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#344: Upcoming Design Conferences and Festivals

#344: Upcoming Design Conferences and Festivals

Your weekly guide to design events. Week 23, Monday 2 June 2025

Thomas Dahm
June 02, 2025

👋 Welcome to your June design events update!
📺 Steam The Design Conference, 18-20 June
📅 Events This Week
🔡 Typo Events this month
🌈 June Design Conference, Festivals & Masterclass …
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📚 Resources
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👋 Welcome to your June design events update!

June is bursting with creative energy, and we’re here to ensure you don't miss out on any of it. From world-class conferences to inspiring workshops and open calls for bold new voices, this month is packed with opportunities to connect, learn and showcase your work.

The spotlight is on The Design Conference (18–20 June), where industry legends such as Andrew Hoyne, Daniel Ting Chong, Justin Colt, Jose Fresneda and Garrett DeRossett will reveal the secrets behind their most significant creative breakthroughs. Remember, you can stream the event and save 10% with code NEON10!

But that’s just the beginning. Whether you’re attending the inaugural SXSW in London, honing your skills at CreativePro Week, delving into typography in Amsterdam, or examining the impact of design on climate and society, there’s something for every creative mind.

Scroll down for this week's top events, open calls for speakers and exhibitors, and curated resources to fuel your next big idea. Wherever you are on your creative journey, we’re excited to help you make this month unforgettable.

See you at an event (or three)!
Thomas ✌️

📺 Steam The Design Conference, 18-20 June

World-Class Creatives. Unfiltered Insight.

The best in the industry take the stage—not just to inspire but to share the sacred knowledge that underpinned their most significant breakthroughs. Experience the voices that are shaping the future of creativity.

Including Andrew Hoyne, Daniel Ting Chong, Justin Colt, Jose Fresneda and Garrett DeRossett.

Use NEON10 code for 10% off.

📅 Events This Week

2-7 June, London, UK
First edition of SXSW London who builds on a peerless legacy created over almost four decades in Austin, Texas, where innovations in technology and science are presented and debated alongside some of the most challenging issues of our time - from AI to climate change, politics to society.

2-6 June, Phoenix, USA
CreativePro Week is the world’s best how-to conference for creative professionals who design, create, or edit in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and PowerPoint.

3 June, Paris
CreativePro Week is the world’s best how-to conference for creative professionals who design, create, or edit in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and PowerPoint.

3 June, Amsterdam
The Wim Crouwel Institute is hosting "It's All Graphic #13: Other Typographies: Reshaping Language from Distinct Perspectives", featuring Céline Hurka, Xiaoyuan Gao, Johanna Ehde and Elisabeth Rafstedt, and moderated by Elisabeth Klement and Kylie Sarino Bergh.

5-6 June, Amsterdam
CSS Day started out in 2013 as a single-day, laser-focused, advanced CSS conference, and they started intertwining design sessions a few years ago. Attendees and speakers are a mix of CSS designers, developers, spec writers and browser vendors, who take pride in what they know and do. A conference with an informal vibe and plenty of breaks, where each person can approach one another.

5-6 June, Ljubljana
European Design Festival will feature a diverse programme of events, bringing together designers from all over Europe for an inspiring exchange of ideas, experiences and creative perspectives.

5 June, Melbourne
First edition of Process Events 001 – Melbourne where freelancers, founders and teams share the processes they use.

6 June, Amsterdam
What Design Can Do brings together creatives, policymakers, and change-makers to explore how design can drive real impact. This year’s themes, Climate Futurism and Truth to Power, challenge us to rethink sustainability through regenerative design and harness storytelling, AI, and data for justice.

6 June, Bielefeld
The 15th edition of CXI Brand Identity Konferenz! CXI is a one-day corporate and brand identity event organized by Bielefeld School of Design. During the sessions questions like "What defines the effectiveness of a corporate identity project?", "What exactly is needed, from both client and agency?", and "how can such a complex process be implemented in a way that works?" will be addressed, next to showcasing re-designs for big brands.

6 June, Valencia
Paradís is a one-day conferences with design, inspiration and creativity as the main themes.

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🔡 Typo Events this month

📆 3 June / 8pm / Amsterdam
It's All Graphic #13: Other Typographies

📆 3 June / 7pm / London
From Print to Virtual: Czech Designers Pushing Boundaries. A showcase of contemporary graphic design from UK-based Czech designers.

📆 11 June / 7pm / Amsterdam
letterspace with Vasilis van Gemert

📆 12-13 June / All day / Birmingham
Birmingham Design Festival

📆 23 June to 2 July / All Day / New York City + Online
Typographics

📆 25-26 & 29 June / New York City
TypeLab Americas

📆 25-26 June / Online
TypeLab Europe

📆 27-28 June / Online
TypeLab Asia

🎤 Open Calls and Speaking Opportunities for 2025

Last Days! Submit your talk to UX Y’all on Chaos to Clarity: Designing for an Unpredictable. Deadline: 2 June
Open Call for Screen Exhibition at Digital Design Days Palermo, Italy – June 27–28. They’re looking for digital visions, AI-generated narratives, motion artworks, and experimental formats that explore the edge of creativity and technology. Selected artists will: be exhibited on screen at DDD 2025 and be featured on Prompt Magazine’s platforms. Deadline: June 9
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.