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#328: Design Conferences and Festivals
Your weekly guide to design events. Week 5, Monday 10 to Monday 17 February 2025
Thomas Dahm
February 10, 2025
📅 This Week
13-16 February 2025 / Bangkok
BITS, The Brand Identity and Typography Symposium facilitates connections that foster collaboration and business opportunities while promoting diversity and inclusivity among designers, particularly those who work with non-Latin scripts.
13 February 2025 / New York City
TypeThursdayNYC's event has three x-heighting local speakers to showcase their Bold and ExtraBold typography work.
15-16 February 2025 / Dubai
DDX'25 Dubai The traveling conference about the future of digital innovation
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OPEN CALL: Huiput Creative Festival Side Programme 2025.
Deadline 27 February 2025Kuala Lumpur Illustration Fair 2025 is looking for talented illustrators, artists, and creators to be a part of this incredible journey!
Deadline: 28 February 2025EXTENDED: Nominating yourself and take the stage of The Design Conference in Brisbane.
Deadline February 28, 2025Host a workshop or give a keynote at Hatch Conference in Berlin.
Deadline: March 9thWorld 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.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).
Got big ideas on AI and creativity? Take the stage at Upscale Conf SF 2025. Happening MAY 20-21. Apply to be a speaker. Deadline:?
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News: Apple has just released a brand new events app.
Apple Invites is going to change the events industry. Why?
It's the first major events app released by one of the Big 4 tech companies (Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google) that is focused solely on events. From the press release we can see that it will allow you to create highly personalised event invitations (each guest will have their own visuals), share photo albums and even track navigation in real time. All powered by Apple Intelligence, their Al.
But. There is one significant gap. It doesn't allow for ticket processing - yet. I think a lot of the event players have a significant challenge ahead of them. If Apple adds payment integration to its offering, it could be a problem for some of the big names.
Apple has a proven track record of disrupting entire businesses - by adding just one feature. Who remembers Apple AirTag vs. Tile, or Apple Watch vs. Pebble?
The idea isn't new - events are now a well-known lead generation channel - it's about time most of the tech giants started building apps for events.
While this will raise the barrier to entry for most new event apps, it will also make the more mature event tech companies less vulnerable to disruption. And they can build more on their unique selling points.
What did you think of Apple's new release?
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