The Art Department Eindhoven + Berlin
Eindhoven (20+21 April) + Berlin (13+14 May)
Art, design & craftsmanship in film, animation and games. A playground for the creative industry.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kaboom Animation Festival is the one-stop-shop for the latest and greatest in all things animated. Ranging from cutting-edge experimental arthouse to colorful stories for families and kids, Kaboom will cater to the animation needs of all. Yes, even yours, my amazing weirdo friend!
The world's largest Online Advertising Event. For two days on 29-30 March 2023, Ad World will stream 6+ Digital Advertising Tracks, consisting of hyper-focused speeches, panels and live Q&A sessions to help take your business to the next level.
Design Expert Amber Lundy talks about her career in Advanced Concept Design. She shares insights about AI and Machine-Learning enhanced Product Development, but also about corporate leadership communication and her work in a strategic design role.
Columbus, USA
Creative South is a weekend of creative thinking, collaboration, and exploration. Enjoy workshops, talks focused on process & experience, and networking in the design community.
In this workshop you'll learn how to create your own style guide & UI library as part of a design system using Figma.
Join industry leaders and fresh-faced pioneers for an informal and informative 2-day online conference.
Copenhagen, Denmark
In four chapters, the Post Design Tangle takes us deep into the theme of “entanglement,” where they will unravel the intersections, interconnections, and invisible strings that give shape to our visual and political surroundings. The third chapter, COMMUNITY, takes place April 14 - 15 in central Copenhagen, Denmark, bringing together six wildly inspiring designers and artists for an intense two-day participatory talks programme, social food and parties. Programme TBC
Düsseldorf, Germany
This workshop is a general overview workshop aimed at everyone involved in IT from executives to PMs, designers, developers, and QA.
Düsseldorf, Germany
Web performance is a broad and complex topic, and one of the most difficult tasks is simply working out where to start! This is a full-day workshop with Harry Roberts.
Düsseldorf, Germany
We are back in Düsseldorf. 2023 is the year in which we hope to go back to “normal”. Join us for the known mix of talks about creativity and technology, about design and code – in a friendly and inspiring atmosphere.
Toronto, Canada
FITC Toronto is a 2-day conference. Celebrating design, digital development, media, and innovation in creative technologies. The event explores the future of everything innovative, technical and creative to leave you informed, challenged and inspired. Before the conference there is a optional workshop day.
Düsseldorf, Germany
SVG animation is a brilliant way to bring personality and character to an online experience. But in an industry focused on metrics, these whimsical details are often overlooked or undervalued. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to craft delightful animations, which will help you deliver more engaging digital products.
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Fest on concept art, design, and craftsmanship in film, animation, and games. This spring Playgrounds will take over the industrial venue Klokgebouw again with a program packed with artist talks, demos, a free expo, screenings, live sketching sessions, portfolio reviews, recruitment, and much more.
Querétaro, Mexico
Dehache festival began as a project to gather friends, a small auditorium. 22 years later the organization has reinvented itself, transforming it to the congress of Graphic Design "Dejando Huella" or "DeHache" to one of the most important events on creativity in Mexico. Promoting and celebrating the Hispanic and Latin American design. Querétaro "Creative City of Design" is the meeting point and we will be waiting for you on April 21st and 22nd, 2023
Prague, Czech republic
Mouvo is a two-day event hosting world-class creators and thinkers from the intersection of graphic design, animation, video, and new technology. The eighth edition of Mouvo will explore the topic new.0 and the creators’ never-ending hunt for newness.
Leicester, England
Create is a series of FREE quarterly events for digital creators, producers, managers and administrators, aiming to inspire Leicester’s digital design community.
Minneapolis, USA
Confab is an event for people who care about making content better for their users and organizations. Spans several areas related to content strategy, including analytics and performance UX design, Workflows and stakeholders, content design for AI and bots, editorial assignments and calendars and hiring and staff management among other talks and topics.
Berlin, Germany
Pictoplasma Berlin welcomes all international character design pioneers, creatives and enthusiasts for a special 5-day IRL celebration of the very best in contemporary character design and art.
Nantes, France
The Motion Motion festival lets you discover motion design in all its diversity: 3D, 2D, stop motion, etc... in various graphic universes, through a program of exhibitions, workshops, concerts, mini-conferences, and meetings. The festival was born from the initiative of the French motion designers association.
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
All Flows is a two-day, creative industries and digital technology conference bringing together speakers from across disciplines.
Los Angels, USA
A new type of web3 conference. A web3 celebration of art, culture, community, and technology. PROOF of Conference is happening at Skylight ROW in Downtown Los Angeles from May 11th to 13th, 2023.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The DIBI (Design It; Build It) team curates and produces events that explore the world of digital products and services. Our speakers inform, challenge and inspire across commercial, creative, and technical domains. The DIBI event programme centres around a flagship 2-day annual conference held in Edinburgh, Scotland. 11 - 12 May 2023
Berlin, Germany
After two amazing editions in 2019 and in 2022, The Art Department will be back in Berlin in 2023. At The Art Department, you dive into the process of creating and put a spotlight on the artists that are responsible for designing worlds, characters, and stories of some of the biggest productions.
Vienna, Austria
An intensive three-day introduction to information design: how to make complex information clearer and more usable. You'll learn to use basic theories to diagnose design problems, design patterns that build solutions and test your solutions.
Lisbon, Portugal
UXLx is the place where all UX Pros meet for the best training. Come to sunny Lisbon to get inspired with talks from industry-renowned speakers and upgrade your skills with hands-on workshops. Share and learn with hundreds of UXers from all over the world.
San Francisco, United States
The legendary SmashingConf SF 🇺🇸 is back — entirely focused on cutting-edge front-end.
Bielefeld, Germany
The 13th edition of CXI Brand talks! CXI is a one-day corporate and brand identity event organized by Bielefeld School of Design. During the sessions questions like "What defines the effectiveness of a corporate identity project?", "What exactly is needed, from both client and agency?", and "how can such a complex process be implemented in a way that works?" will be addressed, next to showcasing re-designs for big brands.
Vancouver, Canada
DesignThinkers, Canada's largest annual graphic design conference. DesignThinkers 2023 will take place in person in Vancouver with the theme of "Question Tomorrow." The design community will explore the many ways that design questions tomorrow. Whether it’s the democratization of tools, constantly evolving technologies, A.I. generated content, or the uncompromising vision of a new world by younger generations – the world of design is in rapid flux. This leaves us all with endless questions about the future. Progress is only ever threatening those afraid to ask the right questions and embrace more than one answer. Question. Tomorrow.
Eveleigh, Australia
Semi Permanent today announces the return of its festival of creativity and design to its homeplace of Sydney, set to take place at arts precinct Carriageworks as part of Vivid Sydney 2023, from 31st May through 2nd June 2023. Now in its 21st year, Semi Permanent will again bring together the creative industries across Asia Pacific for three days of inspiring keynote talks, panel discussions, workshops, exhibitions, demonstrations, installations, and more.
Arnhem, The Netherlands
At Five Talks Motion, five leading speakers take you to the wonderful world of motion. June first will be the place for five dazzling talks on graphics in motion supported by a delicious lunch and a glitzy quiz. Let's slap on some Motion Lotion! Note that most talks will be in Dutch.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
CSS Day 2023 takes place on June 8 & 9, 2023 in Amsterdam. CSS Daywill feature sessions by seven world-class speakers about curious, badly-known, or otherwise interesting CSS features.
Bratislava, Slovakia
By Design Conference is an international multidisciplinary conference focused on design and design thinking, for designers, entrepreneurs and creative minds.
London, United Kingdom
A three-day UX event by Clearleft, combining inspirational talks with in-depth workshops presented by some of the industry’s biggest names.
Lima, Perú
The Latin American Design Festival is a unique experience that inspires creative professionals to bring their ideas to life and transform the future of the creative industry.
London(ish), UK
OffGrid is an ideas festival aimed at those working in the creative industries. It is 48 hours on an island, 300 people, 12 speakers, talks, workshops, discussions, food, music, fires and big skies.
Porto, Portugal
An international two-week editorial design course in Porto, Portugal.
Malmö, Sweden
The Conference is a two-day conference where curious minds from all over the world meet to delve further into the promises and pitfalls of digital development and the human and machine relationship. Over two days The Conference explores the complexity of systems. The micro and macro of it all. Societal changes. Niche trends. Human behavior. Art and culture. The future and the past. Stuff like that. The sessions are carefully curated to help you connect the dots between the widespread topics. Speakers, programs, and side events will be announced continuously during Spring.
Freiburg, Germany
Our 11th SmashingConf Freiburg 🇩🇪 — all about front-end, UX and design — for front-end developers and designers.
Berlin, Germany
beyond tellerrand, the affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet, where design and code are at home, happens in Berlin again in its renowned, familiar and friendly atmosphere.
Berlin, Germany
Forward Festival returns to Berlin on 14 and 15 September 2023 and presents nothing less than a fireworks display of inspiration! Get ready for a program featuring more than 35 speakers on two stages, ranging from international heavyweights to local heroes of the creative industry, as well as exclusive side events, workshops, and much more.
London, United Kingdom
London Design Festival celebrates and promotes the city as a design capital on the global stage. As one of the world’s leading design events, the Festival has also served as the blueprint for design weeks and festivals globally and continues to be a key moment on the cultural calendar. London Design Festival takes place annually in the UK's capital city. In 2023 the event returns for its 21th edition, hosting more than 300 events across 12 design districts throughout London.
London, United Kingdom
No waffle, just practical live demos of UX & UI tools.
Chicago, USA
Brand New Conference is a two-day event on corporate and brand identity with some of today’s most active and influential practitioners from around the world.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Each year, design practitioners jump on stage to talk with honesty and passion about their experiences, challenges, successes, and failures.
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.
Berlin, Germany
HATCH is an invite-only event for experienced UX & Product Designers, taking place in Berlin, Germany and streaming to the world. Featuring talks, workshops and masterclasses from international design leaders.
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Playgrounds Blend is a catwalk of inspiring, progressive and innovative makers. Artists known for stretching outside of a genre and mashing things up take over our stage. With Blend we aim to signal new trends and developments in the industry and to connect visual art with other genres.
Lisbon, Portugal
At Productized Conference 2023, you will enjoy 2-days of workshops and practical tips, all based in the heart of Lisbon, on October 11-12. Are you interested in Product Management, Product Discovery, Design Thinking, or Service Design? Productized stands in the intersection of business, tech, and design.
Barcelona, Spain
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.
Munich, Germany
PUSH UX is a lovingly crafted platform for hands-on design professionals, product minded innovators and creative technologists.
Lisbon, Portugal
Web Summit is an annual technology conference held in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference's topics center on internet technology, emerging technologies, and venture capitalism. Web Summit's partners range from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, with attendees representing all levels and sectors of the global high technology industry.