KIKK Festival

Namur, Belgium

The KIKK Festival, an international festival of creative and digital cultures, will be held for the 13th time in Namur from October 24 to 27, 2024. For four days, digital artists, companies and the general public will be coming together to exchange ideas, learn and network in a festive and creative setting. This unique international event in Belgium aims to bring together, inspire and highlight the most innovative projects through talks, meetings, exhibitions and demonstrations. This festival has become a not-to-be-missed event, offering the chance to discover developments in a teeming, bubbling world, gain a better understanding of its codes and question its challenges.

Speakers

  • Stefan Sagmeister
  • Anna Ginsburg
  • Sofia Crespo
  • Mr Bingo
  • Ferdi Alici
  • Dr. Formalyst
  • Marcin Ignac
  • Borja Martinez
  • Robyn Landau
  • Andreas Refsgaard
  • Dasha Ilina
  • Sebastian Schmieg
  • Jessica In
  • Brendan Dawes
  • Pinaffo & Pluvinage
  • Wouter van Dijk
  • Liza Enebeis
  • Joel Gethin Lewis
  • Niklas Roy

KIKK Festival trailer

Creative Paper Conference 2024

Munich, Germany

The Creative Paper Conference is a biennial fine paper fair in Munich, featuring keynotes by designers and creative professionals, as well as an exhibition by representatives of the creative paper industry. The two day event emphasizes the importance of print in today's media landscape and offers insights into the latest developments in creative communication on paper.

SmashingConf Antwerp

Antwerpen, Belgium

Smashing Magazine’s conference is coming back to Antwerp, Belgium on October 28–31, 2024. It’s a friendly — 2-day single-track —  hybrid conference focusing on Design and UX, with topics like design systems, usability, interface design and accessibility. The conference also offers six hands-on workshops the day before and after the conference, and has many fun side events.

Leading Design London

London, UK

Leading Design is a two day gathering of design leaders from around the globe. This world-class conference is designed specifically for people leading design teams, or over-seeing design direction. It is curated and hosted by design transformation consultancy Clearleft.

beyond tellerrand – Berlin 2024

Berlin, Germany

Here we are. beyond tellerrand Berlin edition no. 9 after we started here in 2014. Join us for another dose of technology, creativity and the Web on two days on November 7 and 8, 2024. beyond tellerrand is the event, where design and technology meet!

PUSH UX 2024

Munich, Germany

PUSH UX is a lovingly crafted platform for hands-on design professionals, product minded innovators and creative technologists.

Pictoplasma on Tour London

London, United Kingom

Pictoplasma is going on the road! This November, the leading character design conference from Berlin heads to London for a dense 1-day programme of featured artist lectures, animation screenings and opportunities to connect with a local community of character experts and enthusiasts. Hosted by the prestigious Royal College of Art at their intimate Gorvy Theatre on Battersea Campus, this one-day event promises to deliver an inspiring deep dive into the creative worlds of leading talent and is an incentive to connect the vibrant scene of character creators from London.

Eastern European Design Festival

Vilnius, Lithuania

The festival focuses on the visual design of Eastern and Southern Europe, with the goal of expanding knowledge of design culture in the region and to unite the design community from across the continent. Eastern European Design Festival will take place in Vilnius on 16-18 November and in Warsaw on 20-23 November.

Grafixx

Antwerp, Belgium

Grafixx is a platform for the creation, presentation and dissemination of cartoons, illustration and graphics. Its activities are at the intersection of literature, visual and applied arts, with a specific focus on the development of creators and their networks.

International Assembly festival

Glasgow, Scotland

The festival will kick off on Thursday 28th November with a 1-day conference in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall featuring 10+ creative legends from around the world. Following the conference, the festival will move to the Glue Factory for the opening of the 2024 International Poster Exhibition and launch night!

DEMO Festival

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

DEMO shows the world’s best motion design on outdoor screens in the public space. The full motion programme will be shown in the Netherlands, in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Tilburg, Eindhoven and Utrecht. A special selection will also be shown on XL and spectacular screens in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Cardiff, Leeds, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan and Vancouver.

DEMO Festival trailer

DIBI Conference

Postponed

Edinburgh, Scotland

DIBI (Design It. Build It.) Conference 2025 is an international digital conference for designers and developers who are shaping the future of the web. Meticulously curated to explore the dynamic world of digital products and services, this edition provides a platform for leading industry voices to inform, challenge and inspire across commercial, creative and technical domains. Whether you're a designer, developer or product manager, you'll come away with actionable insights and new inspiration to take your projects to the next level.

The Art Department 2025

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Fest and conference focussing on the design process and craftsmanship in film, animation and games. In 2025 The Art Department will return to industrial venue Klokgebouw with a program packed with artist talks, demos, screenings, live sketching sessions, portfolio reviews, recruitment and so much more! A playground for the creative industry.

OFFF Barcelona 2025

Barcelona, Spain

Design festival OFFF Barcelona returns following its debut event in 2001, running across three days in April at Disseny Hub Barcelona. The festival presents workshops, masterclasses, keynotes, installations, performances and awards, exploring sound, graphic, web and user experience design, as well as photography, illustration and film.

SXSW London

London, United Kingdom

SXSW London builds on a peerless legacy created over almost four decades in Austin, Texas, where innovations in technology and science are presented and debated alongside some of the most challenging issues of our time - from AI to climate change, politics to society

CXI Brand Conference

Bielefeld, Germany

The 15th 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.

OFFFTLV

Tel Aviv, Israel

Offftlv is a Digital Creativity Festival hosting the most innovative creators. A community inviting all those who are eager to learn to participate and get inspired in a two-day conference journey of talks on 3 stages, workshops and inspiration.

OFFFTLV trailer