#326: Design Conferences and Festivals

to 2 February 2025 / Berlin
Berlin’s CTM Festival supports an open, networked, mutually-collaborative, global music culture through its yearly 10-day festival as well as countless collaborative and research initiatives, co-commissions, concerts, and other constantly-evolving formats. The 26th year-old festival stands out for its conscious pairing of daring artistic content and adventurous club experiences with an in-depth discourse programme, framing today’s sounds and music cultures within a shifting, hybrid global society.

29 and 30 January 2025 / Toronto
Design Leadership Summit is one of the leading conferences for design leaders. Their mission is to foster design leadership skills by bringing some of the world’s best design leaders together for sharing and learning.

29 January 2025 / New York City
Nicolas Heller~Inside the Making of NY Nico’s Guide to NYC. Join Nicolas Heller, Jason Diamond, Jeremy Cohen and Jessica Flores as they discuss what about NYC inspires them, what makes NYC the best city in the world and what it took to create the ultimate insiders guide to NYC.

30 January 2025 / Dublin
Design Leaders Conference is where creative professionals across all design disciplines come together to connect, share and celebrate the power of design. The theme for 2025 is ‘Creative Courage’ and will focus on leadership, resilience and innovation.

30 January 2025 / Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Cardiff, Leeds, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan and Vancouver.
DEMO Festival shows the world’s best motion design on outdoor screens in the public space. The full motion programme will be shown in the Netherlands, in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Tilburg, Eindhoven and Utrecht. A special selection will also be shown on XL and spectacular screens around the world

30 January 2025 / London
TypoCircle with lettering artist Seb Lester as he charts his life in letters, from student days to working for some of the biggest companies in the world to current art and design projects. The talk includes a section on designing a logo for a NASA space mission! Lester also describes how he became the first visual artist to be offered a one-year contract by Apple.

31 January to 2 February 2025 / Berlin
transmediale is the annual festival that brings together international artists, researchers, activists and thinkers with the aim of developing new perspectives on our technological age through the interweaving of different genres and curatorial approaches. In the course of its history, transmediale has grown from its beginnings as VideoFilmFest to become one of the most important events for art and digital culture worldwide.

📚 Resources

🔠 Typography Conferences and Meetups

🌀 Animation and Motion Design Conferences [UPDATED]

🎤 How to become a speaker at a design conference