Design After Design
In September 2025 this one-day festival of talks and open conversations in Copenhagen navigated three thematic perspectives, each reflecting on a key stage of the design lifecycle: BEFORE (research & context), DURING (processes & production), and AFTER (systems & interactions).
Speakers: Silvio Lorusso – Stan De Natris (Slavs and Tatars) – Marissa Cohn (ETHOS Lab) – Marie Højlund & Freja Kir (stanza)
The Post Design Tangle
The POST Design Tangle began in 2022 and was a two year, four city festival with a patchworked online hub. It took us deep into the theme of “entanglement,” unravelling the intersections, interconnections, and invisible strings that give shape to our visual and political surroundings.
Stockholm speakers: Nejc Prah – Elias Hanzer – Matilda Tjäder – Yehwan Song.
Oslo speakers: Noam Youngrak Son – Laurenz Brunner – Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo & Valentina Martinez (Tenthaus) – Nushin Yazdani – Sophie Douala
Copenhagen speakers: Maya Moumne (Studio Safar) – Kexin Hao – Wang & Söderström – Maša Poljanec (Oaza Kolektiv) – Bijan Berahimi (FISK) – Tommi Vasko (Trojan Horse)
Helsinki speakers: Chiara Di Leone – Manuel Raeder – Noura Tafeche – Laura Pappa – Ryan Waller (Other Means)
Post Design Festival 2019
A four day festival that challenged the place of graphic design, digital design and illustration practice in society, all within a former post(!) office turned museum.
Speakers: Hackers & Designers – Alexis Mark – Johanna Burai – Elham Namvar – Anna Degnbol – Dinamo – Amy Suo Wu – Fraser Muggeridge – Anna Haifisch – Paula Minelgaite – Roel Roscam Abbing / Low-tech Magazine – A Tool is a Thought is a Tool – Anja Kaiser – Charles Broskoski / Are.na – The Rodina
Post Design Festival 2017
A four day festival in Copenhagen focussed on the working life of the visual communicator, the politics of image making and the ethics of design.
Speakers: Støj – Jody Barton & Miss Lotion – Jakob Trollbäck – Alexander Scholz – Design! Activism! Diversity! – Wang & Söderström – Byggstudio – Vertigo – Johan F. Krarup – Zero-G – Corinne Gisel – Adrian Shaughnessy – Wrong Studio – Henriette Kruse / The Exposed – Government Digital Service – Lina Forsgren / Feministiska Kommunikationsbyrån – Marie Jacotey – Joakim Drescher – Hardworking Goodlooking
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Our first four day festival bringing designers, illustrators, image makers and academics of all kinds to Copenhagen.
Speakers: Kate Gibb & Rob ‘Supermundane’ Lowe – Abdul Dube – Eike König & Anne Meekers – Design Activism Research Hub – Andreas Wellnitz – Anna Sofie Mørch Bendixen – Jacob Birch – Simon Væth – Studio Atlant – Lawrence Zeegen – Bob Linney – Louise Sidenius Officin – Hanna Bergman – Hugh Frost – David Foldvari – Maren Karlson – Paul Davis
