#348: August

The Form Future conference, which will take place in Berlin on 11–12 September 2025, is a new B2B design event with the theme "Transformation by Design". Taking place in the iconic International Congress Centre (ICC)

This September, Pictoplasma—Berlin’s world-leading character design conference—returns to New York for its 11th Pictoplasma NYC edition, bringing together a global community of artists, designers, illustrators, and storytellers.

Mini-MBA for Designers: Online + Community. Course is for: Senior designers, creative directors, and design leaders with experience who are ready to make a bigger impact at the executive level in their organisations. This course is specifically crafted for design professionals who want to speak business language and translate their creative work into measurable business results.

Design Design Teams and Secure Investment • Leadership training. Learn to secure design investment and build design teams strategically as your organisation matures, budgets tighten, and AI evolves traditional design roles and product innovation practices by employing a design-as-a-business approach used at brands like CapitalOne and KFC.

How do we measure the quality of UX? What metrics to use? How to bridge business objectives and UX goals? How to remove bias and guesswork from our design decisions? And how to measure and make a case for the impact of your UX work?

The 16th edition of CXI Brand talks! 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.