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#339: Upcoming Design Conferences and Festivals

#339: Upcoming Design Conferences and Festivals

Your weekly guide to design events. Week17, Monday 28 April 2025

Thomas Dahm
April 28, 2025

📅 Events This Week

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.

1-3 May, Berlin, Germany
The 21st Pictoplasma Conference presents artist lectures by 25+ innovative illustrators, filmmakers and designers creating the characters of tomorrow. Panels, networking events and conversations connect attendees, industry reps, provocative thinkers, established artists and new talents. Workshops invite the international attendees to get hands on and unleash creative energy. And animation screenings present 60+ animated shorts in four programmes.

1-3 May, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI is a playful, three-day event that invites everyone—artists, designers, researchers, the people of Amsterdam and those passing by—to explore alternative ways of thinking about AI.

4 May, New York City, USA
Magculture Live NYC : The return to print is celebration of the creative culture of magazines. The line-up includes: Steff Yotka (i-D), Jeppe Ugelvig (Viscose Journal), Lindsay Peoples (The Cut), Maria Dimitrova (AFM magazine), Richard Turley (Interview, etc.), Nicolas Kemper & Samuel Medina (New York Review of Architecture), Daniele Rodriguez (Superstars Only).

5-6 May, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership Ateliers Barcelona is 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.

5-6 May, Düsseldorf, Germany
beyond tellerrand is the affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. Taking place in various cities with 500+ attendees each in a renowned, familiar and friendly atmosphere.

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2025 Upcoming Design Summer Schools

We've put together our list of the best design summer schools around the world. We've got options from New York City to Porto and Breda. We've been looking into new summer schools, and we've found some great ones.

D CRIT Summer Intense
June 2-25, 2025. New York City, USA
TypeParis
June 3 to 11 July, 2025. Paris France
Porto Design Summer School
July 14-16, 2025. Porto, Portugal
Typography Summer School London
July 14-18, 2025. London, UK
Typographic Printing Program 2025
Session I: Sunday 29 June to Saturday 12 July 2025.
Session II: Sunday 27 July to Saturday 9 August 2025
Typography Summer School New York City
August 11-15, 2025. New York City, USA
Graphic Matters Summer School
August 19-21. Breda, Netherlands

🌺 May Timeline of Design Events

30 April + 1-2 May - Future Days / Lisbon
1 - 4 May - Pictoplasma Conference / Berlin
1 - 3 May - AIxDESIGN Festival / Amsterdam
4 May - magCulture Live NYC25 / New York City
5 - 6 May - Leadership Ateliers Barcelona / Barcelona
5 - 6 May - beyond tellerrand / Dusseldorf
7 May – Full-Day Workshop: Designing For Complex UIs / Dusseldorf
8 - 10 May – OFFF Barcelona / Barcelona
8 - 10 May – DIVE'25 | Bundeskongress Design / Munich
10 May - DDX’25 / Munich
14 - 16 May – All Flows / Milton Keynes
15 - 17 May – F5 Empath / New York City
16 May - Leadership training: Unlock the power of Design in your organisation / Munich
21 - 22 May - Leadership Ateliers Berlin / Berlin

🚨 New on Neon Moiré

Productized Conference 2025

The Productized Conference 2025, 10th anniversary, is a leading international event focused on product management, product design, and innovation. Taking place in Lisbon, Portugal from October 16–17, 2025, the conference brings together global experts and professionals to explore the latest strategies, trends, and best practices in product development, UX, agile methodologies, and design.

www.neonmoire.com/event/1510/productized-conference-2025

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🎤 Open Calls and Speaking Opportunities for 2025

LAST WEEK: 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.
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.