Neon Monday #239

Your weekly design event guide.

Check out these recommended events.

SmashingConf San Francisco May 23-26 2023

Smashing Magazine is once again coming back to San Francisco with SmashingConf. This year’s — hybrid — edition is focused on all things front-end and takes place on May 23–26. The event has two days of single-track talks, and two days of interactive workshops, with an amazing speaker line-up and a lot of side events too.

🤩 This week's picks

Insights 2023 Design Lecture Series📅 Tuesday 7 March with WeShouldDoItAll (WSDIA), 7:00pm 📍 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA 🇺🇸

SXSW Interactive📅 to Sunday, 19 March📍 Austin, USA 🇺🇸

Athens Fashion Film Festival📅 Tuesday 14 to Friday 16 March📍 Athens 🇬🇷 athensfff.com

Explore all upcoming events on neonmoire.com

⏰ — Application deadline

Apply before Tuesday 14 March 2023 to the summer program TypeParis (June 6 to July 13, 2023) Learn type design with Marc Rouault, Gina Serret-Jové and guest critics Underware, Sandrine Nugue, DSType Foundry, and Francis Kaweit. 

🧰 Tools

  • This Visual timer helps me focus.

  • The travel-friendly UGREEN 65W USB-C provides enough charging power to fast charge phones, tablets, and laptops.

  • Snap-on and power up your iPhone with the Anker 521 Magnetic Battery, a magnetic wireless portable charger with USB-C Cable.

  • Need a new profile picture, or want to make your speaker section special? Check out profilepicture.ai. Upload multiple photos of yourself to generate a profile photo of you in one of the 350 styles, that looks perfect and captures who you are. 

🍿 Watch Back

Brian Collins says the opposite of courage isn’t cowardice, it’s conformity. Here, the co-founder of COLLINS shows us how having too much structure can kill the magic, through anecdotes from his working life. — at This talk took place as part of D&AD’s Still Learning Live event, which took place in London in September 2022.

👋 Too many links?! I created a calendar file with all upcoming events. Get it here

Explore upcoming event in☃️ January | 💕 February | 🌱 March |  ☔️ April | 🌸 May | ☀️ June | 🎆  July🍉 August | 🍂 September | 🎃 October | 🦃 November | 🎄 December📡 Online | 🌎 North America | 💃 Latin America | 🇪🇺 Europe🌍 Africa | 🕌 Middle East | ⛩ Asia | 🏄‍♂️ Oceania

👋

Organize an event?

Are you or do you have a friend/colleague who organizes a workshop, field trip, meet-up, festival, or conference and it’s a good fit for Neon Moiré? You are invited to add the upcoming event to our event guide.❤️

If this issue of Neon Monday inspired you, share it with a friend, and you want to help me make more like it, buy me a coffee or sponsor this newsletter to get your message in front of 2.5K+ creators. 

Waving from Delft,Thomas ✌️

DISCLAIMER: Amazon links are affiliate links. It doesn't cost you extra to buy through those and I just get a tiny commission. Thank you! 

Share this Neon Monday

Join the conversation

or to participate.