Neon Monday #222 — This October

September 26, 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

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28 - 29 September, Copenhagen, Denmark / Online

Design Matters is a global community of digital creatives who love to explore and inspire each other to break new ground in digital design.

29 September - 2 October, San Fransico, USA / Online

Gray Area is a nonprofit organization that applies art and technology to create social and civic impact through education, incubation, and public events. The Gray Area Festival is their chance to bring together people from around the world to experience a jam-packed slice of our year-round programming at the Grand Theater.

29 - 30 September, Paris, France / Online

Nocode Summit brings together professionals who want to accelerate their business thanks to the Nocode revolution.

to 23 March 2023, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

RetroFuture is the world's first major exhibition about the future of the past. What was strange, awkward and artificial yesterday is familiar, or even natural today.

⚡️ Featured events

October 6 - 7, 2022, Vienna, Austria / Live stream

Forward Festival Vienna: Creative Exchange hosted by Stefan Sagmeister! Tune in via live stream and enjoy a firework of creativity live and on-demand.

  • Online ticket: €85

  • In-person: join the waiting list

26 - 27 October, Melbourne, Australia / Online

After a pandemic-induced hiatus, Melbourne’s award-winning NO/BS Conference makes its sophomore return, October 26 -27 at the Forum. The roadshow-style 2-day event is jam-packed with international and local talent across all walks of digital. It’s an unfiltered, honest, “digital reality check” to kickstart creative minds into action.

Upcoming Conferences & Festivals

October is the month when the design community descends to their favorite conference around the world. With most conferences returning as a personal experience is it the perfect opportunity to meet again, learn from each other and exchange your knowledge.

In addition to the in-person experience, events in most cases also offer a digital experience, so you can have a multi-layered conversation about the topics you care about the most.

We have selected 25+ UX and (digital) design events for you, on every continent, and for every budget.

29 September - 2 October, San Fransico, USA / Livestream

Gray Area is a nonprofit organization that applies art and technology to create social and civic impact through education, incubation, and public events.. The Gray Area Festival is their chance to bring together people from around the world to experience a jam-packed slice of our year-round programming at the Grand Theater. 2022 celebrates our 8th year of Gray Area Festival. 

17 September - 2 October, Turin, Italy

The visual design festival Graphic Days 2022 returns to Turin, Italy for its seventh edition, showcasing over 40 events across the city. The program includes exhibitions, workshops, talks, video projections, and performances across six main locations in the city. The festival incorporates three themes: Design For Kids, Design Like Kids, and Design With Kids.

3 - 4 October, Austin, USA

Brand New Conference is a two-day event on corporate and brand identity with some of today’s most active and influential practitioners from around the world. Austin.

5 - 9 October, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR) was established in 2000, and the foundation organized its festival the same year as the first architecture film festival in the world.

5 - 7 October, Budapest, Hungary

Amuse 2022 is an international conference in Budapest about UX design, user research, service design, creativity, product design, game & VR design, and more.

6 - 7 October, Stockholm, Sweden

Nordic.js is a single track conference with talks by internationally renowned speakers and rising stars in the JavaScript community. You’ll hear about fun experiments, learn about the latest in JavaScript, and connect with other passionate developers.

6 - 7 October, Vienna, Austria / Live stream

Forward Festival will return to Vienna on October 6th – 7th 2022 presenting nothing less than a firework of creativity. 2 days, more than 15 speakers, hands-on workshops and exciting side-events promise encounters of creativity!

6 October, The Netherlands

On Thursday the 6th of October, the world’s best motion design will be on show on almost all screens in the public space in the Netherlands.

6 - 8 October, Memphis, USA / Livestream

Creative Works Conference is a bunch of talks, workshops, vendors, and afterparties that encourage inspiration, connection, and growth among creative professionals. Beyond that, it can also be a confidence booster, a skill builder, a network expander, and a career changer. Truly, the conference is what you make it.

7 October, Faro, Portugal

designFAO is a conference that brings together Creative People. It is a one-day event that provides inspiration, education, growth, and skills development through deep-dive talks.

7 - 9 October, Prishtina, Kosovo

REDO, the annual International graphic design and visual arts event in Prishtina, Kosovo. REDO is a three-day event in motion that brings together designers from around the world to create a discourse around the current issues within the practice of graphic design. Through a series of talks, music events, books, and tours of the city, REDO provides an opportunity for designers to get together in and around the city of Prishtina.

7 - 9 October, San Diego, USA

TwitchCon San Diego takes place on October 7-9, 2022 at the San Diego Convention Center. TwitchCon is the IRL party starring the entire Twitch community and everything they are into. Join tons of fans for a weekend of games, meet and greets, Twitch Rivals, and more. It’s going to be a wild time.

8. – 16. October, Lucerne, Switserland

Annual international poster festival, with an exhibition, symposium and multiple smaller side events.

10–13 October, 2022. New World Stages, New York, USA

SmashingConf is coming back to New York, after a few years of Covid-related—absence! We are doing another — 2-day single-track — web design and development conference, with topics like Product Design, Front-end, and Accessibility. There are also two days of hands-on and practical workshops, where you can learn practical new skills, or choose to follow the conference online.

10 October, Vienna, Austria

George UX Conf is an exceptional UX design event with visionary experts, creative peers, and international top speakers. Connect, exchange ideas, and gain insights into user experience, design processes, and the future of money. Vienna waits for you. George welcomes you.

10 – 12 October, Denver, USA

An Event Apart is the premier web design conference for UX and front-end experts. Each event is a mix of education, inspiration, practical takeaways, and deep insight into the future, presented by industry shakers and shapers. Join peers who are as passionate about new ideas and best practices as you are. To design a better experience, attend a better-designed UX conference.

12 - 16 October, Online

Inscript is an inaugural experimental type festival taking place online. Inscript explores the overlap of typography and experimental tech, including but not limited to artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, creative coding, physical computing and innovative use of traditional craft.

13 - 14 October, Mexico City, Mexico

OFFF Mexico is an international festival that welcomes innovative local and international talent to share their experiences in the fields of creativity, digital culture and innovation.

13 October, London, UK

Interact London is a design conference where the best minds from UX, design, Ai, data and more share their ideas with digital leaders from around the world.

16 - 21 October, Turin, Italy

VIEW Conference focus on exploring the increasingly fluid boundary between real and digital worlds. Through lectures, meetings, tributes, exhibits, screenings and demo presentations VIEW will reveal the new digital frontier sweeping from cinema to architecture, from automotive design to advertisement, from medicine to videogames.

Cheap flights, trains, hotels, and car hire with 24/7 customer support & the Kiwi.com Guarantee. Discover a new way of traveling with our interactive map, airport, and destination guides in your pocket.

18 - 20 October, Los Angeles, USA / Livestream

Adobe MAX - The Creativity Conference is an annual event with the purpose to promote the latest Adobe releases to those in the computer design and development industries.

19 – 21 October, Wellington, New Zealand

Semi Permanent festival of creativity and design is coming to Wellington. New Zealand’s leading creative practitioners will showcase the breadth, depth, diversity, and potential of New Zealand's creative industries.

20 - 21 of October, Olso, Norway / Livestream

Y is a conference where you learn to make better products and services. Learn how to find the right problems, design and build services to solve them. Also organise better and grow the services we build.

20 - 22 October, Barcelona, Spain

Blanc Festival is three days with talks, masterclasses and activities around design and professional creativity, with the focus on emerging talent and recognition of the great masters and pioneers of design in Spain. And if there is something that characterizes Blanc, it is the closeness, the familiar and comradeship environment, and the playful/festive atmosphere that is breathed during the three days of celebration of the event.

October 20–22, 2022 Seattle, USA / Online

AIGA Design Conference 2022 is a premier design conference in the United States that will be held both IRL and virtually from October 20 - 22, 2022. The 3-day conference will discuss thought-provoking topics that challenge designers to think about the future.

22 - 30 October, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven is the largest design event in Northern Europe, brings together over 2,600 designers and creatives each year to showcase the latest in design and innovation.

24 - 26 October, Online

The ultimate three-day conference for front-end development experts. Enhance your skills. Learn new techniques. Be inspired by your peers.

26 - 27 October, Melbourne, Australia / Online

After a pandemic-induced hiatus, Melbourne’s award-winning NO/BS Conference makes its sophomore return, October 26 -27 at the Forum. The roadshow-style 2-day event is jam-packed with international and local talent across all walks of digital. It’s an unfiltered, honest, “digital reality check” to kickstart creative minds into action.

27 - 30 October, Namur, Belgium

The 11th edition of KIKK, an international festival of digital & creative cultures that explores the crossovers between art, science and technology. The program includes conferences, workshops, an art exhibition, outdoor art installations, a market with makers, startups and DIY projects, a pro area as well as electronic music parties.

27 - 28 October, Toronto, Canada / Livestream

DesignThinkers is Canada's largest annual graphic design conference. Register to connect with design professionals from around the world during two days of sessions, conversations and socials that explore creativity, the design process and the future of design.

28 - 31 October, Lisbon, Portugal

The___Dream by The House of Beautiful Business, a global platform and community to make humans more human and business more beautiful.

27 - 29 October, Guadalajara, Mexico

Letrastica is an international event of typography and design that takes place every two years in Guadalajara, Mexico. The festival includes conferences, workshops and exhibitions on an international level as well as demonstrations, professional critiques and an open forum. At Letrastica we share, talk and learn about typography, calligraphy, lettering, design and technology.

Arthur Reinders Folmer from Typearture teaches you in 11 lessons how to create a working variable color font and implement it in a website using HTML/CSS.

In celebration of Arthur’s new Google Font: Nabla, the course is €99, till the end of September. 🎉

Go to variablefontcourse.com and start today! Or tell your friends about it :)

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