Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

HOW’s edi­tor, Bryn Mooth, recently con­tacted me to give me some updated infor­ma­tion about the upcom­ing HOW Conference in Austin next month. I attended last year in Boston and it was a really great expe­ri­ence. I highly rec­om­mend it if it works within your bud­get and sched­ule. Here’s some news and updates directly from the source:

HOWconference​.com updated with more event info
Just this week, we retooled the HOWconference​.com home­page to help design­ers make the most of their con­fer­ence expe­ri­ence, with updates on extra activ­i­ties like work­shops and the pop­u­lar Austin Studio Tours, addi­tional ammu­ni­tion for con­vinc­ing their man­agers to send them to HOW and info on how they can build their own cus­tom con­fer­ence program.

Create your own con­fer­ence
With about 50 ses­sions (not to men­tion work­shops and evening activ­i­ties) to choose from, design­ers have lamented in the past that they have a hard time select­ing ses­sions when they reg­is­ter. So we’re offer­ing new tools to help them cus­tomize their own con­fer­ence expe­ri­ence and pick the pre­sen­ta­tions of most inter­est to them. We’ve high­lighted ses­sions tar­geted specif­i­cally toward agency design­ers, free­lancers, web/interactive design­ers, in-house cre­atives and stu­dio own­ers. Learn more right here.

New: sur­vive & thrive panel
The econ­omy is on everyone’s mind — and the biggest issue is uncer­tainty. When will we rebound? What hap­pens next? We’ve asked a panel of design indus­try folks to address these very ques­tions at a brand-new spe­cial ses­sion in Austin from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. on Friday, June 26. Jeni Herberger, Jeff Fisher, Steve Gordon, Jr., Daniel Schutzsmith, Andy Epstein and Megan Slabinski together cover every aspect of the indus­try, from in-house to agency to free­lance. They’ll talk about what other design­ers are see­ing and expe­ri­enc­ing and then look at where the design indus­try is headed. The rest of the ses­sion will be devoted to Q&A.

Online reg­is­tra­tion
You can reg­is­ter online right here.