Perennial Institute Summer Program

📍 Berlin, Germany

The Perennial Institute is an experimental education program created to explore the boundaries of design and art practice through the lens of plants. In our 2018 Berlin summer program, we have crafted an workshops and experience that will deepen connections with this important resource, in order to expand our creativity. We will bring together creatives, cooks, scientists, florists, foragers, and more in the pursuit of experiences, knowledge, experimental practices and new awareness. The program is aimed at artists, designers and those interested in plants. Each day participants will explore plants in new ways from sensory perception to ethnobotany, arrangement, scent, pigment production, Berlin community gardening, and more. It will culminate in individual experiments around the city of Berlin.

UX Week 2018

📍 San Francisco, United States

16th edition of the UX Week. UX Week is a mixture of engaging keynotes and informative workshops from leading professionals in the field of UX design. UX Week is for design professionals. from all over the world to get inspiration and building new skills.

Related interview with curator an host Jesse James Garret on creating a human-centered design conference

Design + Diversity Conference

📍 Saint Louis, Missouri , United States

3rd edition of the Design + Diversity conference explores proactive ways to make the design industry more diverse. As the only conference that focuses on diversity issues in the design field, the event provides a platform for constructive conversation among those who design, innovate, and lead.

c/o pop convention

📍 Cologne, Germany

Parallel to the c / o pop Festival, the c / o pop Convention will take place on the 30th and 31st of August 2018 at the IHK Cologne - with a broader range of topics than ever before and everything under one roof. Thursday is dedicated to the program areas Interactive and Brands & Music, on Friday the program areas Exchange & Connect and New talent are in focus.

The Conference 2018

📍 Malmö, Sweden

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

Related interview: We talked with Cecilia Frankel, of The Conference. On organizing and curating the festival, and why the world needs more fluffiness. Read the feature.

me Convention 2018

📍 Stockholm, Sweden

Join today’s makers and thought leaders for the three-day, cross-cultural me Convention and explore the future through the lens of technology, art, and design.

Explore the entrepreneurial spirit of vibrant Stockholm at the me Convention this September while immersing yourself in countless events and thrilling highlights at various hotspots. me Convention 2018 finds a home in the Scandinavian chic of Nacka Strandsmässan, where top speakers from all walks of life — curated in collaboration with SXSW® — will showcase the latest in technology, art, and design across our five themes. Discover fascinating developments in New Society, New Leadership, New Economies, New Creativity and New Bionomics.

Nordic.Design 2018

📍 Stockholm, Sweden

Second edition of this one day, single track design conference in Stockholm. With talks by internationally renowned speakers and rising stars in the design community. Organized by the people behind nordic.js

Reasons.to 2018

📍 Brighton, United KIngdom

Annual design & code event Reasons.to is the award winning international conference with a festival vibe. Each year international creatives and developers taking the stage to inform, inspire, entertain, thrill and educate attendees from all over the world.

Today’s digital creatives are multi-disciplined, they draw their inspiration to do great work from many different influences. Reasons to: is curated with that in mind, bringing content from many disciplines to give designers, coders, creatives, film makers, animators, installation builders, illustrators, artists and more the opportunity to see and hear new perspectives and the best content in the world.

Related interview: Neon Moiré Show with Dina Amin

XOXO 2018

📍 Portland, United States

XOXO is an experimental festival for independent artists and creators working online. XOXO started in 2012 and promotes the work of independent artists and makers, and has evolved into a world-class showcase of indie games, short-form video, art, and the open web.

CAMP 2018

📍 Calgary, Canada

5th edition of annual CAMP Festival. CAMP celebrates creative technology, art and design by bringing together like-minded professionals, artists, and students to share and shape experiences that educate, challenge and inspire.

SmashingConf Freiburg

📍 Freiburg, Germany

7th edition of SmashingConf Freiburg. Smashing Magazine home conference. SmashingConf Freiburg is a one track, two-days event, taking place in the Historic Merchants’ Hall, in the lovely old town of Freiburg, Germany.

Festa Del Grafisme

📍 Portbou, Spain

Since its launch in 2007, the Festa del Grafisme established itself as an annual meeting to learn and share, open to professionals, students and interested public to reflect on the communicative and social function of graphic design.

From a human, honest and calm perspective, out of the usual stress of the graphic design’s professional environment, every year the Festa surprises its public with unconventional contents and novel formats.

Since its beginnings, the Festa chooses Portbou as its location mainly for its border condition, being the event itself on the margins between art and communication, between culture and business, between inspiration and reflection, between the city and nature.

ATypI 2018

📍 Antwerp, Belgium

ATypI 2018 will be held in Antwerp, Belgium, from the 11th until the 15th September 2018. The local organizing team consists of Ann Bessemans, Jo De Baerdemaker, Joke Gossé, Yves Peters and Frederik Berlaen.

The ATypI is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to typography and type design.

this.nordic

📍 Aarhus, Denmark

Annual event this.nordic has two coexisting arenas: A full-scale business conference focusing on creative tech, future business innovation. And an outdoor festival space exploring music, art, and installations with support from world-renowned Roskilde Festival.

Their ambition is to build a strong bridge between creatives and thought leaders and create a true exchange between innovative projects and global businesses across borders.

Brand New Conference 2018

📍 New York, 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

Motion Plus Design Paris 2018

📍 Paris, France

Third edition of Motion Plus Design. Presenting the cream of the crop of the best worldwide Motion Designers for a one full day of talks at Le Theatre Du Gymnase.

NEXT18

📍 Hamburg, Germany

NEXT is a 2-day event for those who actively participate in shaping the digital transformation. The NEXT Conference is during the Reeperbahn Festival, which is 19 until 22 September 2018.

TodaysArt 2018

📍 The Hague, The Netherlands

The 14th edition of TodaysArt, The Dutch international festival of art, electronic music and digital creativity runs September 21 to 23 in various venues in the city centre of The Hague.

Featuring more than 100 artists working at the intersection of art, music and technology, the festival showcases live performance, mind blowing audiovisual works, installations, talks and an extensive club program of 72 hrs non stop.

Design Matters 2018

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark

Design Matters is a conference on new movements in Digital Design. It brings together design practitioners from the best and most happening companies around the world for two days of design talks, workshops, discussions and socializing in Copenhagen.

AGI Open Mexico

📍 Mexico City, Mexico

AGI Open is an annual conference for students and professionals that coincides with the annual AGI members’ congress. AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) brings together the prominent graphic designers of the world.

Weltformat 18

📍 Lucerne, Switserland

10th edition of the international poster festival.

Web Unleashed 2018

📍 Toronto, Canada

Web Unleashed, the front-end developer event, helps front-end professionals learn the skills they need to push them ahead in their careers. Enjoy two full days and over 50 presentations from industry experts, plus endless opportunities to network and connect with like-minded developers, creative coders, evangelists, designers, technologists, managers, makers, engineers, educators, directors, strategists, enthusiasts and more! #WebU18

Playgrounds The Art Department 2018

📍 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. 40+ 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.

Let's Talk Design #19

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands

Let's Talk Design is a series of evenings with speakers from the creative sector talking about their work. At our events we let established creatives talk about their work next to young & upcoming talent. Let's Talk Design is a great event to meet other creatives and get inspired in an informal setting.

OFFF Vienna

📍 Vienna, Austria

First edition of OFFF Vienna. A new #OFFFonTour city. 2-days of OFFF Barcelona in Vienna. OFFF is a community inviting all those whom are eager to learn to participate and get inspired in a journey of conferences, workshops, activities and performances. #OFFFonTour

REDO Design Conference

📍 Prestina, Kosovo

Redo is an annual three-day event in Pristina. This is the sixth edition, and brings together designers from around the world to create a discourse around the current issues within the practice of graphic design.

We talked with REDO's program director Bardhi Haliti. We talk about organizing, graphic design, education and Pristina. Read the interview.

ADNIGHT

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands

50 creative agencies open their doors for one night only. All organizing their own program of talks, tours, and activities. With a line up of 50 agencies ranging from creative and design to film and music production and anything in between there is more than enough to discover! Participating agencies include 72andSunny, TBWA, Isobar, VICE, and many more!

Confront

📍 Malmö, Sweden

CONFRONT is a day about dev and design. It is an interactive day with keynotes, talks and workshops, focusing on the dialogue between developers and designers.

Torino Graphic Days Vol.03

📍 Turin, Italy

Torino Graphic Days is the festival that celebrates creativity, visual design and graphic experimentation.

The festival's third editions will guide you through the discovery of a new program of events, exhibitions, workshops, talks, performances and more. The festival will deal with all the aspects of graphic design: from handcrafted techniques, like engraving, to the artistic field’s ones, like illustration and sign painting and to contemporary sectors like branding and animation. This year edition will host many exhibitions and performances and, during the week-end, the market fair dedicated to all the different artisanal and innovative entities coming from the visual communication field. There is a brand new festival area dedicated to publishing houses and independent magazines.

OFFF TLV 2018

📍 Tel Aviv, Israel

Second edition of OFFF TLV. Two days of OFFF creativity in Tel Aviv, Israel. OFFF is a place to connect en get inspired through interdisciplinary design and creativity.

What’s coming? 2 lecture halls, the market yard, interactive booths, Funzone, creative people and lots of global inspiration

Cinekid

📍 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Cinekid Festival will take place on 15 - 21 October 2018 and the Cinekid for Professionals Conference and the presentation of the Cinekid Media Awards, followed by MediaLab Night on Wednesday 24 October 2018.

push conference 2018

📍 Munich, Germany

push conference, a two-day event in the heart of Munich, unites creative coding and user experience design, by offering a platform for designers, developers, and UX professionals.

Call for Speakers until July 13:
http://push-conference.com/2018/program/speakers-call

Call for Exhibition:
http://push-conference.com/2018/program/exhibition-call

Graphic Design Festival Scotland

📍 Glasgow, Scotland

Celebrating their 5th-anniversary Graphic Design Festival Scotland host 28 design events across 7 days. Including 2 exhibitions over October and November, 2 brand new events, with speakers and workshop leaders from across the world.

Information+ conference 2018

📍 Berlin, Germany

Information+ 2018 is a three event: a one-day hands-on workshop [19 Oct], a two-day conference [20–21 Oct], and an exhibition of historic information design [19 Oct – 14 Dec].

The biennial conference brings together researchers and practitioners in information design and visualization to discuss common questions and challenges in these rapidly changing fields. Unlike discipline-specific gatherings, Information+ seeks to foster productive exchanges amongst the variety of people involved in the theories, practices, and pedagogies of analyzing and communicating information.

IEEE VIS 2018

📍 Berlin, Germany

For the second time IEEE VIS comes to Europe. IEEE VIS is the largest conference on Scientific Visualization, Information Visualization, and Visual Analytics. It is the premier forum for advances in visualization in academia, science, government, industry, and beyond. The conference will include programs for students, academics, artists, industry and commercial practitioners, government researchers, and anyone with interests in visualization and data analytics. IEEE VIS is a week of research presentations, tutorials, workshops, panels, demonstrations, posters, and exhibitions.

​SmashingConf New York

📍 New York, United States

SmashingConf is coming to New York again! Two exciting days at the beautiful New World Stages. The hunt for shiny front-end and UX treasures has begun! From Design and User-Centric Thinking to Vue.js and Web Performance.

SmashingConf is a one track, two conference days, 13 brilliant speakers and just 400 available seats. Make your experience even more memorable by attending one of their workshops.

Get 100USD discount on your conference ticket with the code SmashinglovesNeonMoire.

Ideas in Motion

📍 Toronto, Canada

Ideas in Motion is an exploration of the concepts and design behind worldbuilding within broadcast and film. From 30 second commercial spots to feature film projects, designers and directors who’ve excelled in the art of conveying the story of new worlds through sight and sound will examine, and dissect the creative and technical approaches behind industry leading studios and agencies.

DesignThinkers Toronto 2018

📍 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. The conference will take place on October 24-25 at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts.

Bend Design 2018

📍 Bend, United States

Bend Design 2018 will feature two days of engaging conversations, tours, interactive workshops and hands-on exhibits intended to celebrate design as a way of thinking, regardless of category or discipline. Whether you are a visual artist, trade professional, entrepreneur, city official, student, or simply a curious and passionate citizen, Bend Design invites you to join them October 25 & 26 for an active and engaging celebration of design thinking and design doing.

Related: Neon Moiré Show with Chris Do

Eastern Design Conference

📍 Košice, Slovakia

First edition of Eastern Design Conference. Design is global yet business stays local. At Eastern Design Conference, we explore this relationship.

Productized Lisbon 2018

📍 Lisbon, Portugal

Productized Conference 2018 is our fourth conference in Lisbon gathering thought-leaders on Product Thinking, Product Management, and User Experience. Productized has been designed with digital products in mind but is also relevant to other product categories such as hardware and wearables, or technical products.

KIKK Festival 2018

📍 Namur, Belgium

The 8th 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.

beyond tellerrand Berlin

📍 Berlin, Germany

Beyond tellerrand is an event for the design and development community. Taking place in Düsseldorf and Berlin.

We recently interviewed Marc Thiele, founder and organiser of beyond tellerrand about how he finds the right mix of speakers, side events, swag and partnerships. Read the feature

Design It; Build It

📍 Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Design It; Build It is a one-day conference in Edinburgh for UX designers and web developers, featuring eight presentations from those shaping the future of the web. This year Design It; Build It looks at the theme of ‘Freedom’ – How much freedom do we need to create amazing digital experiences? Is their a conflict between producing work for clients or customers and feeling empowered to express yourself? Can great work come from having limitations put on you? How can we make sure that the services and products that we create don’t threaten the freedom of those who we produce them for?

Us By Night

📍 Antwerp, Belgium

Third 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. #USBYNIGHT2018

Related articles:

• Interview with Rizon Parein, curator of Us by Night.
• Our review of the first edition called OFFF by Night in November 2016.
• Related interview: Dot Lung, co-founder of 360VR.Barcelona

CTM Festival 2019

📍 Berlin, Germany

CTM festival's 20th edition will take place at various Berlin venues. Founded in 1999, CTM is a prominent international festival dedicated to contemporary electronic, digital and experimental music, as well as the diverse range of artistic activities in the context of sound and club cultures. The festival's aim is to present the most outstanding international productions in adventurous, experimental and electronic music and audiovisual performance, as well as to reflect on recent artistic, social and technical developments in music culture.

FITC Amsterdam 2019

📍 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Now in its 12th year, FITC returns to Amsterdam to host their groundbreaking design and tech event on the future of innovation, design and all the cool shit in between.

Elevate Festival 2019

📍 Graz, Austria

Elevate is an annual interdisciplinary festival held in various central venues around the Schlossberg in Graz, Austria. With its unique combination of critical political discourse and contemporary music and art, the Elevate Festival stands out of the "usual" festival circus. Amongst the guests are Human rights experts, climate researchers and activists from all over the world, who gather in Graz once a year with musicans and artists, illuminating pertinent issues of our future. The organisational body is a not-for-profit association. Therefore all the discourse and film programme of the festival is free of charge.

IAM Weekend 2019

📍 Barcelona, Spain

IAM Weekend is the best weekend of the year for internet people! Fourth IAM Weekend offers the future of internet culture, within the theme: "The Quantumness of Archipelagos".

#IAMW19

99U Conference 2019

📍 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.

Related interview: Neon Moiré Show with 99U Editor-in-Chief Matt McCue

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.