Neon Monday #200 ⚡️⚡️⚡️

March 06, 2022

Your weekly email of upcoming design and creativity meet-ups, conferences, workshops, and exhibitions around the world! Find all upcoming events on neonmoire.com

Welcome to Issue 200.

Two hunderd newsletters! Thank you for reading, commenting and sharing.

The past week I worked on two websites. Finished and launched the website for Dutch hat designer Berry Rutjes and worked on the upcoming online Variable Font Course website. Both run on WordPress with Woocommerce because that is one of the most flexible solutions to have in the Netherlands when you want to receive payments using the popular payment method iDeal.

Berry Rutjes hosts annually around 15 live workshops. Host three online masterclasses and needed a calendar + ticket shop that integrated easily with Woocommerce. Because she wanted one place to sell her collection and workshop tickets. In the past, she used Eventbrite, Stager, and Eventix to sell tickets. But the integration between these ticket providers and WordPress isn't optimal. Plus it cost a lot of extra time, to learn and maintain multiple platforms.

After testing all popular event calendar plugins, we landed on the fairly new plugin Event Manager and Tickets Selling Plugin for WooCommerce. The clever way the developers integrated the ticket sales into the Woocommece product page is refreshing. It surprise me actually that no one came up with this solution before. The well-thought-through out-of-the-box calendar views and detail pages layouts are a delight in comprising with Events Calendar or Modern Events Calendar.

If you are planning to sell physical or digital products and tickets and have already a Wordpress site, I would recommend looking at the Event Manager plugin. It's a solid solution. When you want more information or need help with web development send me a message.

In the coming weeks, we'll launch the Variable Font Course site. Sign up to be the first to get notified.

It's Nice That published a selection of resources in support of the people of Ukraine. From places to donate and find key information, to creative responses and fundraisers.

This Week

Mon 7 to Thu 10 March / Online

MozFest is a unique hybrid: part art, tech and society convening, part maker festival, and the premiere gathering for activists in diverse global movements fighting for a more humane digital world.

Starts Mon 7 March

36 Days of Type is a project that invites designers, illustrators and graphic artists to express their particular interpretation of the letters and numbers of the Latin alphabet.

Tue, 8 March 2022, 6:30 pm - 7:50 pm (GMT) / Online / Free

Join the Paris-based photographer Cécilia Poupon for a session on raising your still life photography game. You’ll learn how Cécilia uses lighting and framing techniques to turn simple household objects into beautiful, otherworldly artworks. Then you’ll have a go at a still life composition of your own using iPhone.

Tue 8 March / Bridewell Hall 7-9.30pm / £8-£12,50

First in-person Type Tuesday since March 2020. With three special guests: reportage illustrator Lucinda Rogers; graphic designer Greg Bunbury; and poet, activist, and letterpress artist Dennis Gould. 

Wed, 9 Mar 2022 at 14:00 GMT / from £3.83

Rightaligned in conversation series is a collection of events that go behind–the–scenes with a wide–range of creative people including graduates, juniors, freelancers, and founders. This week with Applied Design

Wed, 9 March at 6:00 PM EST

Join for a virtual talk and hand lettering workshop with Erik Marinovich — lettering artist and founder of NuFormType.

Thu 9 March at 5pm CET / Online / Free

In his presentation, Anton Badashov, Head of Design at Ziina, will walk you through the project “Ziina Digital Wallet for MENA”, an award winner in the Product category in the 2021 UX Design Awards.

Thu 10 - Sat 12 March / Online / €65-€85

Forward Online Festival is a 2-day virtual event packed with more than 15 talks by the industry’s finest, inspiring workshops, and lots of opportunities to connect with other creative minds.

Thu 10 March, 19:00 – 22:00 (CEST) / Amsterdam, Online / €7,50

Kick-off of FIBER’s Reassemble Lab ‘Natural Intelligence’, this public programme will invite artists, technologists, researchers and policy makers to reflect upon the possibilities of a fossil-free internet based on ecological ethics and regenerative principles.

Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 7:00 PM / $40-$50

Industry Ethics Real Talk, a conversation that dives into sometimes sensitive topics. Specifically created for agency leaders and principals, please join us for an intimate and in-person dialogue around common ethical challenges we face, with industry expert and business consultant to creatives, Emily Cohen. Emily will discuss challenges and obstacles she’s seen agency leaders face in the industry and open the conversation with the group. 

Thu, 10 March 2022, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm (GMT), Online / Free

Join illustrator Nourie Flayhan to discover how she uses illustration to celebrate heritage and share stories beyond the mainstream. Bring a photo of a cherished family member for inspiration and craft a portrait using iPad and the Procreate app. 

Watch Back

Last week I forgot to mention Block by Block the conf by Notion, the popular all-in-one workspace. Which I use daily. This week they published all recorded talks. Next to all the advanced tips and tricks the conversation with This American Life host Ira Glass about the creative process, storytelling, and creativity is really interesting to hear.

See you next week.

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