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We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a matter of fact, we’ve discovered the best one—desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd. This creativity mission has been going on for over four years now, and we are very thankful to all designers who have contributed and are still diligently contributing each month.

This post features free desktop wallpapers created by artists across the globe for December 2012. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can be downloaded for free. It’s time to freshen up your wallpaper!

Please note that:

• All images can be clicked on and lead to the preview of the wallpaper,
• You can feature your work in our magazine by taking part in our Desktop Wallpaper Calendar series. We are regularly looking for creative designers and artists to be featured on Smashing Magazine. Are you one of them?

Delivery

Designed by Vlad Gerasimov from Russia.

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Holiday Hand-lettering

“A hand-drawn snowflake to get you in the holiday spirit!” Designed by Stephen Kistner from USA.

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• without calendar: 640×1136, 640×960, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1600×900, 1920×1080, 2048×2048, 2560×1440

Christmas Snake Surprise

Designed by Cheloveche.ru from Russia.

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New Year Is Near

Designed by Ljubinka Fuzinato from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Christmas Wishes

“Ever since my childhood I have always imagined santa and snowman dancing & celebrating for christmas. Here’s an illustration of that. Merry Christmas to one and all :).” Designed by Bharat Kv from India.

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December

Designed by Vlad Gerasimov from Russia.

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Tree Of Lights

Designed by Vlad Gerasimov from Russia.

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Merry Christmas

“Christmas greetings from Santa and his reindeer.” Designed by Eddie Wong from Ireland.

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Illustration (Underwater Paradise)

“Depending on our location on the globe, winter is lived differently. What about the underwater world?” Designed by Roxane Fiore from Canada.

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Trailer Santa

“A mid-century modern christmas scene outside the norm of snowflakes and winter landscapes.” Designed by Houndstooth from USA.

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Frosty Globe

Designed by Adrian Limbasan from Romania.

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Snowforest

“For those who love snowy days.” Designed by Bas Fellerhoff from Netherlands.

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Leaf Margins

Designed by Benga from Israel.

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Winter City

Designed by Sarfaraz Ansari from India.

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Fire Potion

“Fire Potion for sweet kisses and warm hugs.” Designed by Lin Chervenkova from United Kingdom.

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House Of The Birds

Designed by Pietje Precies from The Netherlands.

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White Playground

Designed by Kate Jones from Brighton, UK.

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Santa Claus Is Coming…

“Santa Claus is coming with lots of happiness and blessings for you and wish you Merry Christmas!” Designed by Debobrata Debnath from India.

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Ready For Christmas

“Frederique is a satiric webcomic series about the day-to-day adventures of three friends: going to school, getting rejected by hot chicks and enjoying life with full blown optimism.” Designed by Richard Dancsi from Hungary/Germany.

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• without calendar: 1152×864, 1280×720, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1680×1200, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 1920×1440, 2560×1440

Kemono Ninja

“Kemono Ninja is the title of our new game and the kemonos are the characters of our game, we are launching soon and here you can see the kemonos been ready for the next Christmas Day.” Designed by Hector J. Sanz, Virtualmind from Spain.

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Christmas In Advance

Designed by Elise Vanoorbeek from Belgium.

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Decemberist

“December is plowing yet. When the smoke-clouds break,High in the sky shines a field as wide as the world.There he toils for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake.Ah, he is taller than clouds of the little earth.Only the congress of planets is over him,And the arching path where new sweet stars have birth.Wearing his peasant dress, his head bent low,December, that angel of Peace, is plowing yet;Forward, across the field, his horses go.(Based on Chinese Nightingale, 1917).” Designed by Dynomite from Germany.

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Xmas Time

“I wish you a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year 2013 full of joy, happiness and prosperity ! :).” Designed by Tatyana Alexandrova from Russia.

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Best Friends

“Best friends posing for a photo.” Designed by Nenad S. Lazich from Serbia.

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Happy Holidays

“It’s that time of the year, when we forget our tears, rejoice, love and cheer!” Designed by Webinnova from India.

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Surprise

“Happy Holidays!” Designed by Zgm from Canada.

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Maya

Designed by Katerina Bobkova from Ukraine.

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Happy Holidays

Designed by Christina Mokry from Germany.

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Crazy Elf

“We’ve had a lot of fun creating designs based on the paintings of our good friend Cathy Senitt. This is from one of her fantastic 70s portraits.” Designed by Shirley Al from Canada.

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Show Some Guts

“Sometimes you just have to show some guts; even if it’s not what other people have in mind!” Designed by Kristjan Ait from Estonia.

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Sweet December

“Wish you a nice and sweet december 2012 :).” Designed by Claudio Lione from Germany.

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Christmas Snowflakes

“Everything has its own magic during the Christmas.” Designed by Magdalena Vinterova from Slovakia.

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Happy Holidays

“The wondrous Christmas celebrations and the immense genuine excitement fulfill our souls every single year, as soon as December begins. The magic spirit, brought up by the holiday can’t ever be compared to anything, likewise as the expectations for presents from Santa can’t ever be beaten with any other possible presents.” Designed by Maria S. from USA.

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Winter Garphee

“Garphee’s flufiness glowing in the snow.” Designed by Razvan Garofeanu from Romania.

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Join In Next Month!

Please note that we respect and carefully consider the ideas and motivation behind each and every artist’s work. This is why we give all artists the full freedom to explore their creativity and express emotions and experience throughout their works. This is also why the themes of the wallpapers weren’t anyhow influenced by us, but rather designed from scratch by the artists themselves.

A big thank you to all designers for their participation. Join in next month!

What’s Your Favorite?

What’s your favorite theme or wallpaper for this month? Please let us know in the comment section below.

Stay creative and keep on smashing!

(vf) (il)

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© Smashing Editorial for Smashing Magazine, 2012.

This week we have a beautiful icon freebie for you. BanzaiTokyo designed this art related icon set. Their collection of 34 icons are an homage to the creative professions. The icons are available as PNG files and released under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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The Art Professions Icons set would not be out of place in an artist’s portfolio website, be they cook or painter — or even multi-talented. Imagine these icons guiding a modern art gallery’s visitor through the institution’s online presence and you won’t feel let down. Any site remotely representing artistic efforts, finally, has a homogenous set at its disposal. Furthermore, the geniuses at BanzaiTokio did Smashing Magazine the honor of designing an icon just for us, which you will also find below.

The icons are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. You are free to distribute, transform, fiddle with and build them into your work, even commercially. Please always credit the original designer of the set. The icons may not be resold, sub-licensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use.

Download The Set For Free!

You can use this icon set freely for commercial and personal projects. Please link to this release post if you want to spread the word.

• large preview (.jpg)
• download the icon set for free (.zip, 12,3 MB; PNG files).

Description

The set contains 34 icons for various occasions. The Icons are available in eight sizes — 32×32 px, 48×48 px, 64×64 px , 72×72 px, 96×96 px, 128×128 px, 256×256 px, 512×512 px. The icons included are:

• 3D
• Animation
• Architecture
• Body Art
• Cinema
• Comics
• Creative Writing
• Culinary Arts
• Dance
• Digital Art
• DJ
• Drawing
• Fashion
• Game Development
• Industrial Design
• Interior Design
• Literature
• Music
• Packaging
• Painting
• Photo Editing
• Photography
• Pixel Art
• Print
• Programming
• Publishing
• Sculpture
• Sculpture2
• Street Art
• Theater
• Typography
• UI Design
• Vector Art
• Web Design

Behind The Design

As always, here are some insights from the designers:

“We see a lot of icons created for business and general public – social networking and ecommerce, what bothered us is that fellow creatives – writers, painters, sculptors and many others were overlooked and we made it our goal to create icons for every creative activity there is.

Now artists can use these icons to showcase different sections of their portfolio websites and blog writers can have a complete coverage of all creative activities.”

— BanzaiTokio

Thanks, BanzaiTokio, for being creative for the creative community!

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© Smashing Editorial for Smashing Magazine, 2012.

After endless suplications from the design community Daniel Bruce finally finished his update of the Entypo Glyph Set — a free set of universal 284 carefully crafted pictograms for regular design projects. The icons are available as EPS, PDF and Photoshop PSD files as well as desktop typefaces (TrueType, OpenType) and Web fonts.

Download The Set For Free!

This set contains a large collection of glyphs for all occasions and uses — common pictograms that shouldn’t be missing in anybody’s arsenal. Each glyph was drawn and optimized to make sure that it fits the overall style of the suite. Overall, the set contains 284 pictograms. You can use this glyph set freely for commercial and personal projects.

The freebie is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. You are free to distribute, transform, fiddle with and build them into your work, even commercially. However, please always credit the original designer of the set (in this case, Daniel Bruce). The Social Extension glyphs are subject to the trademark and copyright laws of their respective companies.

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• download the whole set for free (.zip, 10.3 Mb).
• download the whole set from the designer’s site (the archive is a .dmg-file)

Behind The Design

As always, here are some insights from the designer:

“The first Version was released in February 2012 and had around 120 glyphs. Actually, the only reason why I designed it was that I myself needed a well-designed pictogram suite for my own projects. I also wanted a suite with a more illustrated style than the ones available out there. So I started with the 20-30 glyphs that I needed at the time — ending up with 120 glyphs. And since I already had done the work, it was an obvious choice to release them free to the Web design community we all are a part of. Let’s say it was my chance to give something back.

So now — 7 months and 83.000 downloads later — it was time for an update. During that time, many people asked for new glyphs that they felt should be a part of the suite. This, together with my own ever-expanding need for pictograms, has led to Entypo 2 with over 280 glyphs.

The update has brought:

• Over 150 new glyphs
• Improved design of many of the old icons
• A new social media extension
• Improved hinting

When selecting what social media services should go into the Entypo Social, it was important for me to include services from non-Western societies as well. That’s why Entypo is the first suite where you can find pictograms for QQ, Renren, Sina Weibo, Mixi and VK. And true to the phrase “carefully crafted” I haven’t just copy-pasted the logos of all services into the suite. I have actually redrawn most of them so they are optimized for a size of 20×20 pix at 72 dpi.

The hardest pictogram to draw was strangely enough the key glyph. It sounds pretty straightforward, but getting the perfect shape of a modern key that would go well with the rest of the suite took me quite some time.

My favorite pictogram is the trash can. It has a very distinct look to it and sets it apart from all other icon fonts. The trash can is also one of those pictograms that have depth. You might notice that Entypo is a mix of flat glyphs and ones with a bit of perspective.

— Daniel Bruce

Thanks, Daniel! We sincerely appreciate your time and efforts! You can follow Daniel on Twitter and on Dribbble.

(jc)

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© Smashing Editorial for Smashing Magazine, 2012.

We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a matter of fact, we’ve discovered the best one—desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd. This creativity mission has been going on for over four years now, and we are very thankful to all designers who have contributed and are still diligently contributing each month.

This post features free desktop wallpapers created by artists across the globe for November 2012. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can be downloaded for free. It’s time to freshen up your wallpaper!

Please note that:

• All images can be clicked on and lead to the preview of the wallpaper,
• You can feature your work in our magazine by taking part in our Desktop Wallpaper Calendar series. We are regularly looking for creative designers and artists to be featured on Smashing Magazine. Are you one of them?

Days Go By

“Days go by so slowly in Autumn.” Designed by Mirjana Bajic from Serbia.

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Remember November

“This wallpaper is our tribute to great movie and graphic novel.” Designed by Agence Studio and German Ljutaev from Ukraine.

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• without calendar: 320×480, 640×480, 800×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1152×864, 1280×720, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1680×1200, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 1920×1440, 2560×1440

A Sea Of Leaves

Designed by Arkadiusz Radek from Poland.

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November 2012

Designed by Vlad Gerasimov from Russia.

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Content Nuggets vs. Data Catchers

“Novius OS is a new CMS built-on “Create Once Publish Everywhere” principle and is powered by these stranges creatures called content nuggets and data catchers.” Designed by Jack Mü – Novius Os from France.

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Smoke Kills

Designed by Cheloveche.ru from Russia.

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Primavera

“Here is a wallpaper that celebrates the arrival of the spring in the southern hemisphere.” Designed by Finxduvey from Argentina.

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Moustache Movember

“Movember is a moustache growing charity event held during the month of November each year that raises funds and awareness for men’s health.” Designed by Michael Jones from Australia.

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Bursting Chestnut

Designed by Vlad Dusa from Romania.

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Abstract Peacock Wallpaper

Designed by Faria Malik from United Arab Emirates.

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Autumn Leaves

“Fall season brings out the best colors in nature. Even after rainfall, the bright fiery leaves still maintain their warmth and beauty.” Designed by Shay Pessah from USA.

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Give Thanks

Designed by Jeny Dowlin from USA.

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Autumn Choir

Designed by Hatchers from Ukraine / China.

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First Icicles Of The Coming Winter

Designed by Aleksandra Sivoronova from Latvia.

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Through The Looking Glass

Designed by Andrei Terbea from Romania.

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Ethereal

Designed by Forsaken from France.

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Night Dragon

“A hand-drawn dragon flying through the galaxy.” Designed by Bronte Allen from Australia.

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Fall Harvest

“For this month, the Fall Harvest theme is done using a scan of my original oil painting.” Designed by Beth Jenna from USA.

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Under The Mask

“Dreamy look under the half mask.” Designed by Goran Kojadinovic from Serbia.

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Calaca. The Day Of The Dead.

“This illustration was created to celebrate the dawn of one Calaca, in the Day of the Dead (El dia de muertos) this year this year that the world ends, as some say.” Designed by Celsius Pictor from Spain.

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Perfect Desktop

“Because a perfect desktop is an orderly desktop!” Designed by Elise Vanoorbeek from Belgium.

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Mustache Movember

“It’s time to grow out your mustache and celebrate mustache Movember!” Designed by Marina Zhukov from USA.

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Thanksgiving

Designed by Cortando Pixeles from Argentina.

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My Sweet Home

Designed by Paarva Creations from India.

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Rainy Days

“I love penguins!” Designed by Vihra Petrova from Bulgaria.

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Join In Next Month!

Please note that we respect and carefully consider the ideas and motivation behind each and every artist’s work. This is why we give all artists the full freedom to explore their creativity and express emotions and experience throughout their works. This is also why the themes of the wallpapers weren’t anyhow influenced by us, but rather designed from scratch by the artists themselves.

A big thank you to all designers for their participation. Join in next month!

What’s Your Favorite?

What’s your favorite theme or wallpaper for this month? Please let us know in the comment section below.

Stay creative and keep on smashing!

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© Smashing Editorial for Smashing Magazine, 2012.

With the intense workload throughout the year, we tend to miss out on the opportunites for networking with like-minded designers and developers. This makes it difficult for us to catch up and stay up to date with what’s going on in our industry. For this reason, we’ve put together a list of upcoming Web design and development conferences that will present to you only the best techniques, tools and modern design approaches that are in strong demand worldwide.

This post covers events taking place in about a five-month timeframe up to late February 2013. These conferences take us pretty much through the end of the year, so keep a lookout for our next issue as 2013 gets underway.

There is no way for us to include every possible event, so you are more than welcome to help us out and provide a comment to an upcoming event that you feel would be of interest to Smashing Magazine’s readers. The list is quite lengthy, so let’s dive in.

• October 2012
• November 2012
• December 2012
• January 2013
• February 2013

October 2012

Content Strategy Forum Cape Town 2012
“The third annual Content Strategy Forum. There will be presentations and workshops by international authorities on content strategy, UX, design and more, as well as plenty of music and merriment under the African night-sky.”

• When: Oct. 24-26, 2012
• Where: Cape Town, South Africa

Wired 2012
“WIRED 2012 is a two-day event designed to bring alive the talent, creativity and ambition you find in WIRED magazine every month.”

• When: Oct. 25-26, 2012
• Where: London (The Brewery)

CocoaConf | iOS/OS X Developer Conference
“CocoaConf is coming to Portland this October 25th to 27th. We’ll have a full day of hands-on workshops, followed by two days packed with technical sessions, exciting keynotes, and engaging panels.”

• When: Oct. 25-27, 2012
• Where: Portland

Test the Web Forward
“Test the Web Forward is an event where you will learn to better understand the specs you use every day to design your sites. You will also discover how you can shape the future of the Web.”

• When: Oct. 26-27, 2012
• Where: Paris, France

JS.everywhere(2012) – Wakanday
“Join us in the heart of Silicon Valley for a full day of inspiring and informative talks focused on JavaScript by the industry’s most passionate experts, followed by a bonus day of in-depth Wakanday workshops (compliments of 4D), focused on the development platform for Web and mobile applications for enterprise.”

• When: Oct. 26-27, 2012
• Where: San Jose, CA

Pittsburgh Web Design Day
“Web Design Day is a one-day conference designed to bring the best of modern Web Design to Pittsburgh.”

• When: Oct. 26, 2012
• Where: Pittsburgh, PA

DrupalHagen
“This Camp Will Focus On Drupal 7 Deployment, Drupal 8 Development With Updates From D8 Initiatives, And Give You An Opportunity To Get To Know Your Fellow Drupalgeeks.”

• When: Oct. 26-28, 2012
• Where: Copenhagen, Denmark

In Front Maceio
“Following the success of other events, the Front in Maceió is the first event focused on frontend development in northeastern Brazil.”

• When: Oct. 27, 2012
• Where: Maceio, Brazil

CPOSC | Central PA Open Source Conference
“The Central PA Open Source Conference (CPOSC) is an annual, one-day conference about all things Open Source.”

• When: Oct. 27, 2012
• Where: Harrisburg, PA

Drupalcamp Atlanta
“On Saturday, October 27, we’ll hold our all-day Drupalcamp with keynote speaker “mobile-guru” Josh Clark, breakout sessions and Birds of Feather.”

• When: Oct. 27, 2012
• Where: Atlanta

UXconference
“The latest trends in the field of User Experience, business and digital design through the words of the leading experts.”

• When: Oct. 27th, 2012
• Where: Aula Magna USI, Lugano

Re:Design Conferences – Creative Directors
“What happens when you put a bunch of creative directors in a room, throw in a few sangrias, and tell them to talk to each other? Magic, baby, pure magic. For RE:DESIGN/Creative Directors, we feature sessions by leading creative directors. We focus on small-scale peer-based conversations, so we limit the number of attendees to 125. The result is two days of interacting with a stellar group of fellow creative directors.”

• When: Oct. 29-30, 2012
• Where: Portland, Oregon (Kennedy School)

Games DevCon
“The Games DevCon brings together key players in the German games industry over two days, the industry provides an outlook on trends and perspectives and presents business opportunities.”

• When: Oct. 29-30, 2012
• Where: Mayence, Germany

Pioneers Festival
“STARTeurope goes beyond expectations to celebrate entrepreneurship and innovative technology. 60 world-class, international speakers will split up on two tracks and Europe’s top 50 start-ups will battle in the Startup Challenge.”

• When: Oct. 29-31, 2012
• Where: Vienna, Austria (Hofburg Imperial Palace)

2012 HOW Interactive
“At the HOW Interactive Design Conference, experts like Jose Caballer, Christopher Butler and David Sherwin will help you transfer your print design skills to the Web.”

• When: Oct. 29-31, 2012
• Where: San Francisco

Fall 2012 Dev Connections
“Dive into an extensive variety of sessions that will help you effectively utilize the latest ASP.NET and HTML5 technologies during the Fall 2012 ASP.NET & HTML5 Connections conference.”

• When: Oct. 29 – Nov. 1, 2012
• Where: Las Vegas, NV (Bellagio)

November 2012

Build 2012
“At Build, we’ll dive deep to cover all the areas you care about. How to design and build beautiful Windows 8 apps. How to sell your apps in the Windows 8 Store and make money. And much more.”

• When:Oct. 30 – Nov. 2, 2012
• Where:Redmond, WA

HD Live 2012
“Now in our third year, HDLive is back for 2012 showcasing some of the world’s leading experts in technology, business, branding, education, mobile and the Web.”

• When: Nov. 1st, 2012
• Where: Hull, UK

BADCamp 2012
“BADCamp is a gathering of like-minded people to discuss and learn about Drupal, an open-source content management system that is powering more of the Web every year.”

• When: Nov. 1-4, 2012
• Where: U.C. Berkley, CA

API Strategy and Practice Conference
“API Strategy and Practice is a vendor neutral and community supported API industry conference.”

• When: Nov. 1-2, 2012
• Where: New York, NY (Westin Grand Central)

Topconf Tallin
“Topconf Tallinn offers ideal opportunities for learning, networking and tracking innovation occurring in the Java, Mobile, .Net, OpenSource, Lean/Agile, Architecture New Languages & Process communities.”

• When: Nov. 1-2, 2012
• Where: Tallinn, Estonia

RubyConf 2012
“A conference that is all about Ruby!”

• When: Nov. 1-3, 2012
• Where: Denver, CO

UX Brighton 2012
“A mix of practical and theoretical, commercial and academic – the point of this year’s theme is that knowledge of the past informs us to create better products for the future.”

• When: Nov. 2, 2012
• Where: Brighton, UK (The Corn Exchange)

Frontend Masters Workshop Series 2
“6 Intense Days. 6 Incredible Speakers. Become a Guru by Learning from the Masters.”

• When: Nov. 2 through Dec. 14, 2012 (Fridays)
• Where: Burnsville, MN (South of Minneapolis, MN)

FrontInSampa
“The FrontInSampa is an opportunity for the Front-end development community in Paulista to meet and improve. Sharing experiences for the common good.”

• When: Nov. 3, 2012
• Where: Sao Paulo, Brazil

SQL in the City Seattle 2012
“We’ve invited along some of the top SQL Server MVPs to provide insights about key topics for SQL Server.”

• When: Nov. 5, 2012
• Where: Seattle

UI17: User Interface 17, The UX
“Up your UX game with daylong workshops on advanced design processes, flexible team–based techniques, and multi–device solutions. 3 days you can’t miss.”

• When: Nov. 5-7, 2012
• Where: Boston, US

QCon San Francisco 2012 Conference
“The program includes two tutorial days led by over 80 industry experts and authors and three conference days with 18 tracks and over 80 speakers covering a wide variety of relevant and exciting topics in software development today.”

• When: Tutorials – Nov. 5-6 | Conference Nov. 7-9, 2012
• Where: San Francisco

CodeKen 2012 – Software Developer Conference
“CodeKen 2012 is a one day online social conference for developers with a passion for their profession.”

• When: Nov. 6,2012
• Where: Online

How To Web 2012
“Follow practical case-studies, discover how tech innovation changes the world, meet your peer tech entrepreneurs and professionals from all around Central and Eastern Europe.”

• When: Nov. 7-8, 2012
• Where: Bucharest, Romania

CodeConnexx
“CodeConnexx is a two-day, one track conference that aims to bring together men and women of all ages, races, backgrounds, and skillsets interested in talking about code.”

• When: Nov. 8-9, 2012
• Where: Indianapolis

CascadiaJS 2012
A conference that is geared towards those interested and immersed in JavaScript.

• When: Nov. 8-9, 2012
• Where: Seattle, WA

FITC // Web Unleashed 2012
“This year builds upon five years of learning and collaborating over two days; one of which is a day committed to hands on workshops, the second features a day filled with informative sessions.”

• When: Nov. 8-9, 2012
• Where: Waltham, MA

Visualized
“Join us for an inspiring two-day gathering with the brightest minds and social innovators from around the world who are changing how we understand and interact with data; and gain insight into designing data-driven narratives that connect with audiences and visualize the human experience.”

• When: Nov. 8-9, 2012
• Where: New York, NY

User Friendly 2012
“Build a Harmonious User eXperience Ecosystem”

• When: Nov. 8-11, 2012
• Where: Beijing, China

Compute Midwest 2012
“Compute Midwest is a 2 day convergence of tech: new people, new ideas and innovation in Kansas City.”

• When: Nov. 8-11, 2012
• Where: Kansas City, MO

Full Frontal 2012
“Full Frontal 2012 is a one day JavaScript Conference”

• When: Nov. 9, 2012
• Where: Brighton, UK (Duke of York’s Picturehouse)

UCD 2012 Conference
“UCD2012 explores how User Centred Design is applied in a variety of disciplines.”

• When: Nov. 9-10, 2012
• Where: London, UK

UX Camp 2012
“An ad hoc conference on effective usability and good-fit solutions that are built around the “user experience”.”

• When: Nov. 9-10, 2012
• Where: Vienna, Austria

Mozilla Festival 2012
“The Mozilla Festival is a magnet for people interested in learning about – and playing with – the future of the Web.”

• When: Nov. 9-11, 2012
• Where: London, UK

Webfontday 2012
“Webfontday 2012 is dedicated to courageous and extraordinary solutions in Web design. It will teach hands-on tricks for everyday tasks and display brilliant and inspiring examples.”

• When: Nov. 10, 2012
• Where: Munchen, Deutschland

Form, Function & Class 2012
“This Form, Function & Class Conference is the flagship event of the Philippine Web Designers Organization (PWDO) aiming to gather the brightest minds in the Philippine Web design scene. The upcoming event is open to all people who are determined to learn more of the basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.”

• When: Nov. 10-11, 2012
• Where: Manila, Philippines

WebConf Riga 2012
“WebConf Riga 2012, the international professional Web developers conference. It will gather all kind of Web development professionals mainly from Baltics, Europe and CIS countries.”

• When: Nov. 10-11, 2012
• Where: Riga, Latvia

ISWC2012 | The 11th International Semantic Web Conference
“ISWC 2012 is the premier international forum, for the Semantic Web / Linked Data Community. Here, scientists, industry specialists, and practitioners meet to discuss the future of practical, scalable, user-friendly, and game changing solutions.”

• When: Nov. 11-15, 2012
• Where: Boston

“An Event Apart San Francisco features 12 great speakers and sessions. The two-day conference has sold out, but you can still register for an intense full-day workshop on Designing for Mobile & Beyond”

• When: Nov. 12-14, 2012
• Where: San Francisco (The Palace Hotel)

CouchConf NYC | Couchbase
“This one-day event is for anyone who wants to take a deeper dive into Couchbase NoSQL technology, learn where it’s headed and build really cool stuff.”

• When: Nov. 12, 2012
• Where: New York, NY (The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers)

Mobile JS Summit
“Environments for Humans brings together some of the Web’s most notable experts in Mobile Javascript for an all-new, one-day only online conference, the Mobile JavaScript Summit!”

• When: Nov. 12, 2012
• Where: Online

Build Conference
“Build is a festival for people who design for the Web. For one week in November, a community of smart, talented people come together to share ideas, tell stories, get their hands dirty, and drink a few beers.”

• When: Nov. 12-16, 2012
• Where: Belfast, Northern Ireland

SES Chicago 2012 – SES Conference
“Designed for you by industry thought leaders and innovators, our instructional program will meet your needs whatever your experience level.”

• When: Nov. 12-16, 2012
• Where: Chicago

Montreal Digital Festival
“Web-In is a Web event created by, and intended for, Web professionals./The Montreal International Game Summit (MIGS) was initially created in 2004 to meet the needs of the Quebec video game industry./Mobiz, The Quebec Mobile Congress, is an event dedicated to the mobile technologies which features lectures, panel discussions and presentations by local and international personalities in the industry.”

• When: Nov. 12-15,2012
• Where: Montreal, Canada

Devoxx 2012
“We Code in Peace” A conference for coders!

• When: Nov. 12-16, 2012
• Where: Antwerp, Belgium

Daily Web 2012
“Our events are different from others especially the the quality of the content. That we guarantee!”

• When: Nov. 14, 2012
• Where: Bratislava, Slovakia

YUIConf 2012
A conference focused on this free, open source JavaScript and CSS library for building richly interactive Web applications, YUI.

• When: Nov. 14-15, 2012
• Where: Santa Clara, CA

JS Conf Downunder
An exciting day of JS experts sharing their passion of JS down under.

• When: Nov. 15, 2012
• Where: Sydney, Australia (Town Hall)

MobX Conference 2012
“This conference is for all you creative minds out there who deal with User Experience, interfaces and interactions in mobile contexts.”

• When: Nov. 16-17, 2012
• Where: Berlin, Germany

JS.everywhere 2012 Europe
“An event focused on the advancement and promotion of JavaScript in the enterprise.”

• When: Nov. 16-17, 2012
• Where: Paris, France

Joomla! World Conference 2012
“Joomla! is one of the most popular Content Management Systems in the world and has grown to power millions of websites over the last several years. This conference is a community meeting, and a great starting point for getting involved in the Joomla! community. You’ll get information about almost every aspect of the Joomla! CMS, the Joomla! Web Application Platform, and about the Joomla! Community, the one and only community driven Open Source project.”

• When: Nov. 16-18, 2012
• Where: San Jose, CA, USA

devmob
“Building or selling mobile apps? Dev? Designer? UX? Marketing? iOS coder? Web designer? Windows 8 entrepreneur? Android expert? You are devmob. Come to the only conference in New Zealand for everyone who is pushing the limits of mobile platforms.”

• When: Nov. 17-18, 2012
• Where: Albany, New Zealand

Handheld Conference
“The conference for all things mobile, Web and native. This is what makes us different to all of the other conferences out there, and let’s be honest, there are a lot.”

• When: Nov 19, 2012
• Where: Cardiff, UK

Beyond Tellerrand
“We are back with another edition of beyond tellerrand, an affordable 3-day event with intensive workshops and 16 high-quality talks for Web enthusiasts: design, technology, inspiration, and networking. Day one and two cover 16 talks in a single track conference. Day three features up to 4 full-day workshops with Remy Sharp, Ben Bodien and more to come.”

• When: Nov. 19-21, 2012
• Where: Dusseldorf, Germany

Untapped – the Event
“An event where never before heard voices speak about UX.”

• When: Nov. 20, 2012
• Where: Clerkenwell, London

Slush
“Slush is the largest tech, design & startup conference covering Northern Europe and Russia.”

• When: Nov. 21-22, 2012
• Where: Helsinki, Finland

push.conference
“A unique two-part event for the interactive field. push.ux connects designers and developers of outstanding user interfaces, while push.inspiration unites creative coders and designers experimenting with innovative technologies.”

• When: Nov 23-24, 2012
• Where: Munich, Germany

Conversion Conference London
“The conference is dedicated to anyone wanting to achieve maximum ROI from their online campaigns as this is the place where internationally renowned experts explain how to improve sales and dramatically increase your site’s conversion rates.”

• When: Nov. 27-28, 2012
• Where: London, UK

Future of Web Design Prague 2012
“Future of Web Design (FOWD) is a first-class conference for Web designers and front end developers, bringing you top speakers, the hottest topics and an unbeatable atmosphere. This year, we’re in Prague for the very first time! As if that wasn’t exciting enough, FOWD is also joining forces with Future of Web Apps (FOWA) giving you two conferences for the price of one!”

• When: Nov. 27-29, 2012
• Where: Prague, Czech Republic (The Prague Congress Centre)

Future of Web Apps Prague 2012
“Future of Web Apps (FOWA) is a first-class conference for Web and mobile developers and entrepreneurs, bringing together visionaries to discuss the technologies and platforms you should use to build the next generation of successful apps. This year, we’re in Prague for the very first time! As if that wasn’t exciting enough, FOWA is also joining forces with Future of Web Design (FOWD) giving you two conferences for the price of one!”

• When: Nov. 27-29, 2012
• Where: Prague, Czech Republic (The Prague Congress Centre)

YOW!2012 Australian Software Developer Conference
“Organized by Developers for Developers no other event provides the technical breadth and depth with 39 invited talks in 3 tracks plus 10 invited full-day workshops.”

• When: Nov. 27-28 (Workshops) 29-30 (Conference)
• Where: Melbourne, Australia

The Rich Web Experience 2012
“RWX 2012 will cover the hot areas of interest in the Web space today: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Ajax Libraries, jQuery, Semantic Web, iPhone, Android, Netty, Dojo, CoffeeScript, Solr, Node.js, Security, Semantic Web, NoSQL (Neo4J & MongoDB), and more. RWX 2012 will feature 8 parallel tracks with 40 speakers and 120 technical sessions/workshops.”

• When: Nov. 27-30, 2012
• Where: Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Design for Conversion
“A highly interactive conference aiming to collectively (as one big family) deepen our knowledge of Persuasive Technology, Experience Design and Evidence Based Marketing, and how these disciplines can learn from each other.”

• When: Nov. 28, 2012
• Where: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Mobile Future
“Mobile Future is an annual event arranged for the eleventh time by Mobil and its business spin-off Mobil:Business, the leading publications in the mobile space of the Northern Europe.”

• When: Nov. 28, 2012
• Where: Stockholm, Sweden

JSCamp.Asia
“Finally, a JavaScript conference in Asia. With all its awesome!”

• When: Nov. 29-30, 2012
• Where: Singapore

UX Cambridge 2012
“A community-driven, practical User Experience conference Connect and learn from your peers and leaders in the industry in a comfortable and exciting space and take away skills you can immediately use in your work”

• When: Nov. 29-30, 2012
• Where: Cambridge, UK

dotJS
“The largest JavaScript conference in France”

• When: Nov. 30, 2012
• Where: Paris, France

We Actually Build Stuff
“This conference is for and by people who actually build stuff. The talks are about building actual stuff, not theory. The rot of the trenches never smelled so good.”

• When: Nov. 30, 2012
• Where: Vilnius, Lithuania

December 2012

Kings of Code Festival 2012
“Explore and discuss the latest trends, developments and best practices in Web and mobile development technologies. We’ve invited leading international speakers & developers to share their knowledge and visions on development and coding.”

• When: Dec. 1-4, 2012
• Where: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

In Control 2012
“Spend two content-rich days with some of the most forward-thinking Designers and Developer building today’s Web. Limited enrollment and longer sessions allow for more meaningful interaction with our expert speakers and fellow attendees. Join us to expand your skill set and use updated techniques to refine your Web design craft.”

• When: Dec. 2-4, 2012
• Where: Honolulu, Hawaii

LeWeb’12 Paris
“#1 European Industry Event”

• When: Dec. 4-6, 2012
• Where: Paris, France

CSS Dev Conference
“Join Dan Cederholm, Paul Irish, Estelle Weyl, Chris Coyier, and many more as we discover the latest in the intersection of CSS and Preprocessors (Sass, Compass, etc.), JavaScript, Responsive Web Design & Mobile at the first annual CSS Dev Conference. Two keynotes, twenty sessions and four tracks make for a fast-paced full-day immersion into modern CSS techniques!”

• When: Dec. 5, 2012
• Where: Honolulu, Hawaii

RUPY 2012
“Rupy is a conference focused on strongly dynamic technologies related to Ruby, Python and JavaScript.”

• When: Dec. 7-9, 2012
• Where: Sao Paulo, Brazil

UX Camp Brighton
“A one day ‘unconference’ at for anyone involved or interested in user experience design, interaction design, information architecture or usability.”

• When: Dec. 8, 2012
• Where: Brighton & Hove City, England

Ready to Inspire Conference
“Ready to Inspire is a brand new conference about the craft of Web design, type and code. It has workshops, live music, meetups and parties, but above all an exciting lineup of today’s craftspeople and mind blowing new faces.”

• When: Dec 9-12, 2012
• Where: Leiden, The Netherlands

Hacker Beach
“Nomadic hackers, come work on your projects in a tropical paradise”

• When: Dec. 30, 2012-Jan. 29, 2013
• Where: Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam

January 2013

TakeOff Conference 2013
“From server side to pure front end and design, from new languages, Web frameworks to development techniques or typographic tricks, Take Off is your chance to discover how the Web will evolve in the coming year.”

• When: Jan. 17-18, 2013
• Where: Lille, France

DLD Conference
“DLD (Digital – Life – Design) is a global conference network on innovation, digital media, science and culture which connects business, creative and social leaders, opinion-formers and investors for crossover conversation and inspiration.”

• When: Jan. 20-22, 2013
• Where: Munich, Germany

New Adventures In Web Design Conference
“We work with our speakers to foster an incredible day around several key themes, and we’ll introduce all eight topics later in the year.”

• When: Jan. 23-25, 2013
• Where: Nottingham, UK (Albert Hall)

The Design of Understanding 2013
“A one day conference looking at how ideas are designed to be more understandable.”

• When: Jan. 25, 2013
• Where: London, UK (St Brides Library)

Mobile + Web DevCon
“Mastering the appropriate development tools, design techniques and latest technologies is the key to keeping pace with a constantly changing industry. Mobile+Web DevCon is dedicated to bringing you the most knowledgeable speakers, the latest research and inspiration for your development career.”

• When: Jan. 29-31, 2013
• Where: San Francisco, CA

February 2013 (And Beyond)

Jfokus
“The program includes a long list of international speakers from leading universities and software companies”

• When: Feb. 4-6, 2013
• Where: Stockholm, Sweden (Waterfront Conference Centre)

Webstock 2013
“Two intense, action-packed days of aspiration, inspiration and brain stimulation, covering everything from empathy in design, to expertry in HTML5 & CSS, to the future of education and how tech makes us human.”

• When: Feb. 11-15, 2013
• Where: Wellington, New Zealand (Wellington Town Hall)

Snow*Mobile – A Mobile Development Conference
A community of people who recognize the explosion of mobile devices and see how they are affecting our interactions. Pulling together locals and some experts from around the country and have that conversation!

• When: Feb. 15-16, 2013
• Where: Madison, WI (Union South)

Toca Me 2013
“Next Stop Design!”

• When: Feb. 16, 2013
• Where: Munich, Germany

FITC Amsterdam 2013
“The latest and greatest in design, technology and cool shit from all around the world. Join fellow digital creators and renowned speakers at the Felix Meritas this February to learn about HTML5, CSS, virtual machines, design, creativity and much more!”

• When: Feb. 18-19, 2013
• Where: Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Felix Meritas)

An Event Apart Atlanta 2013
“An intensely educational learning session for passionate practitioners of standards-based Web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference you’ve been waiting for.”

• When: Feb. 18-20, 2013
• Where: Atlanta, GA (InterContinental)

Mobile Trends Conference & Awards 2013
“This conference is dedicated to mobile technologies and techniques. Mobile Trends Conference is two days – various issues – two groups of customers!”

• When: Feb. 21-22, 2013
• Where: Krakow, Poland

The Story
“The Story is a one-day conference about stories and story-telling.”

• When: Feb. 22, 2013
• Where: London, UK (Conway Hall)

jQuery Europe 2013
“International speakers and Web pioneers show the newest trends and techniques for Web, apps and smart TV development with jQuery. Two days of conference with awesome sessions, one additional day of jQuery training and lots of opportunities to meet and greet with developers from all Europe.”

• When: Feb. 22-23, 2013
• Where: Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna

ConFoo Conference
“ConFoo is a non for profit, multi-technology conference. We bring the learning experience to a whole new level.”

• When: Feb. 25-Mar. 1, 2013
• Where: Montreal, Canada

SXSW Interactive 2013
“The 2013 SXSW® Interactive Festival will feature five days of compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology, scores of exciting networking events hosted by industry leaders, the SXSW Trade Show and an unbeatable lineup of special programs showcasing the best new digital works, video games and innovative ideas the international community has to offer.”

• When: Mar. 8-12, 2013
• Where: Austin, TX

More Links for Keeping Up

Here are a few links that will also help you keep up with the newly scheduled design and/or development conferences being shared through Lanyard that have been sorted out by category:

• Design
• Web Design
• Web Development
• HTML5
• CSS
• JavaScript
• UX Design Conferences
• User Experience
• Mobile

Where Are You Going?

How many of these conferences are coming to an area near you? Or for that matter, how many are luring you to the area in which they are happening? If you plan on attending any of these or other Web design and development conferences (or workshops) this fall, or have attended any of them already, please share your thoughts with us in the comments section below! Perhaps you’ll be able to meet the members of the Smashing Team this year? It would be our pleasure!

We sincerely thank Louis Lazaris and Robert Bowen for helping us to collect this overview of upcoming events!

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