Neon Moiré Newsletter #262

Your weekly design event guide.

Featured Event 💫

Open Call

This month the Supporting Act Foundation is running it's annual open call for it's two grant programs:

📍 IMPACT GRANT
For non-profit, artist-led grassroots organizations with community-driven approaches towards using arts for social change, particularly those offering support to emerging artists from underrecognized groups, registered in the Netherlands, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain, or Italy, or with fiscal sponsors in one of these countries

📍 CREATIVE BURSARY
For undergraduate students from marginalized or under-recognized groups in the final year of studies, who are experiencing financial hardship, with a bank account in the Netherlands, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain, or Italy

Note: Please read the guides available on the Supporting Act Foundation website for full eligibility criteria.

Applications will be reviewed by an independent jury of artists, organizers, educators and current grantees who will also decide the new cohort of grantees.
Deadline 18 September 2023

More info 👉 thesupportingact.org/programs

Design Events happening this week

AndNowEast Poster Festival
📅 to 17 September 2023
📍Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
Explore the vibrant world of Eastern European design at the highly anticipated AndNowEast Poster Festival, back for its second edition! Set against Bucharest's historic Piața Amzei backdrop, this immersive event is your gateway to a rich tapestry of visual creativity.
🔗 andnoweast.com

beyond tellerrand Berlin
📅 11 + 12 September 2023
📍 Berlin, Online, 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.
🔗 beyondtellerrand.com

Live Interview with Chief Design Officer at La Perla
📅 12 September 2023
📍 Online
Want insights on how to get promoted to the top position, build and lead teams to success and drive change in your company? Join our conversation with Nicole Rendone, Chief Design Officer at La Perla. She will discuss her career journey, empathy, and how to lead a global creative team.
🔗 fla.wiki

The UXConf 2023
📅 13 September 2023
📍 Online and London, UK 🇬🇧
Tired of same old theoretical UX conference talks? The UXConf got no «waffle», no slides UX design conference for you at the iconic Southbank Centre in London and online — just live demos of UX and UI tools, design quiz, and «Designer vs AI» battlefield. The most diverse crew of speakers from Eurostar, Tripadvisor, HubSpot and others.
Get 10% off the conference tickets using discount code DESIGNEVENTSGUIDE10 at checkout.
🔗 theuxconf.com

Forward Festival Berlin - SOLD OUT
📅 14 + 15 September 2023
📍 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.
🔗 forward-festival.com/berlin/

Brave New World
📅 14 + 15 September 2023
📍 Leiden, The Netherlands 🇳🇱
Brave New World is a 2-day annual conference for people who want to know what the future holds in store and how this will affect their business, policies, and life.
🔗 bravenewworld.nl/

UX Horizon
📅 14 + 15 September 2023
📍 Utrecht, The Netherlands 🇳🇱
Multiple perspectives on User Experience Design, the craft and the field. Come join us for talks, workshops, entertainment, socializing and more!
🔗 ux-horizons.com/

Motion Plus Design Split
📅 15 September 2023
📍 Split, Croatia 🇭🇷
Motion Plus Design is promoting the art of motion design across the world by creating international events and sharing its best resources.
motion-plus-design.com

Motion Plus Design Rotterdam
📅 16 September 2023
📍 Rotterdam, The Netherlands 🇳🇱
Motion Plus Design is promoting the art of motion design across the world by creating international events and sharing its best resources.
motion-plus-design.com

Service Design Days
📅 15 + 16 September 2023
📍 Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸
The Service Design Days is a cross-disciplinary platform for change makers, influencers, and decision makers of small and large organisations, involved in product and service innovation, organisation transformation, and value creation through design.
🔗 servicedesigndays.com/

London Design Festival
📅 16 to 24 September 2023
📍 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 2022 the event returns for its 20th anniversary, hosting more than 300 events across 12 design districts throughout London.
🔗 londondesignfestival.com/

See all upcoming events in September.

Which event(s) are you attending? Let me know in the comments, below.

Ongoing exhibitions

The Messyverse
📅 to 6 October 2023
📍Amsterdam, The Netherlands
THE MESSYVERSE is a dynamic, large-scale event during Amsterdam Fashion Week. The two-day festival takes place September 2 and 3, 2023 at Felix Meritis in Amsterdam, and serves as the kick off for the art exhibition, which offers a deeper engagement with these issues over it's five week run.
🔗 felixmeritis.nl/themessyverse

Biennale internationale de design graphique
📅 to 28 October 2023
📍 Le Signe, Chaumont 🇫🇷
Le Signe, National centre for Graphic design in France, returns this year for the 4th edition of its famous Biennale internationale de design graphique in Chaumont
🔗 centrenationaldugraphisme.fr/le-signe

Filipe Pantone - Prospective
📅 to 1 October, 2023
📍 Kunsthal, Rotterdam 🇳🇱
For the exhibition at the Kunsthal Argentinian-Spanish artist Felipe Pantone has created a site-specific installation which, together with a selection of existing and new works. The exhibition Prospective transports you to Pantone’s futuristic world where technology and street art meet.
🔗 kunsthal.nl/en/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/felipe-pantone

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