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#345: Upcoming Design Conferences and Festivals

Your weekly guide to design events. Week 24, Monday 9 June 2025

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Thomas Dahm
June 09, 2025

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📅 Events This Week

9-13 June, San Fransisco and live stream
WWDC25 Apple’s week of technology and creativity. On invitation in SF all is streamed online and free to attend.

Sebastiaan de With designer and maker of the Halide + Kino camera app’s for IOS made made a little guide of his favorite Bay Area places (mostly SF) for all you WWDC attendees. tinyurl.com/sdwguide Save for later reverse.

9 June, London, UK+ Online
Mastering Design Leadership a full-day of masterclasses on how to sell your designs, stop endless revisions and lead teams with top experts in UX and strategy.

10-12 June, Oslo, NR
Three-day Certified UX + AI workshop, from UX research and user testing to prototyping responsive UI in Figma and using AI for designing mobile apps, large-screen kiosks and websites.

11 June, Amsterdam, NL
In this edition of Letterspace, Vasilis van Gemert is the guest. He has spent a long time exploring the boundaries of time through physical and virtual clocks. He will present a variety of approaches to representing time.

12-13 June, Birmingham, UK
Launched in 2017, the BDF Conference 2025 is back with a new edition of the BDF Conference. Celebrating 'Play' this year. The BDF Conference is a condensed version of the festival - which will return in 2026 - that's just as fun and accessible. Expect to see many familiar faces and exceptional design talent at this year's edition in June.

14 June, New York City, USA
The New York edition of Motion Plus Design takes place on Saturday, June 14, 2025, at the Roulette Theatre in Brooklyn. It is a one-day event that brings together some of the most influential and internationally acclaimed motion designers and artists. The lineup includes notable figures such as Andrew Kramer, Felix Soletic, Joyce N. Ho, Cao Yuxi, EJ Hassenfratz, and Rosie Garschina, who represent a broad range of motion design disciplines—from cinematic visual effects and 3D animation to generative art and editorial design.

🎤 Open Calls and Speaking Opportunities for 2025

  1. Last Day! 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

  2. Last Days! 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

  3. Last Days! 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

  4. Exhibit your work at Forward Festival in Berlin or Vienna, or both. The Call is open until June 25th, 2025.

  5. Do you have an idea for a talk, workshop, exhibition, for Design Matters Tokyo 25? Submit your proposal before June 30, 2025

  6. Frontmania Conference 2025 is looking for frontend technology experts preferably with experience giving live talks. Deadline August 22 2025. Speaker fee is free entrance.

🌈 June Design Conference, Festivals & Masterclasses

New & News

  • CleverºFranke is european design agency of the year.

  • Marjolein Delhaas has a Samples & Perfectly Imperfect Items Sale of her journals and dairies.

  • Camp Mograph returns to a camper favorite, Virginia Beach, September 11–15, 2025, for another unforgettable retreat filled with creativity, community, and inspiration.

  • This November 27-92, OFFF Sevilla brings together visionary creatives like graphic design legend David Carson, Sweden’s bold SNASK agency, Brooklyn’s innovative Volvox Labs, Barcelona’s artisanal Lo Siento, Málaga’s charismatic Arillatype, and Lucía Types from Cháchara, who will inspire with colorful empowerment and joy. Don’t miss this incredible creative gathering!

  • From 25 to 4 December, the city of Breda will once again immerse itself in the world of game art and development, game publishing, eSports and serious gaming during Game Week.

🎛️ Filter Upcoming Conferences & Festivals

Submit your upcoming design event.
Submit a call for speakers

📚 Resources

How to become a speaker at a design conference

www.neonmoire.com/announcement/how-to-become-a-speaker-at-a-design-conference

Design Summer Schools

www.neonmoire.com/announcement/design-summer-schools

Typography Conferences and Meetups to attend all year round.

www.neonmoire.com/announcement/typography-conferences-and-meetups-to-attend-all-year-round

Animation and Motion Design Conferences to attend

www.neonmoire.com/announcement/animation-and-motion-design-conferences-to-attend

AI Design Events & Workshops

www.neonmoire.com/announcement/ai-design-events-and-workshops

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👋 See you next week

Waving from Delft,
Thomas ✌️

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