Neon Monday #204

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 204.

In the past week, seven upcoming conferences and festivals are added to our design event calendar.

  • At STRP Festival you’ll meet artists, thinkers, and performers exploring 'The end of infinity'. Various locations in the center of Eindhoven will be dedicated to visual art, technological perspectives, experimental dialogues, and musical performances. April 7-10, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  • Gather: Off the Page is an evening of inspiring talks about magazines and a celebration of the new BD Magazine about the West Mids creative community. Speakers include Holly Hollister (Bab Mag & Selextorhood) John Joseph Holt (LAW Magazine) Ella Paradis (The Black Explorer) and Andrew Diprose (The Ride & WIRED). April 21, Birmingham, UK

  • Five Talks Type is the new event about typography, branding, and graphic design. June 2, Arnhem, The Netherlands

  • aXbt – For the Joy of Work is a packed beyond tellerrand day in Hamburg with exciting talks all circling around happiness, joy, and passion. May 19, Hamburg, Germany

  • Full-Day Workshop: Designing for Emotion Masterclass. Get a fresh perspective on designing human experiences filled with emotions—good, bad, and all that’s between—in this workshop with Aarron Walter, author of the best-selling book Designing for Emotion now in its second edition. May 4, Düsseldorf, Germany

  • COME ALIVE, is an Art exhibition that shares love without a reason. The exhibition/festival offers 45 artists the space to share how their personal experiences and life choices let love without reason and the life force flow, collectively. June 3 - 31 July, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  • Birmingham Design Festival returns for 2022. Celebrating the theme of ‘freedom’, the Festival includes three days of talks, workshops, and exhibitions spanning design, architecture, illustration, and more. June 9 - 11, Birmingham, UK

Are you organizing an event, workshop, exhibition, or summer school? Add your upcoming happening to our design event calendar for free.

This Week

to April 11th

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.

Follow my 36 Days of Type journey on TikTok. Started a brand new account 28 days ago. @studiodahm.

to April 9, 2022 / Mexico City

Over two weeks in Mexico City, SPACE10 will create a platform to gather diverse perspectives with talks, interactive experiences, and events surrounding the theme ‘Beyond Human-Centered Design’. They have brought together a stimulating line-up of thought leaders to share their work, and together, we invite you to reimagine the relationship between humans, technology, and our planet.

Mon 28 March through 15 April 2022 / Conference tickets £26-£64 / Workshops £72-£144 / Online

INTL is a two-day online global design conference and a program of various digital workshops. The line-up of speakers includes type designer Charlotte Rohde, designer Okocha Obasi, studio Other Means, artist Max Siedentopf, studio Team Thursday, designer Stephanie Specht (listen to Neon Moiré Show 23) and many more.

Font Fashion Week is a series of free online events organized by I Love Typography to celebrate the latest trends in international type design. Dates: April 4 through 8, 2022

April 5 through 26 / Free / Online

Learn how to structure your business, land your dream gigs, find work-life balance, and future-proof your finances.

  • Get Structured with Notion, April 5th @ 12 PM EST

  • Get Growth with Contra, April 12th @ 12 PM EST

  • Get Community with Groove, April 19th @ 1:30 PM EST

  • Get Prosperous with Lance, April 26th @ 12 PM EST

6 April, 2022 at 5:00 PM CEST

A transformative peer to peer coaching session by What Design Can Do and Designplatform Rotterdam

7 through 10 April / Eindhoven / tickets from €10

At STRP Festival you’ll meet artists, thinkers, and performers exploring 'The end of infinity'. Various locations in the center of Eindhoven will be dedicated to visual art, technological perspectives, experimental dialogues, and musical performances.

7 through 9 April / Columbus, GA / from $247

Creative South is a weekend of creative thinking, collaboration, and exploration — with plenty of south hospitality and fellowship!

7 through 24 April / Cardiff and Live Stream / from £15

Cardiff Animation Festival is a non-profit community organization run by a team of animation lovers and creators living in Cardiff. The festival showcase some of the best animation from all over the world. The program offers short films, feature films, masterclasses, workshops, filmmaker Q+As, industry events, panels, and networking events.

8 through 9 April / Prague & Live Stream / from CZK 900

Mouvo conference is an annual and world-class event where graphic design, film, animation and technology intersect. Boost your creativity with a full two days of diverting talks and four days of premium workshops. This year's theme is The Experience.

8 Apr at 11:00 GMT /. £5.44 / Online

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 Where Giants Roam

Watch Back

A—Z is an independent space in Berlin with the mission of expanding the territory of graphic design by rethinking its limits and challenging traditional perceptions. At the storefront space, located in the heart of the city, inspiring graphic designers are invited to unfold their artistic, conceptual or formally experimental projects. Presentations by Na Kim, Anja Lutz, Patrick Thomas and many more.

See you next week.

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