you 3 nights you don't want to miss.

🎟 Tickets

Student Combi €110 Super Early Bird €110 (SOLD OUT) Early Bird €135 Regular €155 Regular Group (+10 tickets) €145

October

October 08 - 11

Bitscon

📍 Bangkok, Thailand

Bitscon, the only Typographic & Type Design Festival in South East Asia

October 10 - 11

OFFF Vienna

📍 Vienna, Austria

3rd edition of OFFF Vienna a Visual Design Festival. Offf connects, grows and inspires people through interdisciplinary art and creativity in order to boost knowledge exchange and collaboration.

🎟 Tickets

Mega Early Bird €129 Early Bird € 159 Regular €189

October 22 - 24

Digital Design Days

📍 Milano, Italy

Global meeting point of digital design industry

🎟 Tickets

199
Promocode: neonmoire

October 30 - 31

Semi Permanent Porto

📍 Porto, Portugal

First edition of Semi Permanent Porto. As the new European home of Semi Permanent, the program will include two-days of talks, exhibitions, installations, parties and experiences designed with the city, it's people and it's ideas in mind.

November

November 02 - 04

beyond tellerrand // MUNICH 2020

📍 Munich, Germany

We are back in Munich! Join us for the second edition in Munich after 2018. Two days with exciting talks plus workshops and Side Events around those two days. The core event, the conference with talks and 500+ people, is taking place on Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd of November 2020. Ticket sale starts April 1st. Stay tuned for more information soon.

🎟 Tickets

Early Bird €199 Regular Pass €299

November 05 - 08

KIKK Festival 2020

📍 Namur, Belgium

The 10th edition of KIKK, a multi-track festival on the intersection of art, science & tech to explore the economic and artistic implications of new technologies. The conference is on Thursday and Friday, all exhibitions are also open on Saturday and Sunday.The event gathers people of all backgrounds from all around the world. They are designers, scientists, makers, entrepreneurs, artists, architects, developers or musicians.

November 18 - 19

No Code Conf 2020

📍 San Francisco, USA

Second edition of No Code Conf 2020.

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