Design Indaba Festival 2019

📍 Cape Town, South Africa

Every year the Design Indaba Festival curates a pioneering programme of speakers, music artists, film and design exhibitions, showcasing the best of the global and African creative industries.

Type Drives Culture Conference

📍 New York, United States

The 2019 Type Drives Culture Conference organized by the Type Directors Club will be held at the SVA Theatre. With the interactive theme — Type: More ______ Than Ever — prompts presenters and conference attendees to fill in the blank about the present and future of type.

LADFEST

📍 Lima, Peru

Fifth edition of Latin American Design Festival LADFEST. The most important gathering in Lima with the most recognized designers from Latin America and the world.

SXSW Conference & Festivals

📍 Austin, United States

South by Southwest is an annual film, interactive media, and music festival and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. The event, an essential destination for global professionals, features sessions, showcases, screenings, exhibitions, and a variety of networking opportunities. SXSW proves that the most unexpected discoveries happen when diverse topics and people come together. Since it began in 1987, SXSW has continued to grow in both scope and size every year.

Antwerp Poster Festival

📍 Antwerp, Belgium

The Inaugural edition of Antwerp Poster Festival is an event aimed at promoting graphic design and creative thinking in Antwerp. With its international appeal, Antwerp Poster Festival strives to showcase a broad spectrum of styles and visions in the field of graphic design.

Toca Me 19

📍 Munich, Germany

Annual one day single track design conference TOCA ME. Since 2003 the goal of the conference us to entertain and inspire the design community. Inspire by high quality presentations and by the venue and its atmosphere.
TOCA ME design conference will be one of the main events of the Munich Creative Business Week taking place from March 9 - 17 2019.

EDCH - The Ideas Salon

📍 Munich, Germany

A three-day festival for Editorial Designers, Art Directors, Juniors and Students, for Journalists, Publishers and Storyteller, for Photographers, Infographics designers, Illustrators and everyone enthralled by outstanding creativity. In keeping with our heading look behind and beyond portfolios more than 60 international creative celebrities offer deep insight into their work: magazine or newspaper, blog or post, magalog, eMag or newsletter, independent or classical, public or special, corporate or niche. EDCH - The Ideas Salon provides 350 participants with knowledge and inspiration for their daily work and new projects, creating a unique setting for you to network and exchange views and experiences, for presentations, workshops and exhibitions, performances and parties.

UX Copenhagen

📍 Copenhagen , Denmark

The Fifth 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 super 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 how to design with transparency, consent, privacy, ethics, and diversity in mind, both in regards to systems, websites, apps, and physical products, and also in regards to the teams we work in.

Culture Geek

📍 London, United Kingdom

Culture Geek is a one day conference on the digital side of culture. Hear how museums, theatres and arts organisations are using digital and meet those shaping the use of design and technology within organisations like Tate, Southbank Centre, Rijksmuseum, V&A, Royal Institution and Historic Royal Palaces.

IAM Weekend 2019

📍 Barcelona, Spain

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

Epicurrence

📍 Breckenridge, United States

2 days. Skiing. Snowboarding. Workshops. Talks.

STRP festival 2019

📍 Eindhoven, The Netherlands

STRP Biënnale is a ten-day festival, filled with spectacular art, technology and experimental electronic music. The festival is about sharing the passion for technology, with tours, workshops and an international conference where artists and technologists offer a glimpse behind the scenes.

Forward Festival Vienna 2019

📍 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.

AIGA Design Conference 2019

📍 Pasadena, 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.

Playgrounds Blend Breda

📍 Breda, The Netherlands

A 2 day conference about concept art and design for films, animation and games. Playgrounds Blend, showcasing a catwalk of inspiring, progressive and innovative makers who are known for stretching outside of a genre and mashing more things up.

OFFSET Dublin

📍 Dublin, Ireland

10th edition of OFFSET. 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.

Krupa. Interface Design Conference

📍 Kyiv , Ukraine

KRUPA is the biggest interface design conference in Eastern Europe. KRUPA is a gathering global design stars, UX leaders, aspiring designers and UX teams, developing networking opportunities and raising design industry in Ukraine to a new level. With speakers from Ukraine, USA, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, and Israel.

Playgrounds Blend Amsterdam

📍 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

A single day conference about concept art and design for films, animation and games. Playgrounds Blend, showcasing a catwalk of inspiring, progressive and innovative makers who are known for stretching outside of a genre and mashing more things up.

-ing creative festival 2019

📍 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

-ing creative festival is about generating creativity and inspiration, gathering talents from all over the world to re-enforce the creative community. It is about inspiring, networking and generating. (and having fun in the process). -ing is a creative community based in Dubai. They unlock your creative potential through talks, workshops, and networking sessions.

SmashingConf San Francisco 2019

📍 San Francisco, United States

5th edition of SmashingConf in San Francisco. SmashingConf San Francisco, we’ll explore how to improve accessibility and front-end workflow, refactoring, security, interface design patterns, CSS Grid techniques, performance, and how to write better JavaScript. Plus a bunch of hands-on workshops on design, front-end and UX.

Leeds Digital Festival

📍 Leeds, United Kingdom

The Leeds Digital Festival is a city-wide, open platform celebration of all things digital within Leeds.

Resonate 2019

📍 Belgrade, Serbia

The Belgrade New Media Festival celebrates its 8th anniversary in 2019. The festival brings together artists to drive a forward-looking debate on the position of technology in art and culture. Each year the festival lasts for six days and provides an overview of current situation in the fields of music, visual arts and digital culture. Guest artists, lecturers, and other participants are chosen to represent the cutting edge of the contemporary creative industry in the world.

FITC Toronto 2019

📍 Toronto, Canada

Immerse yourself in a land of #PureImagination at the 18th year of #FITCToronto It’s the Future of Innovation, Technology and Creativity. FITC Toronto is a globally recognized industry event showcasing the best the world has to offer in design, digital development, media and innovation in creative technologies – its three days and nights of presentations, parties, installations and performances that unite and transform the industry.

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.This will be the 11th edition.

Related interview:

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

Pictoplasma Conference & Festival Berlin

📍 Berlin, Germany

Annual Pictoplasma Festival turns for the 15th time Berlin into the world’s epicenter of character design and art—and a vibrant meeting point for a diverse scene of international artists, illustrators, filmmakers, and game, graphic or product designers. Creators and producers meet for a central conference to exchange strategies for figurative aesthetics, while the wider festival invites the general public to discover new trends. Cutting edge screenings bring the latest animation to the big cinema screen, numerous exhibitions throughout the city present original works and outstanding character craftsmanship, and performances put the characters into direct play with the audience.

beyond tellerrand // Dusseldorf 2019

📍 Düsseldorf, Germany

beyond tellerrand is a web- and design festival. With a workshops and talks for creative minds on: design, technology, inspiration plus room for networking.

Berlin Letters Festival

📍 Berlin, Germany

Berlin Letters! A festival for professionals and amateurs of lettering, sign painting, calligraphy and type design. Three days of inspiration, fun and skillshare with international speakers, awesome workshops and general jamboree.

Semi Permanent Sydney 2019

📍 Sydney, Australia

Three day conference Semi Permanent brings together internationally renowned designers, artists & creative icons for live events, presentations, workshops & parties. In 2019 Semi Permanent 2019 explores the 'TRUTH'.

Related interview: Murray Bell, founder and director Semi Permanent

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

OffGrid

📍 Osea Island, United Kingdom

OffGrid 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 focus on real-world problems and solutions. Our focus is 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

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.

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.