DesignThinkers Vancouver 2024: who, what, when and more!
Into the Rabbit Hole is an invitation into the creative process—the dreamlike, unpredictable and unexpected world of endless discovery.
Join us on May 28-29 for DesignThinkers 2024 at Vancouver Playhouse for Into the Rabbit Hole and prepare for an ever-changing future. Below we share what is planned for this year's event.
DesignThinkers Vancouver will be in-person event, with an option to attend virtually through the event platform Pheedloop where you can watch live-streamed sessions and connect with other online attendees.
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Canada's largest graphic design conference, DesignThinkers will give you an opportunity to connect with and learn from fellow delegates during the roundtable discussions, attend workshops, hear from leaders from across the globe forging a new world through design, meet vendors and suppliers and much more.
May 28
- Tina Roth Eisenberg, Founder of Tattly, Creative Mornings & Teuxdeux
- Ashlea Spitz RGD, Founder of The Modern Design Academy and Pixsoul Media
- Zipeng Zhu, Artist, designer, art director & illustrator
- Diana Varma RGD, Design Educator & Podcaster, Toronto Metropolitan University
- Dominic Prevost, Group Creative Director, Resonance
- PUPILA Design Studio, Costa Rica
- Dori Tunstall, Design Anthropologist, Author & Design Leader
- Elana Rudick RGD, Founder & Creative Director, Design Is Yummy
- Paloma Rincon, Visual Artist
- Brent Long RGD, Co-Founder and Director, Client Happiness, Fusion Design Group
- Lorenzo Decicco, Chief Commercial Officer at MET
- Apples Milkovich, Director of Product Marketing at MET
- Lisa Congdon, Internationally-known Fine Artist, Illustrator & Writer
- Freddie Ost & Erik Kockum, Founder & Brand Director, Partner & Creative Director, SNASK
May 29
- Johnny Cupcakes, Award-winning Brand Hysteria Expert & CEO of the world’s 1st T-shirt Bakery
- Wil Arndt, Creative Director OXD and ThoughtFarmer
- Irene Pereyra, Co-founder of Anton & Irene
- Diana Varma RGD, Design Educator & Podcaster, Toronto Metropolitan University
- Zipeng Zhu, Artist, designer, art director & illustrator
- Kevin Hawkins, Director of Head of Design & Research at Amenitiz
- Ellen Lupton, Designer, Writer & Educator
- Tomasz Opasiński, Creative Technologist at Adobe
- Rich Tu, Partner & Executive Creative Director, Sunday Afternoon
- Jessica Hische, Lettering artist and Design Leader & NYT best-selling Author
The conference also features workshops by:
- Diana Varma RGD, Design Educator & Podcaster on LEGO Letterpress (May 28 & 29)
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Dominic Prevost, Group Creative Director on Discover Your Creative Archetype. Unlock Your Creative Potential (May 28)
- Elana Rudick RGD, Founder, Creative Director on Your Authentic-ish Self (May 28)
- Brent Long RGD, Co-Founder and Director on The Upside Down Triangle: Finding focus in your creative career (May 28)
- Zipeng Zhu, Artist, designer, art director & illustrato on Dynamic Pattern Making (May 29)
- Nour Al-Amoudi, Senior Instructor, Digital Design on Aero's Easter Eggs: Augmenting Reality and Our Toolset (May 29)
- Eleni Beveratou, Creative Director on Typefaces for Logos (May 29)
View a list of all speakers here
View and download the detailed schedule here
DesignThinkers Vancouver is followed by the RGD's Design Educators Conference taking place in-person on May 30 at Vancouver Community College. Details to follow.
2023 Partners: Whitman Emorson (Branding Partner), Adobe, Forge Media + Design, (Development Partner), MET (Print Partners), Spicers (Paper Partner), Porter Airlines (Official Airline Partner) and Vancouver Community College.
Platinum Sponsors: Hemlock, TINT'D
Gold Sponsor: MITCHELL, Northeastern University – Vancouver, Vancouver Film School
Silver and Bronze Sponsors: Dalton Maag, Dinamo, Glenmore Custom Print & Packaging, IDEA School of Design, Imperial Dade Canada Inc., Issues Magazine Shop, Modern Design Academy, Photos by Katelandl, Porchlight Press, ThinkNW
Questions about travel, accommodations, volunteering & more answered here!
Mentioned in this article
- Tattly
- Creative Mornings & Teuxdeux
- The Modern Design Academy
- Pixsoul Media
- Toronto Metropolitan University
- Resonance
- PUPILA Design Studio
- Design Is Yummy
- Fusion Design Group
- MET
- SNASK
- 1st T-shirt Bakery
- OXD
- ThoughtFarmer
- Anton & Irene
- Toronto Metropolitan University
- Amenitiz
- Adobe
- Sunday Afternoon
- Whitman Emorson
- Forge Media + Design
- Spicers
- Porter Airlines
- Vancouver Community College
- Hemlock
- TINT'D
- Dalton Maag
- Dinamo
- Glenmore Custom Print & Packaging
- IDEA School of Design
- Imperial Dade Canada Inc.
- Issues Magazine Shop
- Modern Design Academy
- Photos by Katelandl
- Porchlight Press
- ThinkNW
