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.
📍 Singapore , Singapore
The 8th edition of A Design Film Festival Singapore wrestles with the evolving relationship between humans and technology, featuring films that deal with artificial intelligence, emoji, autonomous vehicles, contemporary art and consumerism, fashion, and music.
📍 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.
📍 Mar del Plata, Argentina
For almost 20 years TRImarchi has been gathering the biggest design community in Latin America. TRImarchi is a 3 days festival, with lectures from all over the world, going from Graphic Design to Vernacular expressions
📍 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.
📍 Athens, Greece
Digitized 2019 is a series of exciting events that bring together and inspire the digital creative community in Southeastern Europe. Presentations, workshops and networking events combined to create content which is useful, fun and relevant.
📍 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.
📍 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Design Thinking Conference is an experimental, interactive and high-energy gathering by & for experienced design thinking practitioners.
📍 Bengaluru, India
DesignUp is the go-to conference for actionable takeaways on Interactive Design. Discover how Interaction Design in it's myriad forms works with tech to impact business, society and communities!
📍 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
!! WEBCONF.ASIA WILL BE POSTPONED read here why 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.
📍 Tokyo, Japan
For its third edition in Tokyo, Motion Plus Design will invite the cream of the crop of the best worldwide Motion Designers for a one full day of talks at Shibuya Hikarie on Saturday, November 30th at 9:30am!
📍 San Francisco, USA
In/Visible Talks is a conference for creative professionals that celebrates the art of design. In 2020, In/Visible Talks asks their speakers—and attendees—to GO BEYOND the expected perspectives, guardrails, materials, and thinking. The creative process isn’t always a linear one and there’s much to be gained by hearing how others have navigated the rich and variegated landscape of people, ideas, deadlines, and passion. In/Visible Talks program focuses on fresh takes and honest talks about the process, inspiration, and challenges behind the creative practice.
📍 Tokyo, Japan
A Digital Thinkers conference by Awwwards in Tokyo. A design conference about creating new experiences to sell more and to discover trends, new technologies, network and unveil the secrets of the Internet
📍 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.
📍 Melbourne, Australia
Pause Fest is an independent, industry driven movement with a mission to bring diverse intelligence together to fuel the next generation forward. Join the movement, be the change, make progress.
📍 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.
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Now in its 13th year, FITC Amsterdam features the world’s most innovative, technical and creative talks that will inspire you to pursue your dreams and create your very best work. You’ll have the opportunity to meet and mingle with like-minded individuals who have the potential to become key collaborators throughout your career. Connect with people who share your creative passion, whether in the exhibitor hall or at one of the legendary after-parties. Who knows, you could meet your next business partner, employee, mentor or boss at FITC.
📍 Austin, United States
The South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference & Festivals celebrate the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries. Fostering creative and professional growth alike, SXSW® is the premier destination for discovery.
📍 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"
📍 Toronto, Canada
19th year of #FITCToronto! It’s the Future of Innovation, Technology, and Creativity in Toronto. FITC Toronto is a professional celebration of the best the world has to offer in design, digital development, media and innovation in creative technologies – three days and nights of presentations, parties, installations and performances that unite and transform the industry.
📍 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.
📍 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 12th edition.
📍 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.
📍 Kansas City, USA
Since 1999, ICON, the Illustration Conference, brings together top illustrators, designers, educators, representatives, and art buyers to explore the future of illustration. With more than 60 speakers on stage over four days, ICON is committed to providing a diverse forum for an ongoing dialogue that serves the illustration, design, publishing, advertising, and academic communities.
📍 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 August 25th and 26th 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 January 20th, 2020.
📍 Antwerp, Belgium
The 5th edition of Us by Night a design & creativity festival that turned into a unique night experience. With an inspiring lineup of 70+ artists and an endless market, it's guaranteed to provide you 3 nights you don't want to miss.
📍 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.
