Over 800 of you attended Dribbble Meetups in July—with 11 meetups in 7 countries. Odessa had an epic meetup with over 200 designers and speakers, Orlando Dribbblers hosted an Analog Playoff that benefited the OneOrlando Fund, and Seattle designed and built an OSX application to let attendees build their own custom coffee avatar.
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Kyiv, Ukraine @ MEAT Studies
“We had a great Kyiv Dribbble Meetup with almost 200 designers in attendance! Our main aim was to connect designers, giving them a good portion of practice tips, creative fun and a lot of networking. We had four lectures starting with prototyping in Framer and ending with personal designer experience. We also had a lot of creative competitions and enthralling Dribbble debates. Our designer school MEAT Studies was thrilled to be the host for this meetup and we are looking for more. Thanks to all the guests and our sponsors for helping to grow our design community even further.”
Longmont, CO @ Neon Space Lab
“We had about 100 people attend our first Dribbble Meetup at Neon Space Lab as part of the Creative Crawl. Designers from Boulder all the way to Denver made it out for the event. The ‘Design a Trumpée’ contest we ran was great fun with lots of entertaining submissions.”
Newcastle, UK @ Campus North
“The inaugural Newcastle Dribbble Meetup was a huge success. We had four amazing and inspiring talks from four insanely talented designers. Kicking things off was local designer and entrepreneur Naomi Atkinson speaking about the struggles of losing clients and starting her own business. Followed by an awesome look into the life and work of talented sign writer and hand letterer Ashley Willerton. Karl Bell from Wonderstuff Studio gave a thought provoking talk about the value of design. Wrapping things up was illustrator and designer Vic Bell who blew everyone away with her incredibly honest account of her journey into the world design.
We gave away hundreds of beer mats, stickers and buttons, enjoyed beer and pizza and made a few new friends. Huge thanks to Florin Diaconu, Barry McCalvey & Damian Kidd for everything and to all of our sponsors, especially Moltin.”
See all the photos from the Newcastle Dribbble Meetup.
Savannah, GA @ Twin Forrest
“Savannah’s Dribbble Meetup was amazing! We had a great crowd and a great time. We had a few games lined up and plenty of PBR to go around. This isn’t the last Dribble Meetup Savannah will have. Huge thanks to our sponsors and Dribbble.”
Montreal, Canada @ Shopify
“A little over a hundred designers gathered in the Shopify office for our 7th Dribbble Meetup. People got a chance to chat and grab some food before hearing two great talks from local designers. Christian Poschmann from Metalab talked to us about how prototyping can make us better designers. Elyse Viotto from Shopify, talked about her passion for lettering and how to sustain a creative project for 100 days. To close the night, everyone got to eat some delicious cupcakes with pink icing (of course!) and Elyse was kind enough to give some attendees a quick workshop to help them get started with lettering.”
See all the MTL Dribbble Meetup photos on Facebook.
Mexico City, Mexico @ Cardumen
“In what was our biggest turn up to date, July’s Mexico City Dribbble Meetup was really fun and interesting. Over 30 people showed up to the event hosted at Cardumen, a awesome coworking space. The meetup centered around the hype surrounding Pokémon Go, and an analysis around its UI. Is it a game? Is it an app? Is it something in between? Is the user experience selfish and idealistic for thinking that all countries have people who can walk around with no problems? Is the reason why there are only 142 Pokémon available that the demographic who grew up with just those Pokémon is the one who can spend money AND doesn’t have many financial obligations? (kids, school, etc.)
We we’re also pleased to have Folkensio, a graffiti artist-turned-graphic designer with a passion for video games and retro atmospheres who is part of the brain behind barcade.vg, join us. Folkensio talked about what’s it like being part of the video game movement in Mexico, as well as the challenges of creating visually appealing but bandwith-heavy content. After the session, we had the opportunity to network and have a couple of beers. It was a great meetup and we can’t wait for next month’s event!”
Odessa, Ukraine @ The Art Center of Vera Holodnaya
Odessa had their annual Dribbble Meetup and it was epic. They had speakers from B2B Soft, MacPaw, Evolvice, Snapchat, and more! Big thanks to Provectus for organizing! Watch the video highlights and see all the photos from the Odessa Dribbble Meetup on Facebook.
Corvallis, OR @ Madison Ave. Collective
“Our first ever Corvallis Dribbble Meetup was a great success and an amazing experience! Participants from throughout the Willamette Valley came together to talk art and design, participate in product demos, and enjoy a pint (or a few!) of the PNW’s finest microbrews. We’d like to give a huge shoutout to Foundry Coworking and the Madison Ave. Collective for sponsoring and hosting the event. Big thanks also go to Dribbble, Sticker Mule, and Sketch for continually being amazing sponsors. We’re already hard at work planning next year’s event and look forward to seeing even more friendly faces in 2017.”
Seattle, WA @ Substantial
“In our fourth Dribbble Meetup here at Substantial, we continued our theme of celebrating all things Seattle (this time focusing on coffee) by inviting designers into our space to hang out, connect, and just have fun together. We were thrilled to host about 60 designers this time with custom coffee swag, coffee cakes, and more. We also designed and built an OSX application to let people build their own custom coffee avatar as a fun side experience. We can’t wait to host again for our design community in Seattle, but are on a bit of a hiatus until our new office space is complete. To keep up on our next events, follow us on Twitter at @Substantial.”
Orlando, FL @ Purple, Rock, Scissors
“A month after the unfortunate Pulse incident, we partnered with Purple, Rock, Scissors Community Manager, Katelyne McKenzie, to bring a healing session of creativity with our first Vector Face Off challenge. Participants came together to create posters that evoked the themes of Orlando Strong and Orlando United.
Get to know our challenge winners: Orlando United Poster by Brian Nutt, Orlando Pop-Eye by Mark Unger, and Orlando Strong for Dribbble by Arliana Oráa.
Winning designs will be available for sale this Fall. Full proceeds will continue to support the OneOrlando Fund.
Our meetups are free and open to all creatives thanks to the support of our national and local sponsors. Special thanks to Sylke Lopez for capturing the event and Katherine Delorme for sharing her experience of the event on Medium.
Join our August Dribbble Meetup is this week and follow us on Twitter for updates!”
See all the photos from the Orlando Dribbble Meetup.
Düsseldorf, Germany @ Capitol Theater
“The Behance Dribbble NRW Community helped to organize the Adobe Creative Meet Up & Networking Conference that took place in Düsseldorf’s Capitol Theater on July 2nd. The event not only featured Behance Portfolio Reviews, but also the Adobe Creative Jam. The Creative Jam featured 7 teams: BBDO, Zier², Havas World Woldwide, Betty & Betty, DDB, Tomeros Grafik Atelier and Ubisoft. The Creative Jam was judged by Jens Kellersmann from Wacom and Thomas Junk from Demodern / Art Directors Club Germany.
The audience was inspired by speakers including: Art Director Kenneth Shinabery, Photographer / Storyteller Thomas Herbrich, Ubisoft’s Edgar Bittencourt, Adobe Worldwide Creative Cloud Evangelist Rufus Deuchler, Digital Artist / High-End Regtoucher Dom Quichotte and the creative team of Manuel Mittelpunkt & Matthias Grund.
Attendees had the chance to learn from the experts in the Adobe Make It Area, experience the Samsung 4D Virtual Reality Chairs, view hologram technology provided by blueBox and witness photographer Eric Alexander Lichtenschedit’s Black Room! One could also view the art gallery featuring the top 20 artists from NRW in the art gallery, some of which were highlighted in large scale illuminated frames provided by WallStyle/CCS Digital.
Adobe shared the event via three Facebook Live Streams on the Adobe Deutschland website.”
See all the photos from the event.
Meetups
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