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#332: Design Conferences and Festivals

#332: Design Conferences and Festivals

Your weekly guide to design events. Week 8, Monday 10 to Monday 17 March 2025

Thomas Dahm
March 10, 2025

📅 This Week

to 15 March 2025 / Austin
Founded in Austin in 1987, SXSW Festivals is best known for its conference and festivals that celebrate the convergence of technology, film, music, education and culture. The festival is dedicated to helping creative people achieve their goals.

Weeks when decades happen
Amy Webb of the Future Today Institute presented the 18th edition of its Tech Trends Report at SXSW last Saturday. Its a deep dive into all the tech trends you'll need to follow in 2025. In this mind-bending session, futurist Amy Webb, provides a data-driven analysis for the emerging tech trends that need to be on your radar this year––and she’ll show you scenarios that will change your perspective on the futures.

11 March 2025, 6:30pm / Amsterdam
Shhh Talk 005 | Creating for a Sustainable Future, insightful talk on the environmental side of sustainability, featuring experts from both design and business fields.

12-16 March 2025 / Mérida - First edition!
Paradiso in fabulous Mérida, Mexico! This unique creative event features intimate sessions with artists like Karin Fong, Oliver Jeﬀers, Debbie Millman, Gmunk, Pentagram, Jessica Walsh, and many others. March 12-16, 2025

12-14 March 2025 / Online
The 5th annual Presentation Design Conference - the essential how-to event for designers who need to who want to create compelling slide decks, interactive experiences and high-impact presentations.

13 March 2025 / New York
Digital Connections~Designing for Online Interaction. A behind-the-scenes look at designing for digital matchmaking with OKCupid’s Product Design Director

13-14 March 2025 / Prague - 10th edition!
Mouvo, the platform focused on the intersection of graphic design, film, animation and technology. MOUVO 10 will take place on 13 and 14 March 2025.

14-15 March 2025 / The Hague - 5th edition!
The Fontstand International Typography Conference is a two-day, unsponsored event by designers for designers, featuring world-class type experts, inspiring presentations and meaningful networking in a friendly, authentic atmosphere, taking place in The Hague on 14-15 March 2025.

15-16 March 2025 / Rotterdam - First Edition!
The Rotterdam Illustration Festival: here to gatebreak the illustration world with real talk and honest insights. Step out of your studio life and join us for fun, community-building activities, engaging and useful workshops, eye-opening talks, a buzzing market full of publishers ready to connect, and plenty of opportunities for being inspired. It’s all about sharing truths, creating opportunities, and building a stronger illustration community.

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🌱 March events

20-21 March 2025 / Eindhoven
The Art Department 2025 is a Fest and conference focussing on the design process and craftsmanship in film, animation and games. In 2025 The Art Department will return to industrial venue Klokgebouw with a program packed with artist talks, demos, screenings, live sketching sessions, portfolio reviews, recruitment and so much more! A playground for the creative industry.

21-30 March 2025 / Amsterdam, Utrecht, Online
Kaboom Animation Festival will take place in Amsterdam, Utrecht and online. This year's line-up offers an exceptional collection of films, carefully selected for their compelling and inspiring stories. With no less than 165 films and VR works will compete on the cinematic battlefield. With nine categories to explore, there is something for everyone. Prepare yourself for a stunning - but healthy - overload of short films and VR works for young, old and everyone in between.

27-28 March 2025 / Dallas
In-house In-focus In-person is a two-day conference highlighting the array of experiences possible at design, communication, and brand in-house teams from around the world and their impact on their organization’s goals.

🚨 New on Neon Moiré

beyond tellerrand – Berlin 2025

beyond tellerrand is the festival where creativity and technology meet. 2 days of great talks and 500 other fantastic people in the house. beyond tellerrand Berlin takes place on 6 and 7 November 2025.

www.neonmoire.com/event/1496/beyond-tellerrand-berlin-2025

The Design + Marketing Summit 2025

The Design + Marketing Summit 2025. Master design and production techniques for social media, email, print, and beyond. July 28–30, 2025

www.neonmoire.com/event/1489/the-design-marketing-summit-2025

Submit your upcoming design event.
Submit a call for speakers

🎤 Open Calls and Speaking Opportunities for 2025

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.
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:?
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
Submit your idea for a talk or breakout session and become part of the PUSH UX program. Deadline: The sooner you send yours, the sooner the board of curators can consider your proposal.
NEW! Blind Walls Talent Call, offers 5 creators the chance to create a mural at Ploegendienst Festival – and to have a solo exhibition at the Blind Walls Gallery Gallery. Under the guidance of a coach from within the field, the selected creators will develop their practice and be invited to various educational sessions. Submit your portfolio until April 25th, 5:00 PM.
Be part of the AIxDESIGN Festival in Amsterdam May 1-3, 2025. There are multiple open calls. From hosting a session to help out with the organization and registration of the festival.

Learn how to become a speaker at a design conference in guide.

Thank you, Frankie!

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Frankie Ratford, founder of The Design Kids, a community to help you develop your design career, announced last week that she is handing over The Design Kids to Dimitri and Karinadea from Tank, an Australian agency.

I recently spoke to Dimitri about the future of The Design Kids and it looks bright and promising. Subscribe to their newsletter

Thank you Frankie for bringing the global community together and meeting in Rotterdam where we found out we had the same mentor at the time.

For those of you interested in travelling, Frankie has started the Designer's Bootcamp, which hosts design focused holidays to help you take your career to the next level. There are some fun trips mentioned on the site: like travelling with 9 strangers to Birmingham for BDF or Antwerp for Us by Night, have a look.

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