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#338: Upcoming Design Conferences and Festivals

#338: Upcoming Design Conferences and Festivals

Your weekly guide to design events. Week16, Monday 21 to 28 April 2025

Thomas Dahm
April 21, 2025

📅 Events This Week

22-24 April, Zürich, Switzerland
Certified UX + AI 3-day workshop in Zürich. From UX research and user testing, to prototyping responsive UI in Figma and using AI in design for creating mobile apps, large-screen kiosks and websites. Run by an experienced designer from London 🇬🇧 with over 20 years of UX design at companies like Microsoft, Heathrow and fintech.

22-26 April, Copenhagen, Denmark
ATypI returns to Copenhagen, after 24 years! Get ready for a typographic experience rooted in Danish style, innovation, culture, and happiness. The ATypI 2025 conference venue is the Royal Danish Academy located by the harbor and the famous Refshaleøen.

24 April, London, UK
TypoCircle Presents: Type – An Ever-Changing Field. A masterclass talk, led by the fantastic Dalton Maag Creative Director, Eleni Beveratou. She will cover new technologies, variable type and some exciting projects aimed at both pros and those studying design and type respectively.

23-24 April, Lisbon, Portugal
Leadership Ateliers Lisbon by Hatch Conference
Enroll in a 2-Day Training with Elite Design Mentors in inspiring venues and Smoothly Navigate Your Journey from IC to Design Leader with others like you.

24-25 April, Austin, USA
Crop Creative Conference are two unforgettable days of creative inspiration. For those looking to get started early, Crop 2025 will kick off with our workshop day on Thursday, April 24th, where you can register for à la carte workshops (coming soon) and learn from top-notch pros to elevate your skills. The general admission day is Friday, April 25th, and features a stacked lineup of inspiring keynotes from creatives of multiple disciplines and a marketplace of rad vendors.

28-29 April, Austin, USA
FITC Toronto is FITC flagship event spanning two full days with two tracks of presentations and round table discussions to choose from, as well as a coffee lounge. With an evening event on the Monday. Speakers include Jessica Hische, Tom Emrich and many more.

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🌺 April Timeline of Design Events

28-29 April - FITC Toronto 2025 / Toronto
30 April + 1-2 May - Future Days / Lisbon

🚨 New on Neon Moiré

DIVE'25 | Bundeskongress Design

DIVE'25 | Bundeskongress Design is the first Federal Design Congress in Germany. This is where design meets politics, business and society. May 8-10 in München.

www.neonmoire.com/event/1509/dive-25-bundeskongress-design

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✨ News

Our AI Design Events & Workshops 2025 is updated, again, with new announced conferences. Check it out!
Graphic Matters announced their summer school in August with Gemma O'Brien as one of the teachers.
Semi Permanent Festival & Nourish announced their first-ever festival in Japan. With Semi Permanent Festival (November 1-3) and Nourish「 Osaka 」(November 4-5).

🎤 Open Calls and Speaking Opportunities for 2025

LAST WEEK: TypeCon is looking for: Main Program Presentations, Type & Education Forum Presentations, and Hands-on Workshops. Submission Deadline: Friday, April 25, 2025.
LAST WEEK: 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.
ENDING SOON: HeyHuman! art residency is accepting applications for our Spring 2025 edition. Whether you’re an artist, researcher, mad scientist, magician, or anything in between - as long as you’re working on your own project at the intersection of data, art, and people - you’re welcome to apply before April 30, 2025.
ENDING SOON: 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.
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.
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.
Do you have an idea for a talk, workshop, exhibition, for Design Matters Tokyo 25? Submit your proposal before June 30, 2025
Frontmania Conference 2025 is looking for frontend technology experts preferably with experience giving live talks. Deadline August 22 2025. Speaker fee is free entrance.