About Design Matters | Design Matters 25

Design Matters runs global conferences on digital design – made for designers, by designers - where creatives gather together to share ideas, discuss their experiences, and foster change. Design Matters is also a knowledgeable community of creative and curious minds who share the same drive and passion for digital design, technology, art, society, and sustainability. In 2025 Design Matters will host a conference and a festival in Copenhagen over the span of 5 days.

Since 2015, Design Matters has been inspiring designers from all over the world, growing each year and reaching 1000 participants pre-Covid in Copenhagen in 2019, and again from 2022 on. In addition to the largest Copenhagen event, Design Matters has been running a yearly conference in Tokyo since 2020. It has also run editions in Mexico City in 2023 and 2024, in Lagos in 2023, and in Singapore in 2024 as part of Singapore Design Week. Since 2020 Design Matters has hosted its conferences in a hybrid way – online & in-person. All the talks from all previous conferences are available in our database.

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Our Mission

We, at Design Matters, are designers and activists. This is why, every year, we bring on stage the most brilliant and skilled design practitioners to talk with honesty and passion about their experiences, challenges, successes, and failures.

Our mission is to spark up the conversation about the work and the role of digital designers – now and in the future - and to build a global, diverse, and inclusive community where people connect and empower each other.

Since 2015, Design Matters has been inspiring designers from all over the world.

Our Events

Our events feature talks and workshops that revolve around defined topics that change every time and that are determined together with a Board of international designers and ex-speakers. The talks aim at providing you with new knowledge and/or with new fresh views and inspiration. The workshops let you dig deeper into a specific technique, process, or skill that you can take home and put into practice right away.

You will also find plenty of networking opportunities - some of them being facilitated - and lots of crafty and creative activities, as well as evening performances and parties to allow yourself to unwind and connect with other fellow designers in a relaxed and festival-ish setting.

Design Matters 25 is made of a two-day conference full of talks, workshops, networking activities, and evening performances, and a free three-day design festival.

Friendly and Kind

Design Matters isn’t only about inspiring talks and engaging workshops. It's also about creating the friendliest and most welcoming atmosphere, including people from all backgrounds. By joining Design Matters you will expand your knowledge, grow your network, experience new things, find inspiration, and most importantly…have a lot of fun!

Today, Design Matters has grown into an internationally renowned conference including diverse, knowledgeable, kind, and inspiring people from all over the world.

Want to know more about what we believe in and how we treat each other? Read our Code of Conduct .