Neon Moiré Newsletter #265

If you are living in the Netherlands or Belgium, read my write up on design events happening this month, in Dutch, on Linkedin.

Congratulations to Tina Roth Eisenberg on the 15th anniversary of CreativeMornings NYC this Friday, October 6. 🥳 Join us on Friday for a livestream of Michael Bierut's talk on Endurance.

Design events this week

Week 40 - 2 to 8 October

Big Brand. Small Brand.
📅 Tuesday, 3 October 2023
📍 London, UK Online / Free
What is the difference between designing for small and big brands? Join the Future London Academy webinar to learn how Campbell and Robyn Butler, Founders of Lovework Studio and ex-Wolff Olins and DesignStudio experts, approach designing brands of different sizes and shapes. They will share their step-by-step processes based on examples from recent projects they've been working on.
🔗 fla.wiki/466HxI1

Nicer Tuesday
📅 Tuesday, 3 October 2023
📍 London, UK 🇬🇧
This 18+ event(!) hosted by It’s Nice That, with on stage Timi Akindele-Ajani, a photographer and filmmaker who will be talking about his moving and beautifully shot short film Guests, and Alva Skog, an illustrator renowned for their off-scale characters, with large hands and heads and buckets full of charm. And finally, what better way to continue the sunshine than with Barcelona’s most colourful studio, Hey. The studio founder Verònica Fuerte will be joining Nicer Tuesday all the way from Spain.
🔗 dice.fm

Inscript Experimental Type Festival - Join us here
📅 Wednesday, 4 to Sunday, 8 October 2023
📍 Online
Inscript is an experimental type festival taking place online. Inscript explores the overlap of typography and experimental tech, including but not limited to artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, creative coding, physical computing and innovative use of traditional craft.
🔗 inscript.tf

Achieving pixel perfect polish - Hatch Conference Mixer London
📅 Wednesday, 4 October 2023
📍London, UK
Meet the London UX Community at Incident.io's offices in central London. Speaker is Dimitra, a product engineer at incident.io for the past year. She has worked as a backend engineer in previous roles, but my origin story is very much rooted in design!
🔗 hatchconference.com/mixers/london

Designing with Heart: How Empathy Helps Designing Better Products - Hatch Conference Mixer Berlin
📅 Wednesday, 4 October 2023
📍 Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪
Ever felt like you're just designing for data points rather than real, breathing humans? Join us to talk about the transformative power of empathy
🔗 hatchconference.com/mixers/getyourguide

UX Salon: Modeling Content: Design from the Inside Out - Hatch Conference Mixer Barcelona
📅 Wednesday, 4 October 2023
📍 Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸
Meet the UX community in Barcelona with this collaboration of Hatch Conference and UX Salon Barcelona, hosted in the awesome offices of King!
Speaker Nevan Scott talks about content models map out what information is available within a system, and the relationships between pieces of content.
🔗 hatchconference.com/mixers/barcelona

Banking on Tap: Design & Fintech Happy Hour - Hatch Conference Mixer Berlin
📅 Wednesday, 4 October 2023
📍 Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪
Join Hatch as the gather together to connect with fellow digital leaders in the industry and unlock valuable insights into the ever-evolving landscape of financial services. This event is designed to foster meaningful conversations, exchange ideas, and explore innovative solutions that are transforming the industry.
🔗 hatchconference.com/mixers/quantummetric

Design System in Spotlight - Hatch Conference Mixer Berlin
📅 Wednesday, 4 October 2023
📍 Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪
Join Hatch for a design event meet-up focused on exploring the current state and future prospects of Design Systems. In this engaging session, we will delve into the various aspects of Design Systems and the exciting developments that lie ahead.
🔗 hatchconference.com/mixers/dayone

Hatch Conference
📅 Thursday, 5 and Friday, 6 October 2023
📍 Online, Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪 
Stay up to date with all relevant topics in UX & Digital Design from speakers like Brad Frost and Jaime Levy. Participate in online workshops and get access to recordings for 6 months.
👉 GET 20% OFF using the code NEONMOIRE.
🔗 hatch.berlin

Webflow Conf
📅 Thursday, 5 October 2023
📍 San Francisco, Online, USA 🇺🇸
A celebration of the makers, creators, and visionaries behind the world's greatest websites in San Francisco and online. At Webflow Conf, you’ll be the first to experience new Webflow features and level up your skills with interactive challenges. You’ll have the opportunity to connect with a thriving community of Webflow users to share expertise, swap stories, and meet new people. And Webflow’s community comes together to celebrate this year’s wins, and most importantly, have fun!
🔗 webflow.com/webflowconf

In Motion - Join us here
📅 Thursday, 5 and Friday, 6 October 2023
📍 Rotterdam, The Netherlands 🇳🇱
In Motion is fest on cutting edge creativity, motion & design. A catwalk of all liquid, trending and new visual culture in one of the most forward looking and constantly reinventing itself cities in the Netherlands! Expect a line-up of post-digital storytelling, cutting-edge creativity, fluid media, cross-genre projects, innovative works and artists.
🔗 weareplaygrounds.nl/event/in-motion-rotterdam-2023

Forward Festival Vienna
📅 Thursday, 5 and Friday, 6 October 2023
📍 Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹
A festival gathering around a conference with the best international and local personalities who provide insight and success stories. Accompanied by a saucerful of side events with workshops, live art and networking sessions.
🔗 forward-festival.com/vienna

etceteras: feminist festival of design and publishing
📅 Thursday, 5 to Saterday, 7 2023
📍Porto, Portugal 🇵🇹
Feminist literacies are collective fabulations. It is through the interlocking efforts of writers, editors, publishers, designers, artists, printers, booksellers, distributors, translators, researchers, librarians, smugglers—and so many others—that feminist ideas move around. ‘Etceteras’ programme offers lectures, workshops, moderated talks, performances, film screenings, a book fair and more.
🔗 etceteras.net/

What Design Can Do Mexico
📅 Friday, 6 October 2023
📍 Mexico City, Mexico 🇲🇽
A festival exploring the power of design and how it can transform our world.
What Design Can Do Mexico will delve into climate and equality-related issues with a special focus on the links between ancestral knowledge, heritage and design.
🔗 whatdesigncando.com

Eastern Design Conference
📅 Friday, 6 and Saturday, 7 October 2023
📍 Košice, Slovakia 🇸🇰
A 2 day design conference with 20 + international speakers including the Designer + Client talks, a bit portion of Eastern vibes & entertainment and much more.
🔗 easternconf.com

Redo Prishtina
📅 Friday, 6 to Sunday, 8 October 2023
📍 Prishtina, Kosovo
Redo invites you to come and celebrate the tenth edition of REDO, the annual International graphic design and visual arts event in Prishtina, Kosovo. REDO is a three-day event in motion that brings together designers from around the world to create a discourse around the current issues within the practice of graphic design. Through a series of talks, music events, books, and tours of the city, REDO provides an opportunity for designers to get together in and around the city of Prishtina.
🔗 redoprishtina.com

Weltformat
📅 Saturday, 7 to Sunday, 15 October 2023
📍 Lucerne, Switserland 🇨🇭
Weltformat is the annual graphic design festival in Switzerland. It is held in various locations in Lucerne. Every year another renowned (mostly Swiss) studio is invited to create the festival poster that is hung all over Switzerland.
🔗 weltformat-festival.ch

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

On view from this week

Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today at Museu del Disseny de Barcelona
📅 5 October 2023 to 7 Januari 2024
📍 Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, Barcelona
Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today offers a critical survey of the achievements and the working conditions of women designers in the last century. The exhibition presents objects created by leading female protagonists in different areas of design ranging from furniture, interiors, graphic design and lighting, to textiles, ceramics and jewellery.

REBOOT: Pioneering Digital Art at the Nieuwe Instituut
📅 7 October 2023 to 1 April 2024.
📍 Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
REBOOT explores the impact of digital technology on art and society. Key works by artists such as Edward Ihnatowicz, Dick Raaijmakers, Driessens & Verstappen, and Debra Solomon also serve as inspiration for new works by VR artist Ali Eslami, writer Swendeline Ersilia, artist Jonas Lund, Play the City and many more.

Random International at NXT Museum
📅 27 September 2023 to 30 June 2024
📍 NXT Museum Amsterdam
This fall, NXT Museum in Amsterdam presents a solo exhibition by Random International. With interactive and immersive installations, the London-based art collective explores and pushes the boundaries between technology, people and nature. The sensitive works fillet the modern zeitgeist in which digital and analog, online and offline and natural and artificial are intertwined. It is the first time the digital art collective is to be seen in the Netherlands.

Capture #2 at Le Pavillon
📅 23 September, 2023 to 14 January, 2024
📍 Le Pavillon, Namur 🇧🇪
Capture #2 is the second edition of a series of exhibitions conceived by the KIKK to make visible the diversity and creativity of digital arts in Belgium. The exhibition presents recent projects by artists who all use new technologies to capture the world in their own way. Curated by Marie du Chastel.

The Best Dutch Book Designs at Stedelijk
📅 30 September, to 30 december 2023
📍Stedelijk, Amsterdam
The annual exhibition presents the 33 books best books, selected from 262 entries, ranging from non-fiction and children's books to art books and graphic novels.

Click worthy

Coleman Hughes spoke at TED back in April, but found what he could not have imagined from an organization whose tagline is “ideas worth spreading” is that it would attempt to suppress his talk.

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Last Saturday opend the Sphere in Las Vegas, this is look inside during the U2 concert. THe visuals are pretty amazing. It uses around 30MW on electricity during a show

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