Episode 30!
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.
Typoclass Bozhentsi 2019
📍 Bozhentsi, Bulgaria
Type design camp in Bulgarian mountains for beginners and for experienced professionals. 2 remarkable mentors, 2 workshops for beginners and advanced, 2 weeks of fun and hard work and 2 free places for students!
🙋♀️ 🙋♂️ Speakers
- Veronika Burian
- Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer
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Trojan Horse Open Air Residency 2019: Cultivating Research Practices
📍 Hanko, , Finland
This year the Trojan Horse Summer School is an Open Air Residency, a spatiotemporal medium offering nutrients for developing our practices and critical research questions together. During these days we will concentrate on writing, reading and discussing. The application will be open between 26.4.–19.5.2019. Ten participants will be selected anonymously based on the content of their applications and five by luck, using a random algorithm.
🙋♀️ 🙋♂️ Speakers
- Simone Niquille
- Leanne Wijnsma
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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.
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D2 Conferences
📍 Vienna, Austria
Annual conference D2 in Vienna hosts one of the largest gatherings of architectural visualization artists in the world. Attendees from visualization studios, architecture offices, advertising agencies, and software companies come together to share knowledge and meet new faces in the industry.
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- Ash Thorp
- Cornelius Dämmrich
- Patrick Vogel
- Tanja Nikolic-Vogel
- Lucia Frascerra
- Christiana Tudor
- Nicoleta Ivascu
- Saeed Amiri
- Christopher Worsfold
- Andrei Dolnikov
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Shape of Data - Code and design workshops
📍 London, United Kingdom
Shape of Data is a series of workshops organised by information designer Tiziana Alocci. Its goal is to enable participants to discover the multi-disciplinary world of data visualization, uncovering each aspect of the discipline through a series of practical activities and lectures. The workshops explore a wide variety of topics, including creative coding, visual storytelling, machine learning, generative art, and many more.
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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.
🙋♀️ 🙋♂️ Speakers
- Patrick Thomas
- Domestic Data Streamers
- Luis Eslava
- Marc Morro
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.
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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.
🙋♀️ 🙋♂️ Speakers
- Rob Waller
- Karel van der Waarde
- Clive Richards
- Jenny Waller
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
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
Join thinkers, doers, startups and movement to find answers to the key conversations in tech. Techfestival is back, September 5-7 in Copenhagen to drive a new wave in technology. Leave your roll-ups at home. Get together with 20,000+ thinkers, doers, startups, organisations and movements in exploring the key questions of our time on humans & technology. Join in on 200+ events, deep-dives, conversations, talks and workshops, from early morning to late evening in the middle of the city. Be part of the conversation.
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Community Leadership Summit #3 - The Power of Movements
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
Community leaders from across industries meet to explore the economics, technology and culture that drive communities in today's hyperspeed world
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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.
🙋♀️ 🙋♂️ Speakers
- Sara Soueidan
- Val Head
- Guillaume Kurkdjian
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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.
OFFF Kyiv 2019
📍 Kyiv, Ukraine
The First edition of OFFF Kyiv. More than a decade ago, OFFF was born as a festival. Today, OFFF is a way of understanding art, a way of life.
🙋♀️ 🙋♂️ Speakers
- Joshua Davis
- Will MacNeil
- Zack McDonald
- Oscar Erlandsson
- Ricardo Gonzalez
- Paloma Rincon
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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.
🙋♀️ 🙋♂️ Speakers
- Bradee Evans
- Thomas Schrijer
- Timo Dries
- Jane Ruffino
- Beth Chasse
- Kjegwan Leihitu
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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.
🙋♀️ 🙋♂️ Speakers
- Wesley Grubbs
- Marie Sagger
- Matteo Moretti
- Caroline Goulard
- Ludovic Riffault
- Quayola
- Caitlyn Ralph
- David Sheldon-Hicks
- Andy Kirk
- Thomas Clever
- Gert Franke
- Gemma Hitchens
- Shadi El Hajj
- Yarina Serkez
- Stefanie Posavec
- Miriam Quick
- Marcus Wendt
- Vera-Maria Glahn
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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.
🙋♀️ 🙋♂️ Speakers
- Jay Grandin (Host)
- Nick Forshee
- Ian Sigmon
- Xoana Herrera
- Simon & Oscar
- Marie-Margaux
- Tsakiri-Scanatovits
- Nicolas Ménard
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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
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AGI Open Rotterdam
📍 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.
🙋♀️ 🙋♂️ Speakers
- Huda AbiFarès
- Erik Adigard
- Cordula Alessandri
- Peter Bankov
- Peter Bilak
- Erik Brandt
- Sigrid Calon
- Eva Dijkstra
- Fan Ding
- Liza Enebeis
- Jianping Fang
- Mark Gowing
- April Greiman
- Joost Grootens
- Stefan Guzy
- Hansje van Halem
- Karin van der Heiden
- Anna Lena von Helldorff
- Alex Jordan
- Na Kim
- Matthias Kreutzer
- Henrik Kubel
- Harmen Liemburg
- Luna Maurer
- Bruno Maag
- Paul Mijksenaar
- Fidel Peugeot
- Brian Rea
- Lex Reitsma
- Pooroni Rhee
- Tereza Ruller
- Paula Scher
- Jens Schildt
- Niels Schrader
- David Smith
- Ariane Spanier
- Jon Sueda
- Joost Swarte
- Lucille Tenazas
- Patrick Thomas
- Alice Twemlow
- Martin Venezky
- Henning Wagenbreth
- Min Wang
- Markus Weisbeck
- Björn Wiede
- Jan Wilker
- Marina Willer
- Pepijn Zurburg
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Awwwards Conference NYC 2019 - Designing new experiences
📍 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
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- Chris Do
- Molly Nix
- Maggie Brennan
- Kaitlyn Greer
- Vitaly Friedman
- Lyanne Dubon
- Munawar Ahmed
- Jordan Cuddy
- Pablo Stanley
- Sophie Tahran
- Manuel Lima
- Sabrina Hall
- Scott Belsky
- Daan Klaver
- Jennifer Vano
- Ryan Atkinson
- Hannah Kreiswirth
- Anton Repponen
- Irene Pereyra
- Graham McDonnell
- Suchi Ahuja
- Pieter Konickx
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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.
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- Ada Sokol
- Alice Isaac
- Bozarth Fornell
- Buck
- Cécilia Poupon
- Femke Huurdeman
- Fisk gallery (Michael Spoljaric & Bijan Berahimi)
- Fredrik Bond
- Hassan Rahim
- Jonathan Castro Alejos
- Kelly Anna
- Leslie David
- Nicolai Niermann
- RGBerlin
- Roosje Klap
- Serial Cut
- Shawna X
- Studio Amos Fricke
- Studio Pepe
- Sucuk und Bratwurst
- Tereza Ruller / The Rodina
- Wang & Söderström
- Yarza Twins
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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.
🙋♀️ 🙋♂️ Speakers
- Ramia Mazé
- Flavia Dzodan
- Akwugo Emejulu
- Ahmed Ansari
- Cameron Tonkinwise
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Ideas in Motion // The Art of Motion Design and VFX
📍 Toronto, Canada
Ideas in Motion is an exploration of the design process and art behind motion 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 through sight and sound will examine, and dissect the creative approaches behind industry leading studios and agencies.
🙋♀️ 🙋♂️ Speakers
- Joyce Ho
- David Sheldon-Hicks
- David Karlak
- Manija Emran
- Olga Midlenko
- Laurie Brugger
- Jorge R. Canedo E.
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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.
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Creative Works Conference
📍 Memphis, United States
The 6th annual Creative Works Conference. Three days designed to connect, inspire and empower a driven creative community.
🙋♀️ 🙋♂️ Speakers
- David Carson
- Lisa Congdon
- Ty Mattson
- Mina Markham
- Ayana Campbell Smith
- Becky Simpson
- Adé Hogue
- Scotty Russell
- Tina Essmaker
- Tyler Deeb
- Adam Garcia
- Maggie Enterrios
- Kyle Key
- Ignacio Osorio
- Sarah-Grace Mankarious
- Michael Carpenter
- Dan Janssen
- Kayla Fritz
- Hannah Epelbaum
- Alicja Colon
- Josh Horton
- Rogie King
- Christen Carter
- Amélie Lamont
- Thomas Wimberly
- Indhira Rojas
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Core77 conference
📍 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.
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.
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Brand New Conference 2019
📍 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.
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POST Design Festival 2019
📍 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.
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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
PUSH UX 2019
📍 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.
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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.
🙋♀️ 🙋♂️ Speakers
- Stefan Sagmeister
- Random Studio
- Darsha Hewitt
- Mala Kumar
- Foxdog Studios
- Vladan Joler
- Hyphen Labs
- Locomotive
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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.
Belfast Design Week
📍 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'.
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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.
beyond tellerrand // BERLIN 2019
📍 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.
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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.
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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.
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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"
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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.