--- title: Design festival OFFF – “Let’s Feed the Future” description: Every year since 2001, creatives from different design disciplines meet and share their ideas and innovations about digital, interaction and print design in the design festival called OFFF. This festival was previously held in different countries, but has now found its home in Barcelona at the Design Museum. For three days the festival wa […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/design-festival-offf-lets-feed-the-future?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Grazina Borosko](https://canonical.com/blog/author/grazina-borosko "More about Grazina Borosko") 30 June 2016 # Design festival OFFF – “Let’s Feed the Future” [conference](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/conference) [Design](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/design) --- Share the article Every year since 2001, creatives from different design disciplines meet and share their ideas and innovations about digital, interaction and print design in the design festival called OFFF. This festival was previously held in different countries, but has now found its home in Barcelona at the Design Museum. For three days the festival was jam-packed full of inspirational ideas and speakers such as Paula Scher, Tony Brook, Joshua Davis and many more. *OFFF  space in the Design Musem* ## *OFFF 2016 book and program* ## ## What is the festival about? The festival gives a great overview of design trends, work processes and implementation practices, as well as generating ideas and inspiration from around the world. A festival organizer claimed that: “it is more than just a Festival hosting innovative and international speakers, it is more than a meeting point for all talents around the world to collaborate, it is more than feeding the future. OFFF is a community inviting all those who are eager to learn to participate and get inspired by a three-day journey of conferences, workshops, activities, and performances.” *Ustwo* *Hey studio* ## A word of advice… Before coming to the festival make sure you have a list of speakers you would like to hear, because there are 50 different talks taking place covering a wide scope of topics. It was interesting to hear designers sharing their experiences in design, such as self-initiated projects, dealing with clients, social life versus private, time management and working in a team and solo difficulties. *Non-Format* *Joshua Davis design* ## Why you should go to the festival Being surrounded by creative people for a three days helps you look at your work from the different perspectives. It is always healthy to leave your comfort zone and talk to other creators to see what kind of issues other people have, and how they are solving them. There’s no wrong or right way in the creative process. There are different ways which might work for you, and some that don’t. Inspiring talks give you energy and make you believe that anything is possible to achieve; you just need to do it! *Danny Sangra* [Get in touch Interested in running Ubuntu in your organization?](https://ubuntu.com/about/contact-us/form) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/dataprivacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### Challenges designers face in open source (and how to fix them)](https://canonical.com/blog/challenges-designers-face-in-open-source-and-how-to-fix-them) Open source powers up to 90% of modern software, yet many projects lack usability. Canonical’s Design team surveyed 115 cross-functional professionals to uncover the 4 core... [Kola Ojoodide](https://canonical.com/blog/author/kola-ojoodide) 26 June 2026 [### Why web engineering is great](https://canonical.com/blog/why-web-engineering-is-great) Hi, I’m Johann! I’m an engineering manager in Canonical’s web team. For the larger part of my 15 years of work experience as engineer, I’ve been working in web development.... [Johann Wolf](https://canonical.com/blog/author/johannwolf) 27 April 2026 [### Canonical’s recipe for High Performance Computing](https://canonical.com/blog/canonicals-recipe-for-high-performance-computing) In essence, High Performance Computing (HPC) is quite simple. Speed and scale. In practice, the concept is quite complex and hard to achieve. It is not dissimilar to what... [Igor Ljubuncic](https://canonical.com/blog/author/igorljubuncic) 24 January 2024 [### Web team – hack week 2023](https://canonical.com/blog/web-team-hack-week-2023) Today, around 96% of software projects utilize open source in some way. The web team here at Canonical is passionate about Open source. We lead with an open-by-default approach... [Anthony Dillon](https://canonical.com/blog/author/ya-bo-ng) 25 October 2023