UCDA Design Summit
March 29-31, 2012
Riverside, CA
It has been six years since the University & College Designers Association has been in Southern California. They are coming back this March! The UCDA Design Summit is scheduled for March 29-31 at the Mission Inn in Riverside, California. Many designers have found their roles at their institutions to be completely different than the ones they were hired to do. How do you manage to grow and change in those roles is the difference between success and frustration. Come to the UCDA Design Summit for renewal and rediscovery. Learn how to harness the power of collaboration, design and inspiration to create happier teams, smarter workflows and a better future for you at your institution.
TYPO San Francisco
April 5 – 6, 2012
San Francisco, California
TYPO, one of Europe’s most successful design conferences, will add an annual event in San Francisco. TYPO San Francisco will take place at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), April 5-6, 2012 centering around the theme Connect.
Good design makes this fun and easy, bad design ruins the experience. Being over connected can be fulfilling or overwhelming. Disconnecting can be a relief or isolating. And all of this is changing constantly with technology. TYPO San Francisco brings together incredible speakers from both European and American design communities to share their work and insights on what it means to connect.
Erik Spiekermann and Kali Nikitas will lead the conference, bringing together incredible speakers from both European and American design communities to share their work and insights on what it means to connect.
PBI’s Print & Media Boston Conference
April 11, 2012
Boston, MA
The PBI Boston program, created by PBI founder Margie Dana, will provide a behind-the-scenes look into the trends and advances that are revolutionizing the use of print and e-media today. Learn from industry innovators like award-winning creative visionary Daniel Dejan; Digitas Senior Production Manager Mariah Hunt; media and sustainability thought leader Don Carli; digital and variable data printing expert Cheryl Kahanec; and many more.
FUSE
April 18-20, 2012
Chicago, IL
FUSE explores the intersection of design and brand strategy. In 2012 FUSE celebrates the role of graphic,industrial and interactive design in building better brands, more profitable relationships with consumers and
more magical brand experiences. Uniting brand strategists, designers, packaging leaders, trendhunters and marketers, the FUSE experience is an eclectic mix of vision, enlightenment and ties that bond.
Creative Freelancer Conference
June 21-22, 2012
Boston, MA
Being self-reliant doesn’t mean going it alone all the time. At the only business conference for creative solo-preneurs, you’ll get expert, from-the-trenches advice on money management, marketing, client relations and more. And you’ll have the rare chance to connect and share survival tips with fellow freelancers. Creative Freelancers Conference is presented in partnership with Marketing Mentor.
InHOWse Managers Conference
June 21-23, 2012
Boston, MA
You lead a gutsy band of creatives through sometimes-perilous corporate territory. InHOWse brings you expert advice from veteran in-house pros on inspiring your creative team, powering through a heavy workload without losing the spark, selling your group’s ideas up the corporate ladder, and more.
HOW Design Conference
June 22-25, 2012
Boston, MA
Ignite your creativity, make your design skills unstoppable, sharpen your tech savvy and forge powerful connections with designers from around the globe. HOW Design Conference is your once-a-year refresher course in resisting the daily grind to make your design, your work and your life extraordinary.
The Dieline Package Design Conference
June 22-25, 2012
Boston, MA
Step outside the box at this inspiring, targeted event that solves the particular challenges you encounter as a packaging designer—and reveals the opportunities that arise when you know where to look. Innovation and reinvention are the watchwords at The Dieline Package Design Conference that will have you rethinking your assumptions about package design.
Graph Expo 2012
October 7-12, 2012
Chicago, IL
Innovation is important to you.
Investigate the hottest offset, digital and hybrid technologies and everything else on your wish list at Graph Expo 2012. Special show floor sections:
Prepress/Software/Workflow, Press/Finishing, Mailing & Fulfillment Center, GREENspace, PackPrint/Future Print, News Print, and more…
Gain: AIGA Design for Social Value Conference
October 9-10, 2012
San Francisco, CA
At “Gain” you’ll hear design, business and social innovation leaders share their visionary approaches to creating social value. Presenters will demonstrate the broadening role design plays in institutional strategy, positioning, leadership, process, service, product and message—and how designers’ creativity provides special advantages to tackling socially relevant projects and enhancing the human experience.
DMA 2012
October 13-18, 2012
Las Vegas, NV
Data is the new currency. Integration is the best strategy. Relationships are the key. Real-Time is the goal. Engagement is the reward.
It’s all there at DMA2012! It’s the only event that brings together thousands of practitioners and experts from the entire marketing continuum to discuss solutions and best practices to achieve optimal channel mix and integration that lead to measurable results and increase real-time customer engagement.
Design City 2012
November 17-19, 2012
Toronto, ON
Stay on top of your industry! Design City will showcase the latest graphic design tools, services, and products from the world’s largest vendors. You’ll see and test software that you’ve been wanting to try, you’ll meet the people that you talk to on the phone every day, and you’ll be wowed by some of the latest technology created for your profession.
