Fantastic Festival and Conference Websites of June 2018

How do you combine something awe-inspiring and extremely utilitarian?

Kikk Festival 2017

Agency: Dogstudio

KIKK Festival is a mix of technology, visual arts, music, Architecture, design and interactive media.

One of my absolute favorites, the Kikk Festival website is filled with micro-animation gold.

See it to believe it — even the smallest element on the homepage is animated

Grid of speakers

Conference event detail

Neat cards line the footer of each page

Google I/O

Google I/O is a developer festival that was held May 8–10 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA

As you would expect from Google, their I/O conference website is nothing short of simple, clean and delightful.

Ability to sign in and reserve seats

Animated countdown timer

Custom icons to help navigate between types of events

View details of each event as lightboxes directly from the calendar

Lattexplus Festival

Agency: MONOGRID

Lattexplus Festival is an electronic music & digital art festival in Italy.

Brutalism overload. Lattexplus combines sound, inverted images and distorted objects together.

Turn “on” the lights to reveal another color filter on the website

Bring back the marquee

Full Stack Fest 2016

Agency: Plastic Studio

A week-long full stack development conference with a focus on solving current problems with new & inspiring perspectives.

Bringing together one of the more interesting color schemes — teal and magenta.

Delicate lines and interesting combination of type

Showcase of conference values

Circles Conference

Agency: Circles Co

Circles is a three-day gathering on September 19–21, 2018 bringing designers, tech junkies and makers together from around the world to inspire, create and repeat. Circles provides an engaging space for attendees to learn from the industry’s top leaders while collaborating within a close network of creative professionals.

A clean, minimal conference website playing with typography, vector art and gradients.

One of the more well-designed calendars of conferences

Kikk Festival 2016

Agency: Dogstudio

KIKK is an international festival of digital and creative cultures. Its interest lies in the artistic and economic implications of new technologies. The event gathers people of all backgrounds from all around the world.

And of course, this icon. This website won the prestigious awwwards site of the year along with many others.

Notice the image break? Just one of the few random image animations throughout the website.

Sharing inspiration as it comes.

Cheers,

Steven.