Mapping Festival

📍 Geneva, Switzerland

Geneva will welcome the 15th edition of the Mapping Festival from May 23 to May 26. A unique platform of diffusion in Switzerland, the festival is now considered as a major event in the field of digital art and enjoys an international reputation. Each year, the festival offers a rich variety of events and activities which bring to light the artistic potential of new technologies: workshops, audio-visual performances, exhibition, live, round tables, panel, DJ sets, etc. The festival is really one of a kind. Plus, this year, most events are free or “pay-what-you-want”.

Typomania 2019

📍 Moscow, Russia

Typomania is an annual type, typography, calligraphy and video event. The festival aims to collect and connect as many type fans as possible and turn them in to a professional community.

Fontstand International Typography Conference

📍 Porto, Portugal

On May 25, 2019, Fontstand is organize their second International Typography Conference. A day packed with presentations and discussions in Porto. Meet and learn from the world-class type designers and typographers from around the world, discussing the creation and use of type in the 21st century.

DesignThinkers Vancouver

📍 Vancouver, Canada

Over its 20 year history, the DesignThinkers Conference has spanned massive changes in the communication design industry. From print to digital, visual identity to brand, websites to user experiences, design has evolved as new trends, technologies and philosophies transform the wider world. DesignThinkers Vancouver explores the innovations and disruptions that inform, inspire and influence design, consider its impact and re-imagine its role as we confront fundamental global challenges.

UX London

📍 London, United Kingdom

UX London, now in it’s eleventh year, brings together the world’s leading design experts and practitioners for three days of inspirational talks and hands-on workshops. Clearleft, a Strategic Design Agency, based in sunny Brighton has curated the schedule so you will spend your mornings gaining unique insights from influential speakers from around the globe. In the afternoon you’ll get the chance to roll up your sleeves in the workshop of your choice, not to mention sampling fantastic street food and spending time with the UX community at our evening events. You’ll head home with new ideas, practical skills that you can apply straight away and brilliant connections with fellow UXers the world over.

First Session

📍 Helsinki, Finland

The conference will offer new ideas and knowledge for professionals, creators and artists of all medias and arts. First Session will help you envision how to immerse and enthrall your audience or customers. First Session will be exploring technologies such as virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence, projection mapping and spatial sound – the latest trends in audio, visual, and spatial art.

First Round

📍 San Francisco, United States

A one-day showcase of original presentations made to clients showing initial design explorations for logo, identity, and branding projects. Speakers will share their first-round presentation process by showing the original PDF/Keynote/PPT file that they presented to a client the very first time they saw a range of design explorations (or a single design exploration). Organized by Under Consideration

Eyeo Festival 2019

📍 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.

Layers

📍 San Jose, United States

Layers is a design and technology conference. For designers and non-designers alike, they showcase design fundamentals for industry newcomers and advanced ideas for seasoned professionals. With thoughtful content, and generous snacks.

Kerning 2019

📍 Faenza, Italy

Kerning an annual conference dedicated to typography and web typography. With 2-day hands-on workshops and one conference day. Kerning is a non-profit event.

European Design Festival 2019

📍 Warsaw, Poland

14th edition of the European Design Festival. This year the roaming festival takes place in Warsaw, which for a couple of days will become the European capital of graphic design. The event will take place between 6th and 9th of June and will be abundant with inspiring lectures, exhibitions, workshops, graphic design studio tours, film screenings, as well as formal galas of two competitions for graphic designers. The festival aims to promote European and Polish design and to present the latest tendencies and practices that are worth following. The organisers await both professionals and design aficionados searching for inspirations for creative action and time spending.

Pixel Pioneers Bristol 2019

📍 Bristol, United Kingdom

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

This time speakers include Bristol residents Rachel Andrew and Jon Tan as well as international presenters Phil Hawksworth, Verne Ho, Lisi Linhart, and Chen Hui Jing. We’ll cover CSS layouts, DevTools, modern web development with the JAMstack, web animations, conversational design and much more.

The conference is preceded by a choice of two full-day workshops on 6 June:

Birmingham Design Festival

📍 Birmingham, United Kingdom

Birmingham Design Festival debuted with dozens of talks, workshops, screenings and exhibitions, inviting the local community and beyond to immerse themselves for four days of a jam-packed programme that was sure to delight and surprise. Tired of the extortionate prices charged for design conferences and events, their goal is to provide an affordable experience for every visitor whilst still maintaining high quality. Most of the events at the Birmingham Design Festival are free to attend or very low-cost, meaning they’re accessible to everyone regardless of their position on the career ladder.

Sensorium

📍 Bratislava, Slovakia

The annual festival facilitates discussion at the conference, showcases ground-breaking performances & installations and provides education through workshops and labs. The conference invites national and international speakers from multidisciplinary fields to discuss new work, share common challenge and inspire new ideas.

CXI Brand Conference

📍 Bielefeld, Germany

The 11th 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-design for big brands.

By Design Conference

📍 Bratislava, Slovakia

By Design Conference is a international conference for designers, entrepreneurs and creative minds. The one day event focus on design and business.

TypeParis 2019

📍 Paris, France

Type@Paris is a 5-week typeface design program, which started in 2015.

Over the course of the program, industry leaders will teach and mentor students in both traditional and modern craft techniques of typeface design.

Located in the center of Paris, students will be able to enjoy the culture of the city and will also receive access to historic materials at key libraries in the city. Renowned guest critics, will compliment the daily program with unique perspectives around typography and design.

Border Sessions

📍 The Hague, Netherlands

Border Sessions is a progressive platform at the intersection of technology, society, art, and science. We unite people (creative pioneers!) and organizations to address urgent social, societal and environmental issues. Over the course of 4 days, you can explore an extensive programme with labs, summits, a festival night, movies, meetups, and a kids programme in the center of The Hague. With 30+ speakers during the festival night, June 13th and 30+ labs & summits and other special events.

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. 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.

Hours Beirut

📍 Beirut, Lebanon

Hours Beirut is a three day exploration through talks, workshops, music and food on how maintenance and the act of maintaining can be understood in the context of new innovation and creativity.

CSS Day 2019 + UI Special

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands

The seventh edition of this advanced CSS conference & UI Special. UI Special on Thursday, and a regular deep-diving CSS Day on Friday.

Typographics

📍 New York, United States

Typographics is a design festival for people who use type. 5th edition of this annual event devoted to contemp­orary typo­graphy, with talks, work­shops, and tours focusing on where typo­graphy is today and where its future may lie. It will be held at The Cooper Union in New York City.

Forward Festival Zurich

📍 Zurich, Switzerland

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.

Design West Summer School

📍 Letterfrack, Ireland

Design West is an international summer design school located in the beautiful village of Letterfrack in Connemara, on the West Coast of Ireland. For two weeks this summer, participants got the opportunity to work with leading international designers from renowned studios across Europe.

SmashingConf Toronto 2019

📍 Toronto, Canada

Second edition of SmashingConf Toronto. At this event Smashing will explore the bright and dark sides of front-end and UX — responsive HTML email, naming conventions, security audits, GDPR and privacy, responsive art direction, front-end architecture, rendering performance, CSS Grid Layout, PWA, Vue.js, Webpack and how to set up bulletproof contracts. Plus a bunch of hands-on workshops on design, front-end and UX.

Pattern Day

📍 Brighton, United Kindom

A one-day event for web designers and developers on design systems, pattern libraries, style guides, and components.

Porto Design Summer School

📍 Porto, Portugal

The Porto Design Summer School, now in its 7th edition, is an intensive two week workshop led by renowned international graphic designers where participants can explore the creative possibilities of editorial design, by examining typographic systems, hierarchy and composition, narrative structure, navigation, cover design, editing and notions of authorship.

Forward Festival Hamburg

📍 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. 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.

OSF Congress

📍 Düsseldorf, Germany

The OSF Congress was created in 2018 as an extension of the Open Source Festival (OSF) - a music and creativity festival that has existed since 2000 - in terms of both content and time. The festival has long been a platform for all directions of artistic practice, whether music, visual arts, fashion, design, photography, architecture or performance, and sees itself as a place for experimentation and communication. On the day before the festival and within the already established festival setting on the horse race track in Düsseldorf, the OSF Congress invites creative open-air exchange with around 25 international and interdisciplinary speakers in keynotes, talks, and panels. Experience OSF Congress 30 interdisciplinary speakers from all over the world on a unique outdoor festival ground: in keynotes, talks and panels on four stages and in the beer garden.

OffGrid Sessions

📍 Osea Island, United Kingdom

OffGrid Sessions is a conference that brings together the interested and interesting. With walks, talks, ideas & workshops all on our own island for 48 hours.

Clarity 2019

📍 San Francisco, United States

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.

Festa Del Grafisme

📍 Portbou, Spain

The 12th Festa del Grafisme and the 2nd edition of Tallers de la Festa at the end of summer. Tallers de la Festa is a gathering with some of the best professionals and professors from the national and international levels to inspire the participants during a week. The festival encourage experimentation and encourage participants (teachers, professionals and students) to investigate new workshop formats both in terms of content and work methodologies.

The conference

📍 Malmö, Sweden

Ninth edition of The Conference. A two-day exploration of complexity in our digital world. The curated sessions help you connect the dots between the widespread disciplines and topics such as culture, arts, human behavior, tech and science.

TypeCon2019

📍 Minneapolis, United States

Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA), an international organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of typography and related arts celebrates the 21th anniversary of TypeCon their annual conference, with exhibits, workshops, parties, and other extracurricular events are always part of the complete TypeCon package.

Front Conference Zurich

📍 Zurich, Switzerland

Frontend Conference Zurich. 3 days of inspiring workshops & talks where design meets technology.

Berlin Commercial

📍 Berlin, Germany

With the annual conference, expo, and networking events Berlin Commercial sets standards for business and creativity, and gives form to visions and careers highlighting the most inspiring work in Advertising, Music Video and Fashion Film. Berlin Commercial operates in the tension between film and lifestyle, creative culture and mainstream. Awards the best works in branded storytelling, brings together the most exciting minds and companies from the commercial filmmaking industry, is up for as many hands-on experiences as possible and has a pool in the middle

Information Design Summer School

📍 Bath, United KIngdom

The Information Design Summer School happens every year in Bath, UK. It's an intense introduction to information design. There are lectures, discussions, and group-working on projects – we focus on users, diagramming, text design, testing and process. It's an inspiring week that attracts both graphic designers wanting to focus on communicating complex information, and people from other professions wanting some of what we've got: we get medics, lawyers, technical writers and more. Organised by the Simplification Centre in partnership with the International Institute for Information Design.

ATypI 2019

📍 Tokyo, Japan

ATypI Tokyo will bring together typeface designers, publishers, developers, and educators from Japan and the global typographic community. Tokyo is the perfect environment for a global gathering: it is a crucible of hypermodernity and tradition, globalism and regionalism. ATypI is a global network that spans design professions, company sizes, and geographic areas of activity.

Techfestival 2019

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark

Techfestival. Where humans & technology meet. Techfestival is created to ask the burning questions and explore the real impact of technology. To make space for a much needed conversation on the possibilities and the friction that technology creates when applied to real life. Techfestival is done with innovation-hype, and long for new and human answers.

SmashingConf Freiburg 2019

📍 Freiburg, Germany

The 8th edition of SmashingConf Freiburg in their lovely hometown. With one track, two days, 13 speakers and 260 attendees, expect actionable insights for your work — right at the footsteps of the magical Black Forest.

Me Convention

📍 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

The third edition of me Convention. The festival-like conference taps into the Zeitgeist of the near future, and will examine how innovation, inspiration, and creativity can help guide the direction we are traveling in. Me Convention is a collaboration between Mercedes-Benz and SXSW and focus on: New Creation, New Leadership, New Realities, New Urbanism and New Velocity.

Gather

📍 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.

Dibi Conference

📍 Edinburgh, Scotland

DIBI : Design It; Build It is a international digital conferences for designers & developers for those shaping the future of the web. This editions the conference is celebrating risk taking, encourage participants to step out of their comfort zones and ask what we can learn when things do go wrong.

Design Matters 19

📍 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.

Encode: Data journeys in design, journalism and education

📍 London, United Kingdom

The inaugural edition of Encode a two-day conference in London, bringing the creative community together to share and explore the future of data-driven stories. With more than 30 practitioners, educators, and leaders in the field will engage, share and debate the way we read and interact with data.

Graphic Matters

📍 Breda, Netherlands

Graphic Matters presents self-initiated projects by international designers who care about how they affect the world. With exhibitions, tours, talks, workshops, and events that speak to the curious individual (not just the design professional), we show the impact of design.

Blend 2019

📍 Vancouver, Canada

Blend is a conference style party in Vancouver for the motion, design & animation family. ‍Blend is carefully curated and created with much love by a small group of people: Jorge, Teresa, Claudio & Sander. They wanted to create a festival for the community, by the community. ‍The heart of Blend and Wine after Coffee is to be a place, online and offline, where people from all around the world share awesome work, get inspired, learn, and collaborate. Because when you get together, amazing things happen.

OFFF TLV 2019

📍 Tel Aviv, Israel

The 3rd 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

Us By Night

📍 Antwerp, Belgium

Fourth edition of Us By Night a design & creativity festival turned into a unique night experience. With an inspiring lineup and an endless market, it's guaranteed to provide you 3 nights you don't want to miss. Soon more names will be announced.

Papanek Symposium 2019

📍 Porto, Portugal

The Papanek Symposium 2019 debates both the future, and the future of design: The places, ideas and means by which the politics of design, and the design of politics come together. Part of Porto Design Week.

Playgrounds The Art Department 2019

📍 Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Character design, concept art, background visuals, character building, robotics, props: every single detail a crew has to think of and decide upon before they can get start actually making the film. For two days Playgrounds The Art Department will dive in the magic of visual storytelling. The world’s leading and inspirational artists and designers meet up in the Dutch capitol of design Eindhoven. With international artists and designers in a program of artist talks, workshops, demo’s, presentations, portfolio reviews, an expo with original artwork, a Sketch Lounge, VR Area, Paint-over Area & good food and drinks.

Creative Works Conference

📍 Memphis, United States

The 6th annual Creative Works Conference. Three days designed to connect, inspire and empower a driven creative community.

OFFF Vienna

📍 Vienna, Austria

Second edition of OFFF Vienna.

Nordic.Design

📍 Stockholm, Sweden

Nordic.design is a single track conference all about UX, UI, design tools, workflows and more with talks by internationally renowned speakers and rising stars in the design community. Nordic.design is happening the day before Nordic.js, the perfect combo if you are into design and programming!

SmashingConf New York 2019

📍 New York, United States

The 6th SmashingConf New York, just around the corner of Times Square. A friendly, inclusive event that focuses on real-world problems and solutions. The conference focus on front-end and UX but we cover everything web, be it UI design or machine learning. With one track, two days, 13 speakers and 400 attendees, expect actionable insights for your work.

Brand New Conference 2019

📍 Las Vegas, United States

A two-day conference on corporate and brand identity with 16 sessions from today’s most active and influential practitioners around the world. Organized by UnderConsideration

POST Design Festival 2019

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark

The third installment of POST Design Festival. Its a design festival focusing on the working life of the visual communicator and the ethics of design. It deals with issues beyond the development of client contacts and stylistic approaches.

DesignThinkers Toronto 2019

📍 Toronto, Canada

DesignThinkers, Canada’s premier conference for visual communicators. This annual design conference provides insights into design thinking, design process and strategy, helping delegates strengthen their ability to deliver outstanding visual communications and cutting-edge design innovation. T

KIKK 2019

📍 Namur, Belgium

The 9th 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.

Adobe MAX 2019 - The Creativity Conference.

📍 Los Angeles, United States

The Adobe MAX is an annual event held by Adobe. Adobe MAX is an awe-inspiring experience unlike any other — your once-a-year opportunity to attend the premier event for designers, developers, and decision-makers. Connect with industry leaders, learn directly from the experts, preview new software, and hear success stories and best practices for creating rich experiences across multiple screens.

Integrated Conference

📍 Antwerp, Belgium

The seventh edition of the thought-provoking conference format organized by St Lucas School of Arts Antwerp. The biennial event offers a platform for the compelling dialogue between art, design and society, and digs deep in the polemics of this discourse. It is a forum where speakers, students and professionals can compare their work, design processes, sources of inspiration and methodologies.

Eastern Design Conference 2019

📍 Košice, Slovakia

Second edition of ​​Eastern Design Conference​. Design is a global language, yet the business that’s done here in the east stays local. Eastern Design Conference aims to explore this unordinary relationship.

Webconf.asia

📍 Hong Kong, Hong Kong

The third edition of Webconf.asia, a conference and workshop series featuring great talks with practical advice from international web experts. For this year's conference, we plan to run four workshops on the days before the conference on November 20–21, 2019.

Productized Conference

📍 Lisbon, Portugal

During 2 full days of workshops and talks in English, product-related professionals will be able to discuss their perspectives and share insights on how to build great products together with the leading minds in Product Thinking, Product Management, Product Design, and Product Experience. Productized Conference takes place in Lisbon, one of Europe's top tech hubs and a world-class tourism destination. With 500 attendees, it's considered to have the right size for a great networking experience. The lineup always includes big names of the product space.

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"

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

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.