Neon Moiré is a curated design conference calendar 📅 , a podcast 🎧 and a weekly newsletter 📬 called Neon Monday. To help you find inspiration and connect with other creatives around the world. 🌍🌎🌏 Looking for a Design Summer Schools? We got you covered! 🏕
📍 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.
📍 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.
📍 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.
📍 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
📍 Rotterdam, Netherlands
AGI OPEN 2019 is in progress! Nothing is finished. Everything is changing. AGI OPEN 2019 embraces the unpolished, the unfinished, the insecure, the quest... We are not a conference. We are a festival! One full day of meeting friends and colleagues during inspiring talks and workshops hosted in ten venues around a quaint square in Rotterdam. No one knows where the future brings us, in the meanwhile WE CREATE! Let’s celebrate the unknown.
📍 New York, USA
A Digital Thinkers conference by Awwwards in New York. A design conference about creating new experiences to sell more and to discover trends, new technologies, network and unveil the secrets of the Internet
📍 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.
📍 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.
📍 Islamabad, Pakistan
Pakistani ND2C is the place where design practitioners, design educators, and business leaders connect over awe-inspiring talks, meaningful conversations, stimulating workshops, and a burst of creative energy. ND2C brings together inspiration from around the world, shines the spotlight on the best local talent and sow the seeds for well-designed products, services, and experiences.
📍 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.
📍 Memphis, United States
The 6th annual Creative Works Conference. Three days designed to connect, inspire and empower a driven creative community.
📍 Barcelona, Spain
11th edition of Blanc Festival. Blanc Festival is three days with talks, masterclasses and activities around design and professional creativity, with the focus on emerging talent and recognition of the great masters and pioneers of design in Spain. And if there is something that characterizes Blanc, it is the closeness, the familiar and comradeship environment, and the playful/festive atmosphere that is breathed during the three days of celebration of the event.
📍 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
On Thursday 3 October, the Allard Pierson will host the TypeAmsterdam conference, the ninth edition of the afternoon on current letter cases. This conference is organized in collaboration with the TypeMedia master course of the Royal Academy of Visual Arts (KABK) in The Hague.
📍 New York, United States
The fifth annual Core77 conference, where questions are asked like: What future do you want to see? How will you prepare for the next wave to hit the world of design? What practices need to be lifted up, and which ones should be left in the dust? Moving beyond our current commercial and financial understanding of 'innovation' will require transformative ideas and approaching challenges with an experimental mind frame, compelling insights and a focus on the human element.
📍 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The biggest open night for the creative industry in Amsterdam. 50 agencies open their doors for one night only organizing over 200 talks, workshops and activities. Over 50 creative agencies in Amsterdam open their doors and curate their own program during ADNIGHT. From agency tours, work expositions to live demos, talks, and seminars.
📍 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!
📍 Berlin, Germany
Renowned Dutch platform for visual arts Playgrounds sets up a new festival in Berlin: Playgrounds The Art Department. On 10 & 11 October the Berlin creative community is invited to a 2-day immersion of visual storytelling. Join Playgrounds for a fest and conference on design and concept art for film, animation, and games. Partners in Berlin are Drink and Draw Berlin and Firestarter Community Magazine.
📍 Hilversum, Netherlands
Annual conference for lovers of information design in The Netherlands. This years edition is themed around "Info-Empathics, engaging crowds by information design."
📍 Prishtina, Kosovo
The ninth edition of REDO! The annual International graphic design and visual arts event in Prishtina, Kosovo. REDO is a three-day event in motion that brings together designers from around the world to create a discourse around the current issues within the practice of graphic design. Through a series of talks, music events, books, and tours of the city, REDO provides an opportunity for designers to get together in and around the city of Prishtina.
📍 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.
📍 Las Vegas, United States
The Brand New Conference is a two-day event organized by UnderConsideration, focusing on the practice of corporate and brand identity — a direct extension of the popular blog, Brand New. The conference consists of eight sessions each day offering a broad range of points of view with speakers from around the world practicing in different environments, from global consultancies, to in-house groups, to small firms. This will be the conference's tenth year.
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
POST is an openly critical and collaborative design festival that challenges the place of graphic design, digital design and illustration practice in society during a series of talks and workshops in October 2019.
📍 Bend, United States
Sparking new conversations and collaborations, Bend Design 2019 explores how creative thinking can shape our shared future. The lineup features talks, interactive workshops, discussions, performances, hands-on exhibits, films, and more in beautiful Bend, Oregon.
📍 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
📍 Munich, Germany
PUSH UX is a lovingly crafted platform for hands-on professionals to celebrate the craft, impact and strategies of great design, all the way from people to post-its to pixels.
📍 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.
📍 Madrid, Spain
Brief Festival is an annual meeting of professionals and fans of graphic creation. Every October Brief organizes multiple activities on topics related to graphic design, illustration, typography, animation or photography, among other disciplines.
📍 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.
📍 Belfast, United Kingdom
Belfast Design Week is an annual design festival in Belfast, Northern Ireland created and curated by designers and design enthusiasts. This years theme is 'Power'.
📍 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.
📍 Košice, Slovakia
Eastern Design Conference focuses on design and its context—on people and places, their connections, origin stories, and history. With this in mind, Eastern Design Conference wants to showcase great ideas, unique solutions and inspiring stories to reveal how powerful and influential is the local context in design.
📍 San Francisco, United States
First edition of Webflow's No Code Conf. The conference celebrating the future of visual development — and the makers behind the movement.
📍 Berlin, Germany
beyond tellerrand is back in Berlin for year 6. Once more brings creative and curious minds together, interested in design, web and technology.
📍 London, UK
Design Systems London is a non-profit community conference to share experiences, ideas and approaches on Design Systems
📍 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.
📍 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.
📍 Singapore, Singapore
Global Brand Summit is an annual event hosted in Asia and Europe. The inaugural event in Singapore brings together creative and entrepreneurial minds based in Asia who pushes the boundaries in branding. The 3-day event (8 talks, 4 workshops & 2 film screenings) seeks to inspire and educate designers, marketers and business owners who wish to build exceptional customer experiences and loyalty. Join a gathering of doers and makers who design, build and grow exceptional customer experiences in Singapore.
📍 Glasgow, Scotland
6th edition of Graphic Design Festival Scotland, an international organisation promoting creativity, innovation, collaboration and challenging ways of thinking through a programme of workshops, talks, panel discussions, exhibitions, competitions, music, and urban murals.
📍 Vienna, Austria
A small, community-driven conference in the heart of Vienna for designers, developers and makers of the web.
📍 Nottingham, United Kingdom
New Adventures 2020 will form a clear narrative addressing significant issues facing humanity: the climate crisis and what design-minded practitioners can do about it; privilege and modern ethics; speculative design, and the ways designers can encourage conversations to serve people better, and avoid ethical catastrophes in the future. Kickstarting a new decade, this fifth adventure will explore speculative, strategic and critical design, radical inclusivity, climate and sustainability, and the perennial question of what happens next.
📍 Prague, Czech Republic
Festival presenting motion design in all of its forms. Ubiquitous and creative dynamic filed combining graphic design, animation, video, special effects and new technologies.
📍 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"
📍 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.
📍 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"
📍 San Francisco, USA
The Smashing Conference is a four-day event for professional web designers and web developers.
📍 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.
📍 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!
📍 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.
📍 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 September 8th and 9th 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 February 3rd, 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.
