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📍 Split, Croatia
This year’s Speculative Design Workshop (Interakcije 2018) will focus on one of the most relevant global topics: climate change.
Free
📍 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
€ 260 – € 500
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📍 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.
From £ 10
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📍 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.
📍 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.
📍 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.
📍 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.
From $499
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📍 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.
From $249 / Student $99
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📍 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.
📍 Utrecht, The Netherlands
Impakt is a annual multidisciplinary festival with an emphasis on audiovisual arts. Theme: Algorithmic superstructures.
From € 27
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📍 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.
$160 early bird / $185 after 1 August 2018 / $75.00 for students
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📍 Košice, Slovakia
First edition of Eastern Design Conference. Design is global yet business stays local. At Eastern Design Conference, we explore this relationship.
📍 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.
From €149 to €799
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📍 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.The event gathers people of all backgrounds from all around the world. They are designers, scientists, makers, entrepreneurs, artists, architects, developers or musicians.
Neon Moiré Show with Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun, Designer of Experiences
Free or Pro 199€. Get discount on your PRO-pass by using promo code "neonmoire-KIKKPRO".
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📍 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
€ 279
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📍 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?
Starting at £99 + Tax
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📍 Paris, France
The first parisian event dedicated to advanced online graphic techniques and creative coding. From November 12th to 16th 2018, GROW will showcase the many ways in which creativity can leverage code. Alongside world class artists, game designers and creative developers, Grow will host public and pro sessions, workshops, kid workshops, exhibitions, parties (of course) and a New Kids session dedicated to the young and emerging creative coding talents.
📍 Vilnius, Lithuania
The first User Experience Design conference in Vilnius! A conference about usability, ethics, behavioral science, strategy, and accessibility in design. UX Vilnius is for professionals in the field of User Experience, their managers, people in marketing – and anyone working with design.
€ 299. Early Bird tickets are available until September 15th: € 249
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📍 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
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Super Early Bird €95 / Early Bird €115 / Combi Ticket €135 + fees
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📍 Belfast, United Kingdom
A one-day conference for web/UX designers and front-end developers with practical and inspiring talks, featuring eight speakers. The presentations will cover CSS Grid, Web Components, Custom Properties, inclusive design, web performance, progressive enhancement, ecommerce design, web animations, navigation design. There are also two workshops on 22 November, and a conference warm-up!
£125 (conference ticket) | £269 (Smart Responsive UX Design Patterns workshop with Vitaly Friedman) | £349 (conference and Vitaly workshop bundle, save £45!) | £62.50 (half-price conference tickets for students) | £25 (Adobe XD Deep Dive workshop)
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📍 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.
📍 Geneva, Switzerland
Digital Design Days is a 3-day event that unites the world’s best creative and business minds to grow business through digital design thinking. Through keynotes, workshops, digital installations, networking and parties. This edition theme is "Business Growth through Digital Design"
📍 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.
FITC is the intersection between Creative Technologists, Designers, Developers and all-around awesome thinkers from various innovative industries across the globe. They converge every year in Amsterdam to connect, challenge, inspire and to experience the cutting edge in design and technology.
From €99
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📍 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.
📍 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".
📍 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.
€ 200 / Mega Early Bird ticket: €135
📍 Leeds, United Kingdom
The Leeds Digital Festival is a city-wide, open platform celebration of all things digital within Leeds.
📍 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
📍 Bratislava, Slovakia
By Design Conference is a international conference for designers, entrepreneurs and creative minds. The one day event focus on design and business.