#330: Design Conferences and Festivals

Your weekly guide to design events. Week 8, Monday 24 February to Monday 3 March 2025

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Thomas Dahm
February 24, 2025

📅 This Week

26 February 2025 / Amsterdam
Letterspace #54 with Studio Schreefloos a small but fully equipped workspace for everyone that would like to get hands on the press or just take a look. This workshop was originally founded by Thomas Gravemaker, who taught them the craft and still drops by, whenever his expertise is needed

27 February 2025 / Bristol
The first Letter Luvvers of 2025. Gavin Strange going to tell you about his amazing work for Aardman, as well as his passion projects. Rian Hughes will take us through his prolific illustration career as well as the vast library of fonts he’s designed.

27 February 2025 / London
TypoCircle Presents: Dines – Creative Chaos. Dines is a celebrated Creative Director and Digital Artist from London who’s reshaping the future of art, design, and culture. His work merges the raw energy of London’s street culture with the electric vibes of Tokyo, crafting a visual language that’s both boundary-pushing and unmistakably fresh

3-4 March 2025 / London
Using Al in UX Design 2-day course at The School of UX. Learn how to use AI in UX Design in our 2-day hands-on course (no previous AI knowledge required). We'll demystify all the AI buzzwords for you and show real world examples of AI and UX products.

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CreativePro Week

CreativePro Week is the world's best how-to conference for creative professionals who design, create or edit in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat and PowerPoint. CreativePro Week takes place in Phoenix, AZ (and online!) from 2 to 6 June.

www.neonmoire.com/event/1488/creativepro-week

F5 Empath

F5 Empath will take place in New York City on 15, 16 and 17 May 2025. F5 is not just a conference - it's an experience designed to challenge your perspective, ignite your creativity and leave you transformed.

www.neonmoire.com/event/1493/f5-empath

PUSH UX 2025

Join almost 700 experienced UX & Design professionals, user-centric product people and creative technologists. Enjoy talks, breakouts, networking and workshops at the largest UX event in Central Europe. PUSH UX 2025 takes place 23-24 October 2025.

www.neonmoire.com/event/1494/push-ux-2025

Workshop: Design Patterns For AI Interfaces with Vitaly Friedman

April 10, 2025: Workshop: Design Patterns for AI Interfaces with Vitaly Friedman on 10 April in Munich. Go beyond conversational UIs and master innovative design patterns for truly valuable AI experiences. Learn how to use daemons, clustering, style lenses, structured presets and templates, dynamic editing, temperature knobs and more in your product.

www.neonmoire.com/event/1495/workshop-design-patterns-for-ai-interfaces-with-vitaly-friedman

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🎤 Open Calls and Speaking Opportunities for 2025

  1. LAST WEEK:
    OPEN CALL: Huiput Creative Festival Side Programme 2025.
    Deadline 27 February 2025

  2. LAST WEEK:
    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

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

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

  5. 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.

  6. 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:?

  7. Show your work on the façade of dissenyhub in Barcelona during OFFF. Are you a Motion designers, 3D artists, digital artists, illustrators, or animators – Grab the After Effects template and submit your proposal by Friday, March 23, 2025

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

News: The Perfect Ai Prompt

OpenAI’s President Greg Brockman just shared the best way to structure the perfect prompt.

The framework originally from Ben Hylak, is built on four key pillars:

  1. Goal – Define what you want clearly.

  2. Return Format – Specify exactly how you want the response structured.

  3. Warnings – Highlight any important details the AI should double-check.

  4. Context Dump – Provide background info to improve the response.

Explanation in this video.

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