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#333: Design Conferences and Festivals

#333: Design Conferences and Festivals

Your weekly guide to design events. Week 8, Monday 17 to Monday 24 March 2025

Thomas Dahm
March 17, 2025

📅 This Week — Film & Animation take the spotlight

17-23 March 2025 / Eindhoven
Playgrounds International Film Festival at Eindhoven’s inspiring Natlab Film Theater, the art of filmmaking takes center stage! Enjoy a blend of independent (and Oscar-nominated) shorts, Hollywood blockbusters, and bold new voices. Enhance your skills in our masterclasses and dive into emerging talent at our Student Film Competition and Animation Pitch. And with a film course, a dedicated children’s program and an expo there’s something for every film lover.

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.

22-23 March 2025 / Tokyo
Since its creation in 2014, anime fans and professionals alike have gathered at Tokyo Big Sight for the annual AnimeJapan to share the latest trends and releases from the Japanese animation industry. Spread over eight large halls, the convention caters to everyone — from fans eager to buy merchandise, to cosplayers, or even music lovers. The Family AnimeFesta area welcomes children so they can also enjoy the event with their family.

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🌱 March events

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

BDF Conference 2025

BDF Conference 2025 is a celebration of the local, national and international design industry in Birmingham on 12 and 13 June 2025 at Birmingham Town Hall.

www.neonmoire.com/event/1498/bdf-conference-2025

SEEN Around the World-Symposium

The ‘SEEN-Around the World-Symposium’ celebrates the typographic work of women* and non-binary people as part of a three-day event that will travel once around the globe. SEEN-Around the World-Symposium’ will take place in a hybrid format from April 9 to 11, 2025: The venue is the LUX in the city center of Mainz

www.neonmoire.com/event/1497/seen-around-the-world-symposium

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🎤 Open Calls and Speaking Opportunities for 2025

Last Week: 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
NEW! Submit your Design Dialogue, Panel Discussion, Presentation, Workshop, or another format to AIGA Design Conference in Los Angels. Deadline: March 31, 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:?
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.
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.
NEW! Do you have an idea for a talk, workshop, exhibition, for Design Matters Tokyo 25? Submit your proposal before June 30, 2025

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

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