Neon Moiré Newsletter #251 — The Best Design Events this week May 29th to June 5th, 2023 🌸

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The Conference is the futures gathering you don’t want to miss

The Conference is an international two-day gathering in Malmö, Sweden with 1000 humans in one place. Together with 35+ speakers, we share knowledge and perspectives on AI-tools, entangled economies, design for belonging, real-talk sustainability and the unlocking of democracy, and more.

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📣 All Events and Workshops this week

DesignThinkers
📅 Wednesday, 31 to Thursday, 1 June 2023
📍 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.

RenderALT 📅 Wednesday, 31 to Friday, 2 June 2023
📍 Atlanta, USA 🇺🇸 
The RenderATL Conference focuses on software engineering and expert speakers across multiple topics like web/mobile, leadership, product & project management, and design/CSS.

Design Matters Tokyo 📅 Friday, 2 June to Saturday, 3 June 2023
📍 Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵 
Exploring new movements in digital design. Design Matters is a community of creative and curious minds who share the same drive and passion for digital design, technology, art, and society. It is also a platform to gather together, share ideas, and discuss experiences. We are designers ourselves. And so, Design Matters is made by designers, for designers, with designers on stage. Our mission is to spark up the conversation about the work and the role of digital designers – now and in the future. Each year, design practitioners jump on stage to talk with honesty and passion about their experiences, challenges, successes, and failures.

Palace Talk: Balancing between the designer’s identity and client demands
📅 Friday, 2 June 2023
📍 Breda, Netherlands
Designers are constantly looking for a balance between their own identity and the requirements of the client. How do designers deal with this balance and which values do they find important? This afternoon Nóra Békés and Studio Joost Grootens discuss this challenge.

HOW Design Live 📅 Monday, 5 June to Wednesday, 7 June 2023
📍 Boston, USA 🇺🇸 A four-day conference and 3-day expo for design, marketing, and creative professionals, with a focus on in-house practitioners in major corporate brands and design firms.

CreativePro Week 📅 Monday, 5 to Friday, 9 June 2023
📍 Phoenix, USA 🇺🇸 CreativePro Week is the essential HOW-TO conference for creative professionals who design, create, or edit in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, or Microsoft PowerPoint.

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Jane Duru from R/GA (SYD) at The Design Conference 2022

Jane Duru is a design director at R/GA, a global marketing communications agency, specializing in verbal design. She emphasizes the importance of storytelling and how it shapes perceptions and resonates with audiences. She presents case studies of projects she has worked on, including a rebranding of a fusion restaurant and the creation of a new museum, emphasizing the importance of collaboration and authenticity in the creative process. During her talk, Jane highlights the need for diversity in storytelling and challenges traditional norms of who gets to be the storyteller. Enjoy!

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More Events in June

The Design Conference
📅 Wednesday, 7 to Friday, 9 June 2023
📍 Brisbane, Australia 🇦🇺
The Design Conference is an event for creatives. Each year we navigate the future of design, including how you can be an active participant. Attendees are offered an opportunity to evolve their practice through an elevated way of thinking. From professional insights and advice to anecdotes of self-care and growth, this experience is designed to help you find your path, expand your mind and learn from those who came before you.

Birmingham Design Festival 📅 Thursday, 8 to Friday, 9 June 2023
📍 Birmingham, UK 🇬🇧 Birmingham Design Festival returns June 8-9 with the theme ‘Imagine’. The first day is fully packed with workshops. The second day is their in-person conference day. A day of talks from design royalty at the impressive Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

CSS Day
📅 Thursday, 8 to Friday, 9 June
📍 Amsterdam, The Netherlands 🇳🇱
CSS Day started out in 2013 as a single-day, laser-focused, advanced CSS conference, and we started intertwining design sessions a few years ago. Our attendees and speakers are a mix of CSS designers, developers, spec writers and browser vendors, who take pride in what they know and do. We're a conference with an informal vibe and plenty of breaks, where each person can approach one another.

Right Aligned Online Design Festival 📅 Friday, 9 June to Friday, 9 June
📍 Online
Hear from best-in-class creators, innovative community leaders, and empowering design studios during the Online Design Festival 2023.

By Design Conference 📅 Saturday, 10 to Saturday, 10 June
📍 Bratislava, Slovakia 🇸🇰 By Design Conference is an international multidisciplinary conference focused on design and design thinking, for designers, entrepreneurs and creative minds.

Typographics 📅 Monday, 12 to Thursday, 22 June 2023
📍 New York City, USA 🇺🇸 Letrastica is an international event of typography and design that takes place every two years in Guadalajara, Mexico. The festival includes conferences, workshops, and exhibitions on a global level, demonstrations, professional critiques, and an open forum. At Letrastica we share, talk, and learn about typography, calligraphy, lettering, design, and technology.

Sonar Plus D 📅 Thursday, 15 to Saturday, 17 June 2023
📍 Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸 Sónar+D is an international congress exploring how creativity is changing our present and imagining new futures, collaborating with researchers, innovators, and business leaders. Artists, creative technologists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, thinkers, scientists, entrepreneurs, makers, and hackers participate in a carefully commissioned program aimed at inspiration and networking.

The Next Web Conference 📅 Thursday, 15 June to Friday, 16 June 2023
📍 Amsterdam, The Netherlands 🇳🇱 Immerse yourself in the world of tech at TNW Conference. Do business, get inspired, and immerse yourself in the future world of tech!

Pixel Poineers 📅 Friday, 16 June 2023
📍 Bristol, UK 🇬🇧
A one-day conference of practical and inspiring UX/UI design and front-end talks, featuring eight world-class speakers, preceded by a workshop day.

Design Village
📅 Saturday, 10 June 2023
📍 Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine 🇺🇦 
Design Village returns to meet on June 10th in Ivano-Frankivsk to talk about Ukrainian visual communications during a full-scale invasion.

Motion Plus Design 📅 Saturday, 17 June 2023
📍 Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵
Motion Plus Design is promoting the art of motion design across the world by creating international events and sharing its best resources. With now yearly editions in Los Angeles, Paris & Tokyo

Design West Summer School
📅 Saturday, 17 to Friday 30 June 2023
📍 Letterfrack, Ireland 🇮🇪
Design West is an international summer design school located at the ATU Connemara campus in the beautiful village of Letterfrack in Co. Galway, on the West Coast of Ireland. For two weeks this summer, from June 17th to June 30th, 2023, participants will get the opportunity to work with leading International and Irish designers from renowned studios.

Config 📅 Wednesday, 21 to Thursday, 22 June 2023
📍 San Fransciso, USA 🇺🇸 and Online
Config is Figma’s annual conference bringing together designers, developers, product managers, and other creative professionals to share insights, learn from one another, and discuss the latest trends in design and technology.

UX London 📅 Thursday, 22 to Friday, 23 June 2023
📍 London, UK
A three-day UX event by Clearleft, combining inspirational talks with in-depth workshops presented by some of the industry’s biggest names.

Bump Festival 📅 Friday, 23 June 2023
📍 Kortrijk, Belgium 🇧🇪 
This annual creativity event is organized by the bachelor Devine at Howest, de Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen

Dutch Digital Day 📅 Friday, 23 June 2023
📍Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱 
Every year, Dutch Digital Agencies (DDA), the trade association for the digital industry, organizes Dutch Digital Day (DDD). The event is for the entire industry of digital agencies with inspiring speakers from home and abroad.

Collision Conf 📅 Monday, 26 to Thursday, 29 June 2023
📍 Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 Collision brings together the people and companies redefining the global tech industry.

LADFEST
📅 Friday, 30 to Saturday, 1 July 2023
📍 Lima, Peru 🇵🇪 Latin American Design Festival LADFEST is a gathering in Lima with recognized designers from Latin America and the world. LADFEST will be held in Museo de la Nación in Lima. The festival features lectures, workshops, exhibitions, a design market, and young talent. A selection of the best Latin American designers and creatives up to 30 years old will present their projects at the festival.

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