#322: Design Conferences and Festivals

Your weekly guide to design events. Week 50, Monday 9 December to Monday 16 December 2024

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Thomas Dahm
December 09, 2024

📅 This Week

10 December / Online
Product Design Leader Journey - VP of Product Design & Research at Headspace will share how to overcome organisational obstacles and make your company design-led.

12 December / Toronto
DesignX Holiday Edition - Come hang out with your DX fam in the Toronto to celebrate and close out 2024!

13 December / Online
Right Aligned – Unnamed Layers 002 with Sunny Bonnell - Design conversations exploring common issues and industry challenges

18 December / Online
How empathy can make you a Chief Design Officer - Live Interview with Chief Design Officer at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Which event are you attending?

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Eno - Berlin Premiere

Screening on January 14, 2025 and a post-film conversation with director Gary Hustwit and digital artist Brendan Dawes after the 6:30pm show, moderated by Marc Thiele. January 14, 2025. Berlin, Germany

www.neonmoire.com/event/1465/eno-berlin-premiere

Eno - Berlin Premiere (late screening)

Screening on January 14, 2025 and a post-film conversation with director Gary Hustwit and digital artist Brendan Dawes after the 6:30pm show, moderated by Marc Thiele. January 14, 2025. Berlin, Germany

www.neonmoire.com/event/1466/eno-berlin-premiere-late-screening

beyond tellerrand – Düsseldorf 2025

beyond tellerrand is the affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. Taking place in various cities with 500+ attendees each in a renowned, familiar and friendly atmosphere. May 5-6 2025, Düsseldorf, Germany

www.neonmoire.com/event/1464/beyond-tellerrand-dusseldorf-2025

Full-Day Workshop: Designing For Complex UI’s In 2025

Workshop with Vitaly Friedman, the UX lead with the European Parliament and Smashing Magazine, you’ll learn how to deal with real-life UX challenges from the ground up. Düsseldorf, Germany

www.neonmoire.com/event/1467/full-day-workshop-designing-for-complex-uis-in-2025

🎤 Speaking Opportunities for 2025

  1. Speak at Figma’s Config in San Francisco or London.
    Deadline for submissions: December 13, 2024

  2. Speak at The Design Conference in Brisbane.
    Deadline for submissions: December 31, 2024

  3. Speak at Design Matters, Copenhagen, Deadline for submissions: December 31, 2024

📰 News

  • OFFF has unveiled its ‘Centre OFFF Gravity’ branding and visual identity to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The festival's new branding is created by COLLINS.

  • Fontstand announces its fifth typography conference in The Hague! Join world-class type designers and typographers from around the world for a packed two-day programme of presentations and discussions.

  • Graphika Manila has announced its 20th anniversary event in 2025. Mark your calendars for 1 and 2 March.

  • Nathalie Crease, Head of Marketing at Fiasco Design, wrote an article about Mothers in Design. Why are there not more mothers in design? What are the barriers that mothers face and how can we as an industry change this?

Join the Variable Font Course

Arthur Reinders Folmer from Typearture teaches you in 11 lessons how to create a working variable color font and implement it in a website.

www.variablefontcourse.com

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See you in 2025! Happy holidays.

Waving from Delft,
Thomas ✌️

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