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#340: Upcoming Design Conferences and Festivals

#340: Upcoming Design Conferences and Festivals

Your weekly guide to design events. Week19, Monday 5 May 2025

Thomas Dahm
May 05, 2025

📅 Events This Week

5-6 May, Barcelona, Spain
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.

5-6 May, Düsseldorf, Germany
Full-Day Workshop: Designing For Complex UIs In 2025. In this workshop with Vitaly Friedman, the UX lead with the European Parliament and Smashing Magazine, you’ll learn how to deal with real-life UX challenges from the ground up.

25 YEAR OF OFFF
8-10 May, Barcelona, Spain
Design festival OFFF Barcelona returns following its debut event in 2001, running across three days in April at Disseny Hub Barcelona. The festival presents workshops, masterclasses, keynotes, installations, performances and awards, exploring sound, graphic, web and user experience design, as well as photography, illustration and film.

Are you attending OFFF and want to discover other cultural happenings in Barcelona, follow curated.agenda on Instagram. Elena, OFFF’s head of communications share there weekly must-visit cultural plans.

8-10 May, Munich, Germany
DIVE'25 is the first Federal Design Congress. This is where design meets politics, business and society. The aim is to make successful, effective design visible and tangible.

10 May, Munich, Germany
DDX '25. Get inspired about the future of innovation, product and design: Learn to facilitate and design business visions that accelerate innovation.

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📌 Upcoming events May

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
24-25 May - The Art Department / Berlin
31 May - Now 25 / Paris

🚨 New on Neon Moiré

Inscript Experimental Type & Tech Festival

Inclusive, diverse, bold, and favored by technologists and creatives alike, the Inscript Collective returns with its 3rd experimental type festival. With more than 30 speakers and moderators, the five-day virtual-only and accessible-to-all gathering takes place October 15-19, 2025.

www.neonmoire.com/event/1512/inscript-experimental-type-tech-festival

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🎟️ Early Birds Tickets until 7 May

Strategic Storytelling for Product & Design workshop

Join the Strategic Storytelling for Product & Design workshop in Berlin or Munich and learn practical tools to create irresistible stories for your design proposals, research share-outs, and product pitches.

neonmoire.beehiiv.com/p/strategic-storytelling-for-product-design-workshop

🎤 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.
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. Deadline: June 11, 2025
Do you have a bold creative idea that deserves the spotlight? Then this is your moment. Apply to become a speaker at Forward Festival Berlin (28–29 August) and Vienna (2–3 October) and share your vision with an international community of forward-thinkers. Deadline: June 11, 2025
Exhibit your work at Forward Festival in Berlin or Vienna, or both. The Call is open until June 25th, 2025.
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.