Neon Monday #235 — February Updates 💕

Welcome to Issue 235!The February update!

This week an updated list of design-related events happening in February 💕 around the world.

Nicer Tuesday📅 Tuesday, 7 February 2023📍 London, UK 🇬🇧🎓 Good for: Creators of all kinds…To kick off a new year of Nicer Tuesdays has an incredible line-up: Wilfrid Wood, Suzy Chan, and Crack Magazine! They are ready and waiting to give you an insight into their creative worlds. They’ll be sharing wisdom on finding inspiration, honing your methods, and creating work that stands out from the crowd.

Growing up Underground. A Memoir of Counterculture New York📅 Wednesday, February 8 20236:30–8:30 pm📍 New York, USAJoin designer and author, Steven Heller and Anne Quito, for an intimate conversation about his recent coming-of-age memoir, Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counterculture New York. This memoir takes us on a deep visual dive into NYC’s youth culture eruption in the 1960s, and 1970 from Steven’s on-the-ground lived experience.

Leading Design 📅 Tuesday, 7 to Wednesday, 8 February 2023📍 San Francisco, USA 🇺🇸 🎓 Good for: Design ManagersLeading Design is a world-class conference for people leading design teams, overseeing design direction, or striving to instill a culture of design within their organizations.

#TDC68 Best in Show Panel📅 Thursday, 9 February 2023. 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST📍 Online 📡🎓 Good for: Brand DesignersThis online panel with Michael Bierut and Jonny Sikov of Pentagram focuses on the identity for International Center for Photography, which won the ‘best in show’ prize in the 68th TDC awards.

Outcome📅 Friday, 10 to Saturday, 11 February 2023📍 Chandigarh, India 🇮🇳🎓 Good for: Product designers, developersA conference about startups, products, UX, and design from a storytelling perspective.  

Graphika Manila📅 Saturday, 11 to Sunday, 12 February 2023📍 Manila, Philippines 🇵🇭 and online 📡 🎓 Good for: Digital Creators of all kinds…Two-day conference featuring creators and projects from the fields of design, animation, illustration, and beyond. Speakers include designer Beeple, UX Design Lead at Google Burton Rast, illustrators Soleil Ignacio as well as Dan Fajardo, and many others.

Tuesday, 14 February Valentine's day 💕

UX New Zealand📅 Wednesday, 15 to Friday, 17 February 2023📍 Wellington, New Zealand 🇳🇿 🎓 Good for: UX designers en developersThe event UX New Zealand is Aotearoa's biggest dedicated user experience conference. Whether you're new to UX or a seasoned professional, you'll gain valuable insights and inspiration - and have fun along the way!

Convey - the design community for transport transformers📅 Wednesday, 15 February 2023📍 Paris, France 🇫🇷 Convey is a community of meetups where anyone designing for transport, or anyone interested in transportation and travel design, can share their experiences and knowledge, and learn from the biggest players in the field. Inaugural meetup of 2023 focused on "Designing for Success - Balancing Discovery & Delivery", and hosted by BlaBlaCar.

Letterspace Amsterdam📅 Wednesday, 15 February 2023📍 Amsterdam, The Netherlands 🇳🇱With Olga Umpeleva, we not just have a native designer but someone that likes to explore untrodden paths and is now working for Dinamo.

Dive into Mid-Journey with Artist Heather Crank📅 Friday, 17 February 2023📍 OnlineDive into Mid-Journey with Heather Crank! In this 90min workshop, I'll live demo my process, and we will attempt to create a specific image together.

MANIFEST:IO📅 Friday, 17 and Saturday 18 February 2023📍 Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪A 2-day event featuring a series of talks, performances, and an exhibition that highlights new media projects and installations by emerging artists and media researchers.

Advocating for Design with Emily Cohen📅 Thursday, 23 February 2023, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EST📍 Online 📡🎓 Good for: DesignersIn this talk, Emily Cohen will discuss the current state of our industry’s value and discuss how we all can better advocate for our profession.

Interaction23📅 Saturday, 25 to Friday, 3 March 2023📍 Zurich, Switzerland 🇨🇭 and online 📡🎓 Good for: UX designers en developersInteraction 23, IxDA’s annual interaction design week, is taking place in a hybrid format this year from February 25 to March 3, 2023. The much-anticipated Interaction conference will be held at Zurich Convention Centre in Switzerland from March 1 – 3, 2023. The virtual segment will include the live streaming of the conference from the event venue. Apart from the conference, a series of activities from summits, and workshops to retreats have been scheduled to take place throughout the week.

Smashing Meets Figma📅 Tuesday, 28 February 2023, 8:00–11:00AM PT📍 Online 📡 , Free for everyoneThis edition is all about Figma, our favorite digital design tool — and a little bit about other tools — and how they can help you and your team to make your (work) life better. This Smashing Meets features three amazing speakers with practical and inspirational talks and closes with a challenge and an interactive panel discussion.

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2023 Wall Planner

It's not too late to get my useful 2023 wall planner and start planning out the year. The planner is printed on easy-to-write, thick, and durable matte paper. It measures 700x1000mm, and the paperweight is 189g/m² with a paper thickness of 0.26 mm. Available colors: Black and RGB Blue! The planner ships flat, within 5 workdays.

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