NEW NOW Festival

Essen, Germany

NEW NOW is the new festival for Digital Arts in Europe. From August 27 to October 03, 2021, the UNESCO World Heritage Zollverein will become the temporary centre of a new production culture. The landmark of the Ruhr region will transform into a "living sculpture" for Digital Arts: Pioneering contemporary artists will address critical issues of our time and develop new works on site. In a spectacular industrial setting, participants experience art in the making.

Graphic Days® 2021 – Touch

Torino, Italy

Touch is the fil rouge of the sixth edition of the international festival dedicated to visual design, an invitation to return to physicality and sensoriality, an invitation to stay in contact.

Global Design Forum

London, UK

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.

Index Award 2021

10 days of discussing, dissecting and deep-diving into Design to Improve Life

International Design Conference 2021

IDC 2021 (Sept. 22-23) is a 24-hour virtual event for designers across disciplines and around the world! The event will be recorded and all 60+ sessions will be sent post-event to ticket holders.

Typewriters around the world: machines, practices, cultures with Raja Adal

A series of presentations on typewriters, typewriting, and related communities of practice. Each presentation in the series offers a glimpse of ongoing critical engagement with everyday technologies for different writing systems around the world.

UX Y'all

UX Y’all is a virtual user experience conference with Southern hospitality. We will celebrate the North Carolina Triangle area, with its diverse and growing design and technical scene.

Next Conference

The NEXT21 Limited Edition festival will be celebrated via livestream from Hamburg’s Schmidts Tivoli theatre on the world-famous Reeperbahn – with keynotes, discussions and music. NEXT takes a look into the future – how will new technologies, markets and people’s behaviour evolve in the post-pandemic era?

Design Matters

Design Matters is a global community of digital creatives who love to explore and inspire each other to break new ground in digital design.

LaterCon

LaterCon brings together 25+ industry experts including top brands and creators to talk about real marketing strategies and trends. We’ll cover everything from digital strategy to content creation, e-commerce, social selling, industry predictions, and so much more..

Meets for Speed

Smashing Magazine community event — Meets for Speed. This time all about Web Performance. Join for excellent talks and a panel discussion on the Why and How of web performance.Tickets are free, so claim yours now. Pretty Smashing, right?

Interact Global

Interact Global is the free, virtual offering of Nomensa's conference, Interact

Blend 2021 (on-site)

Breda, The Netherlands

Playgrounds Blend is a catwalk of inspiring, progressive and innovative makers. Artists are known for stretching outside of a genre and mashing things uptake over the stage. Blend Playgrounds aims to signal new trends and developments in the industry and to connect visual art with other genres.

Forward Festival Vienna

Vienna, Austria

Hybrid Forward Festival 2021 is all about the transformation of society through digitization in the creative scene. It raises questions about the virtualization of our lives and our work, especially during the “new normal”. Forward Festival wants to be an eye opener to the striking aspects of digitization – applied to design, creativity and communication.

World Usability Congress

Graz, Austria

This year, for the 9th time, the World Usability Congress will be held in Graz, Austria from October 13th - 14th. It hosts international prime talks from UX & CX professionals, working at companies such as Facebook, PwC, Zalando, SAP, Amazon, IBM & Shell. Besides deep insights, the conference gives the opportunity to step out of daily business life and serve as a hub to connect with like-minded people. The conference experience will be complemented with all-included catering and a Networking Dinner with a stunning view over the city of Graz.

Semi Permanent Middle East 2021

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

This October, the biggest creativity and design festival in the southern hemisphere comes to the Middle East for the first time.

TypeCon2021: Together

TypeCon is and annual typography-focused convention.

Adobe Max 2021

Adobe MAX - The Creativity Conference is an annual event with the purpose to promote the latest Adobe releases to those in the computer design and development industries.

Clarity: a design systems conference

Clarity is a design systems conference focused on how we work together. The two-day, single-track event provides tools and standards to scale across an increasing number of devices, platforms, and products. But real success comes when people align around a shared vision and language. Diverse perspectives for design, development, and product unite so more people can be a part of the conversation. At Clarity, you elevate your skills through multi-faceted inclusion, empathy, technology, creativity, and collaboration.

Own Your UX Career: 1 Day Virtual Conference

A 1-day virtual conference for UX professionals to help you find your path, level up, and get paid what you're worth. If you're feeling stuck or wondering what the next move in your UX career should be, then this event is for you!

KIKK Festival 2021

Namur, Belgium

The 10th edition of KIKK, an international festival of digital & creative cultures that explores the crossovers between art, science and technology. The program includes conferences, workshops, an art exhibition, outdoor art installations, a market with makers, startups and DIY projects, a pro area as well as electronic music parties.

beyond tellerrand // DÜSSELDORF 2021

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.

IAM Weekend 21

Barcelona, Spain

The 7th edition of IAM Weekend, the annual gathering for designers, technologists, researchers, artists and other creative professionals rethinking the internet(s). Theme for 2021 is 'The Interbeingness of Citizenships'

No-Code Conf 2021

Come together with the makers, creators, and visionaries behind the no-code movement. No-Code Conf 2021 will take place in-person at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, alongside an engaging (and free!) online experience.

OFFF DACH

OFFF DACH Visual Design Festival inspires creative minds every year.

CSS Day 2020 + dsgnday

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

CSS Day (9th of June) will feature sessions by seven world-class speakers about curious, badly-known, or otherwise interesting CSS features. dsgnday (10th 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.