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Neon Monday #223 — Your Weekly Design Event Guide (3-9 Oct)

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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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.

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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 / Demoverse

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. If you can't make it to The Netherlands, on October 6th Demoverse opens its doors in Roblox.

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.

Events This Week!

1-15 October, Bucharest, Romania

Bucharest Graphic Days will take place across two weeks in Romania, with a focus on the country’s graphic design practices. Built principally around collaborations with cultural institutes and other cultural bodies from around the country, this multifarious participatory event is open to all those wishing to share their graphic design work with others. The program includes ten exhibitions, four workshops, and five days of talks.

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3 October, Online, 19:30 PM (UK time)

Astrid Stavro talks with Liza Enebeis creative director of Studio Dumbar and organizer of the Design in Motion Festival, which takes place October 6th in The Netherlands.

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 October, Amsterdam, NL / Online

The ways you can make money as a creator on social media have grown and broadened considerably. And with that growth, the mutual dependence that popular creators and extensive social media platforms have on each other seems to have only grown tenser. What are the consequences of being financially dependent on creating content on social media? How do these economic systems shape the content itself? And how do platforms and lawmakers respond to creators monetizing their content? The Hmm explores during this event these questions and get deep into the creator economy.

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 - 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 - 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.

Click Worthy — Event Branding

  • &Walsh event branding for Google I/O 2022. Together with the Google Events & Experiences team, &Walsh created a bespoke identity that could live on location, stage, digitally, and printed materials.

  • Vasjen Katro aka baugasm created the absolute stunning opening title for OFFF TLV. Every frame of the 2:33 min sequence is a poster!

  • Typefoundry Underware made with their font Plakato beautiful quick and dirty stencil posters for their Buitenbios events in September.

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.

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