Retune Festival

📍 Berlin, Germany

The Retune Festival is a biennial event at the intersection of Art, Design, and Technology. Happening from September 27 – 28, 2018 in Berlin. In its fifth edition, the Festival will bring together over 250 creative pioneers across 2 days.

AGI Open Mexico

📍 Mexico City, Mexico

AGI Open is an annual conference for students and professionals that coincides with the annual AGI members’ congress. AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) brings together the prominent graphic designers of the world.

Weltformat 18

📍 Lucerne, Switserland

10th edition of the international poster festival.

Web Unleashed 2018

📍 Toronto, Canada

Web Unleashed, the front-end developer event, helps front-end professionals learn the skills they need to push them ahead in their careers. Enjoy two full days and over 50 presentations from industry experts, plus endless opportunities to network and connect with like-minded developers, creative coders, evangelists, designers, technologists, managers, makers, engineers, educators, directors, strategists, enthusiasts and more! #WebU18

Playgrounds The Art Department 2018

📍 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. 40+ 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.

Let's Talk Design #19

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands

Let's Talk Design is a series of evenings with speakers from the creative sector talking about their work. At our events we let established creatives talk about their work next to young & upcoming talent. Let's Talk Design is a great event to meet other creatives and get inspired in an informal setting.

OFFF Vienna

📍 Vienna, Austria

First edition of OFFF Vienna. A new #OFFFonTour city. 2-days of OFFF Barcelona in Vienna. OFFF is a community inviting all those whom are eager to learn to participate and get inspired in a journey of conferences, workshops, activities and performances. #OFFFonTour

REDO Design Conference

📍 Prestina, Kosovo

Redo is an annual three-day event in Pristina. This is the sixth edition, and brings together designers from around the world to create a discourse around the current issues within the practice of graphic design.

We talked with REDO's program director Bardhi Haliti. We talk about organizing, graphic design, education and Pristina. Read the interview.

ADNIGHT

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands

50 creative agencies open their doors for one night only. All organizing their own program of talks, tours, and activities. With a line up of 50 agencies ranging from creative and design to film and music production and anything in between there is more than enough to discover! Participating agencies include 72andSunny, TBWA, Isobar, VICE, and many more!

Confront

📍 Malmö, Sweden

CONFRONT is a day about dev and design. It is an interactive day with keynotes, talks and workshops, focusing on the dialogue between developers and designers.

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KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2018

📍 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival gives a stage to animation and shows feature films, short films, VR productions, commercials, installations and games. An important part of the festival is the international competition in which the best new animations are presented that were made last year. Special feature films will also be screened.

THE ARTS+ festival

📍 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

THE ARTS+ (“Future of Culture Festival”) is a festival dedicated to the future of the creative and cultural industries, core topic is the transformation of culture and creativity by digitization. THE ARTS+ takes places at the Frankfurter Buchmesse from October 10 – 14, 2018 in Hall 4.1. With inspiring speakers such as Galit Ariel, JiaJia Fei and Frank Thelen, the first “Frankfurt AI conference” and the Networking day “A book is a film is a game”. Plus extraordinary performances by "Cyborg" Moon Ribas, the holographic singer Maya Kodes and 3D Drum Girl LIZZY.

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Torino Graphic Days Vol.03

📍 Turin, Italy

Torino Graphic Days is the festival that celebrates creativity, visual design and graphic experimentation.

The festival's third editions will guide you through the discovery of a new program of events, exhibitions, workshops, talks, performances and more. The festival will deal with all the aspects of graphic design: from handcrafted techniques, like engraving, to the artistic field’s ones, like illustration and sign painting and to contemporary sectors like branding and animation. This year edition will host many exhibitions and performances and, during the week-end, the market fair dedicated to all the different artisanal and innovative entities coming from the visual communication field. There is a brand new festival area dedicated to publishing houses and independent magazines.

Signal Festival

📍 Prague, Czech Republic

Signal Festival is a four-day festival of light art and emerging technologies in Prague, Czech Republic. Held annually in October, lighting designers from the Czech Republic and abroad create lighting installations in streets and public spaces across the city, including famous historical landmarks.

OFFF TLV 2018

📍 Tel Aviv, Israel

Second edition of OFFF TLV. Two days of OFFF creativity in Tel Aviv, Israel. OFFF is a place to connect en get inspired through interdisciplinary design and creativity.

What’s coming? 2 lecture halls, the market yard, interactive booths, Funzone, creative people and lots of global inspiration

Cinekid

📍 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.

Adobe MAX - The Creativity Conference.

📍 Los Angeles, United States

The Adobe MAX is an annual event held by Adobe Systems in North America, Europe and Japan. The purpose of the event is to promote the latest Adobe releases to those in the computer design and development industries.

Interactions 2018 — Speculative Design Workshop: Life After Disaster

📍 Split, Croatia

This year’s Speculative Design Workshop (Interakcije 2018) will focus on one of the most relevant global topics: climate change.

push conference 2018

📍 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

Graphic Design Festival Scotland

📍 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.

Information+ conference 2018

📍 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.

IEEE VIS 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.

​SmashingConf New York

📍 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.

Ideas in Motion

📍 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.

DesignThinkers Toronto 2018

📍 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.

Impakt Festival 2018: Algorithmic Superstructures

📍 Utrecht, The Netherlands

Impakt is a annual multidisciplinary festival with an emphasis on audiovisual arts. Theme: Algorithmic superstructures.

Bend Design 2018

📍 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.

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Eastern Design Conference

📍 Košice, Slovakia

First edition of Eastern Design Conference. Design is global yet business stays local. At Eastern Design Conference, we explore this relationship.

Productized Lisbon 2018

📍 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.

KIKK Festival 2018

📍 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.

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beyond tellerrand Berlin

📍 Berlin, Germany

Beyond tellerrand is an event for the design and development community. Taking place in Düsseldorf and Berlin.

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Design It; Build It

📍 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?

GROW - GRaphics On the Web.

📍 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.

UX Vilnius

📍 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.

Us By Night

📍 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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Pixel Pioneers Belfast 2018

📍 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!

CTM Festival 2019

📍 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.

FITC Amsterdam 2019

📍 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.

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Elevate Festival 2019

📍 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.

IAM Weekend 2019

📍 Barcelona, Spain

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

#IAMW19

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.

Leeds Digital Festival

📍 Leeds, United Kingdom

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

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.

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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.