#327: Design Conferences and Festivals

Your weekly guide to design events. Week 5, Monday 3 to Monday 10 Februari 2025

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Thomas Dahm
February 03, 2025

📅 This Week

4 February 2025 / London
Nicer Tuesdays: February feature insps ring talks from Ashley Govers and Jurjen Versteeg of independent design studio From Form, who’ll be giving us a behind the scenes on how they created, not just a campaign, but an entire multiverse for Amsterdam’s latest Museum Night. Then, we’ll venture inside London-based artist and musician Cato’s world of paint and photo-collage, exploring art history, belonging, and Black culture. Finally, Will Becher, from the award-winning animation studio Aardman, will be sitting down with It’s Nice That’s associate editor Liz Gorny for a Q&A going behind the scenes of the most recent installment in the Wallace & Gromit franchise, Vengeance Most Fowl, while also digging into just how they created the characters that have charmed us all for so many years.

5-9 February 2025 / Breda
Blind Walls Film Fest displays the social impact of murals and debunks prevailing prejudices by showing unique and international films and facilitating Q&As with directors and artists. This year there will be several European and Dutch premieres. You can also attend masterclasses about murals and their impact.

6 February to 28 March 2025 / Breda
Best Dutch Design Books 2023 at Garage. Opening with talk by Kristof Titeca about his book Nasser Road / Political Posters in Uganda. Talk 16.30 - 17.30 uur

Nasser Road – Political Posters in Uganda:

Anything can be produced and sold along Nasser Road in Kampala, from university degrees to fake identity cards. But one of its main products is posters portraying heads of state and dictators as superpowered fighters – highly charged geopolitical depictions of the struggle against Western imperialism, in which international villains are celebrated as anti-heroes. The United States, Russia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea, China, and various African nations are all players in a glorified military-industrial complex. Collector Kristof Titeca presents a selection of posters, with contextual images by Ugandan photographers and an essay by activist Yusuf Serunkuma.

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AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI

The AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI is a playful, three-day event that invites everyone—artists, designers, researchers, the people of Amsterdam and those passing by—to explore alternative ways of thinking about AI. May 1 - 3, Amsterdam

www.neonmoire.com/event/1480/aixdesign-festival-on-slow-ai

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🎤 Open Calls and Speaking Opportunities for 2025

  1. Urban Art Festival BUMP in Calgary, Canada is looking for mural artist. Deadline: January 31, 2025

  2. OPEN CALL: Huiput Creative Festival Side Programme 2025.
    Deadline 27 February 2025

  3. Kuala Lumpur Illustration Fair 2025 is looking for talented illustrators, artists, and creators to be a part of this incredible journey!
    Deadline: 28 February 2025

  4. EXTENDED: Nominating yourself and take the stage of The Design Conference in Brisbane.
    Deadline February 28, 2025

  5. Host a workshop or give a keynote at Hatch Conference in Berlin.
    Deadline: March 9th

  6. World Design Congress is now accepting submissions for extended abstracts and posters in line with the Design for Planet theme. Under the over-arching theme of ‘Design for Planet’, abstracts on the following three sub-themes will be called: Shifting Paradigms — From Extractive to Regenerative Design; Economy and Design — Innovating for Circular Economies and Policy and Design — Shaping a Global Response.
    Deadline: 31 May 2025 at 23:59EDT.

  7. OPEN CALL: JICAF 2025 If you are: Illustrators, Animators, Toy Designers, Animators and other Visual Arts practioners, we welcome you to submit your works for this year’s JICAF curatorial! Deadline: February 16 at 23:59 GMT+7 (Jakarta/Bangkok).

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News

  • Kickstart campaign by AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI to livestream the event around the world.

  • Call for the Artphy AI Ecologies flash residency On the weekend of April 4 - 6, 2025, Artphy is hosting a hands-on making weekend in the context of the exhibition AI Ecologies.Deadline is on February 24th.

  • Episode 4 of the inventory.ing is out now on Spotify and is a conversation with Kristoffer Tjalve, a curator and strategist living in Greece. Kristoffer publishes Naive Weekly a newsletter cataloguing the goings on within the poetic, quieter parts of the internet.

  • DIYR Celebrates the spirit of independence, creativity, and resourcefulness. Checkout their new speaker designs, and build it yourself.

  • Founder of Shopify, Tobi Lütke, on first principals at Lenny’s podcast.

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