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#341: Upcoming Design Conferences and Festivals

#341: Upcoming Design Conferences and Festivals

Your weekly guide to design events. Week 20, Monday 12 May 2025

Thomas Dahm
May 12, 2025

📅 Events This Week
📌 Upcoming events May
🚨 New on Neon Moiré
📺 What is a story?
📺 Make things for each other!
🎤 Open Calls and Speaking Opportunities for 2025
🎛️ Filter Upcoming Conferences & Festivals
📚 Resources
💜 Support

📅 Events This Week

14-16 May, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
All Flows is an annual event in Milton Keynes (UK) that brings together global talent to spark ideas, foster conversations, and inspire fresh perspectives.

14 May, London, United Kingdom
Config Figma’s conference for people who build products. Jump into a lineup of inspiring sessions, workshops, and deep-dives. You’ll walk away with fresh ideas, actionable takeaways, and connections to fuel your next big idea.

14-15 May, Dubai, UAE
The World AI Technology Expo 2025 in Dubai is a premier event for AI professionals, innovators, and enthusiasts. It features a wide range of activities, including keynote speeches, panel discussions, workshops, networking sessions, and exhibitions.

15-17 May, New York City, USA
F5 Empath isn’t just a conference—It's an experience designed to challenge your perspective, ignite your creativity and leave you transformed!

15 May, Brno, Czech Republic
TYPO 2 is an annual conference on type and typography. The TYPO 2 programme, co-curated with type designer Petra Dočekalová, will show you how smart typography can make a difference. Speakers include Filip Blažek, Viktoriya Grabowska, Martin Tiefenthaler, Titus Nemeth, Vít Rýznar and many more.

16 May, Munich, Germany
Leadership training: Unlock the power of Design in your organisation. A hands-on workshop for experienced leaders in Design, Product, & Strategy roles seeking to maximise the value of Design in their organisations.

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📌 Upcoming events May

20 May - Huiput Creative Festival / Helsinki
21 - 22 May - Leadership Ateliers Berlin / Berlin
21 May to 19 October - Biennale internationale de design graphique of Chaumont / Chaumont
Opening Weekend: 23 to 25 May
24-25 May - The Art Department / Berlin
31 May - Now 25 / Paris

🚨 New on Neon Moiré

OFFF Barcelona 2026

The 26st edition of OFFF Barcelona takes place from 16 to 18 April 2026 at Disseny Hub Barcelona. OFFF Barcelona serves as a hub for innovation, collaboration and inspiration, balancing established icons with emerging voices in the creative world.

www.neonmoire.com/event/1513/offf-barcelona

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📺 What is a story?

Watch back this impressive keynote from Ebi Atawodi at Figma’s Config San Fransisco on storytelling as a PM to storytelling as a film director. What is a story? A story is how we make sense of change, through emotion, structure and meaning.

📺 Make things for each other!

Watch back Jony Ive at Stripe Sessions.
02:43 - Understanding design's history shapes our values and creative outputs.
07:47 - Corporate agendas have shifted focus from purpose to profit in design and innovation.
10:30 - Progress requires conviction and vision, not just inevitability.
15:55 - Jony Ive emphasizes the importance of simplicity and joy in design.
18:26 - Design must prioritize the user's evolving nature as a person.
23:09 - Jony Ive discusses balancing quality, speed, and cost in design.
25:26 - Jony Ive discusses the evolution of design principles and team dynamics.
30:41 - Creating an authentic team culture through personal connections.
32:48 - Team collaboration thrives through personal connections and informal settings.
37:50 - Choosing objects that embody care over mere beauty is essential in design.
40:10 - Personal integrity in design reflects our true selves, beyond superficial appearances.
44:39 - Jony Ive discusses his evolving design philosophy post-Apple.
47:06 - Discussing the dual effects of design on users and society.
52:20 - Jony Ive expresses concerns about unaddressed social media issues and emphasizes responsible design.
54:50 - Design influences civic responsibility and innovation in urban development.

🎤 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 talk to UX Y’all on Chaos to Clarity: Designing for an Unpredictable. Deadline: 2 June
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.