Programme
22 sessions
Fri 14 + Sat 15 May
All times Lisbon (WEST)
The schedule
The schedule
Two days, four tracks, three rooms and a river deck. Tap + on anything that looks good. Your picks collect in My agenda, bottom of the screen, ready to download to your calendar.
Interface
Systems
Type & Image
Futures
Commons
Day 1
Friday, 14 May
08:30 — 23:00
08:30
until
09:30
Commons
Break
·
The Commons
Doors, coffee and badge pickup
Pick up your badge and your printed programme, find the good coffee (left of the stairs) and say hello to someone you only know by their avatar.
08:30
until
09:30
Doors, coffee and badge pickup
Pick up your badge and your printed programme, find the good coffee (left of the stairs) and say hello to someone you only know by their avatar.
08:30
until
09:30
Commons
Break
·
The Commons
Doors, coffee and badge pickup
Pick up your badge and your printed programme, find the good coffee (left of the stairs) and say hello to someone you only know by their avatar.
09:30
until
10:00
Futures
Keynote
·
Main Stage
Opening: the Overprint manifesto
Inês Valadares
Why a design conference should feel like a printed thing: physical, a little imperfect and impossible to scroll past. Inês opens the eighth edition with ten rules we keep breaking.
09:30
until
10:00
Opening: the Overprint manifesto
Inês Valadares
Why a design conference should feel like a printed thing: physical, a little imperfect and impossible to scroll past. Inês opens the eighth edition with ten rules we keep breaking.
09:30
until
10:00
Futures
Keynote
·
Main Stage
Opening: the Overprint manifesto
Inês Valadares
Why a design conference should feel like a printed thing: physical, a little imperfect and impossible to scroll past. Inês opens the eighth edition with ten rules we keep breaking.
10:00
until
10:45
Interface
Talk
·
Main Stage
Interfaces that admit they are guessing
Priya Raman
Six million people use Tessellate’s assistant. Priya shows the confidence patterns, undo paths and plain-language hedges that doubled trust, and the three that backfired.
10:00
until
10:45
Interfaces that admit they are guessing
Priya Raman
Six million people use Tessellate’s assistant. Priya shows the confidence patterns, undo paths and plain-language hedges that doubled trust, and the three that backfired.
10:00
until
10:45
Interface
Talk
·
Main Stage
Interfaces that admit they are guessing
Priya Raman
Six million people use Tessellate’s assistant. Priya shows the confidence patterns, undo paths and plain-language hedges that doubled trust, and the three that backfired.
10:45
until
11:30
Type & Image
Talk
·
Studio B
Shipping a type family in 2027
Mirei Sato
From first sketch to variable font on a subway platform: the tools, the spacing tests and the 4-point problem. With real proofs, printed and passed around the room.
10:45
until
11:30
Shipping a type family in 2027
Mirei Sato
From first sketch to variable font on a subway platform: the tools, the spacing tests and the 4-point problem. With real proofs, printed and passed around the room.
10:45
until
11:30
Type & Image
Talk
·
Studio B
Shipping a type family in 2027
Mirei Sato
From first sketch to variable font on a subway platform: the tools, the spacing tests and the 4-point problem. With real proofs, printed and passed around the room.
11:30
until
12:00
Commons
Break
·
The Commons
Coffee and the hallway track
Thirty minutes. Pastéis de nata arrive at 11:35 and are gone by 11:41. Plan accordingly.
11:30
until
12:00
Coffee and the hallway track
Thirty minutes. Pastéis de nata arrive at 11:35 and are gone by 11:41. Plan accordingly.
11:30
until
12:00
Commons
Break
·
The Commons
Coffee and the hallway track
Thirty minutes. Pastéis de nata arrive at 11:35 and are gone by 11:41. Plan accordingly.
12:00
until
12:45
Systems
Talk
·
Main Stage
Your design system is a product. Fund it like one.
Dana Kowalczyk
How Parcel&Co went from 1,400 components to 90, got a real budget and a roadmap, and stopped answering “is this the latest button?” in Slack.
12:00
until
12:45
Your design system is a product. Fund it like one.
Dana Kowalczyk
How Parcel&Co went from 1,400 components to 90, got a real budget and a roadmap, and stopped answering “is this the latest button?” in Slack.
12:00
until
12:45
Systems
Talk
·
Main Stage
Your design system is a product. Fund it like one.
Dana Kowalczyk
How Parcel&Co went from 1,400 components to 90, got a real budget and a roadmap, and stopped answering “is this the latest button?” in Slack.
12:45
until
14:00
Commons
Break
·
River Deck
Long lunch at the Mercado
Lunch is on us at the Mercado stalls next door. Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options are marked in your programme.
12:45
until
14:00
Long lunch at the Mercado
Lunch is on us at the Mercado stalls next door. Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options are marked in your programme.
12:45
until
14:00
Commons
Break
·
River Deck
Long lunch at the Mercado
Lunch is on us at the Mercado stalls next door. Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options are marked in your programme.
14:00
until
15:30
Interface
Workshop
·
Workshop Room
Workshop: motion with springs, not keyframes
Rafael Montenegro
Bring a laptop. In ninety minutes you will rebuild three classic transitions with spring physics and learn why stiffness and damping beat duration and easing. 40 seats.
14:00
until
15:30
Workshop: motion with springs, not keyframes
Rafael Montenegro
Bring a laptop. In ninety minutes you will rebuild three classic transitions with spring physics and learn why stiffness and damping beat duration and easing. 40 seats.
14:00
until
15:30
Interface
Workshop
·
Workshop Room
Workshop: motion with springs, not keyframes
Rafael Montenegro
Bring a laptop. In ninety minutes you will rebuild three classic transitions with spring physics and learn why stiffness and damping beat duration and easing. 40 seats.
15:30
until
16:15
Systems
Talk
·
Studio B
Tokens all the way down
Theo Okafor
A token pipeline that survives three rebrands, two dark modes and one acquisition. Theo walks through the naming, the build step and the mistakes worth copying.
15:30
until
16:15
Tokens all the way down
Theo Okafor
A token pipeline that survives three rebrands, two dark modes and one acquisition. Theo walks through the naming, the build step and the mistakes worth copying.
15:30
until
16:15
Systems
Talk
·
Studio B
Tokens all the way down
Theo Okafor
A token pipeline that survives three rebrands, two dark modes and one acquisition. Theo walks through the naming, the build step and the mistakes worth copying.
16:15
until
17:00
Futures
Talk
·
Main Stage
Field notes: designing for the slow internet
Jonah Reyes
Offline-first tools for health workers in four countries, measured in kilobytes and battery percent. What Jonah learned shipping software over SMS.
16:15
until
17:00
Field notes: designing for the slow internet
Jonah Reyes
Offline-first tools for health workers in four countries, measured in kilobytes and battery percent. What Jonah learned shipping software over SMS.
16:15
until
17:00
Futures
Talk
·
Main Stage
Field notes: designing for the slow internet
Jonah Reyes
Offline-first tools for health workers in four countries, measured in kilobytes and battery percent. What Jonah learned shipping software over SMS.
17:00
until
17:45
Type & Image
Talk
·
Studio B
Riso, risk and the joy of misregistration
Lena Hartmann
Thirty thousand posters on two riso machines. Lena on why imperfection is the new premium and how to fake it convincingly on screen.
17:00
until
17:45
Riso, risk and the joy of misregistration
Lena Hartmann
Thirty thousand posters on two riso machines. Lena on why imperfection is the new premium and how to fake it convincingly on screen.
17:00
until
17:45
Type & Image
Talk
·
Studio B
Riso, risk and the joy of misregistration
Lena Hartmann
Thirty thousand posters on two riso machines. Lena on why imperfection is the new premium and how to fake it convincingly on screen.
17:45
until
18:30
Futures
Panel
·
Main Stage
Panel: who is accountable when the model designs?
Amara Osei
Amara Osei hosts Priya Raman and Theo Okafor on authorship, review and blame when half the interface is generated. Questions from the floor, no slides.
17:45
until
18:30
Panel: who is accountable when the model designs?
Amara Osei
Amara Osei hosts Priya Raman and Theo Okafor on authorship, review and blame when half the interface is generated. Questions from the floor, no slides.
17:45
until
18:30
Futures
Panel
·
Main Stage
Panel: who is accountable when the model designs?
Amara Osei
Amara Osei hosts Priya Raman and Theo Okafor on authorship, review and blame when half the interface is generated. Questions from the floor, no slides.
19:30
until
23:00
Commons
Social
·
River Deck
Opening party on the river
Sunset, a riso print station, a DJ from Marés and the Tagus. Your badge is your ticket. Last ferry back at 23:40.
19:30
until
23:00
Opening party on the river
Sunset, a riso print station, a DJ from Marés and the Tagus. Your badge is your ticket. Last ferry back at 23:40.
19:30
until
23:00
Commons
Social
·
River Deck
Opening party on the river
Sunset, a riso print station, a DJ from Marés and the Tagus. Your badge is your ticket. Last ferry back at 23:40.
Day 2
Saturday, 15 May
09:00 — 17:30
09:00
until
09:30
Commons
Break
·
The Commons
Coffee and morning pages
Slow start. Coffee, a notebook from our friends at Monotone Paper Co. and twenty quiet minutes to write down what stuck from yesterday.
09:00
until
09:30
Coffee and morning pages
Slow start. Coffee, a notebook from our friends at Monotone Paper Co. and twenty quiet minutes to write down what stuck from yesterday.
09:00
until
09:30
Commons
Break
·
The Commons
Coffee and morning pages
Slow start. Coffee, a notebook from our friends at Monotone Paper Co. and twenty quiet minutes to write down what stuck from yesterday.
09:30
until
10:15
Interface
Talk
·
Main Stage
Designing with the grain of the browser
Theo Okafor
Container queries, view transitions and the layout features you are still faking in JavaScript. Fewer dependencies, faster pages, happier designers.
09:30
until
10:15
Designing with the grain of the browser
Theo Okafor
Container queries, view transitions and the layout features you are still faking in JavaScript. Fewer dependencies, faster pages, happier designers.
09:30
until
10:15
Interface
Talk
·
Main Stage
Designing with the grain of the browser
Theo Okafor
Container queries, view transitions and the layout features you are still faking in JavaScript. Fewer dependencies, faster pages, happier designers.
10:15
until
11:00
Systems
Talk
·
Studio B
Research is a team sport
Amara Osei
How Fjell made research a shared habit across 14 product teams, with a repository people actually open and a weekly ritual that takes 20 minutes.
10:15
until
11:00
Research is a team sport
Amara Osei
How Fjell made research a shared habit across 14 product teams, with a repository people actually open and a weekly ritual that takes 20 minutes.
10:15
until
11:00
Systems
Talk
·
Studio B
Research is a team sport
Amara Osei
How Fjell made research a shared habit across 14 product teams, with a repository people actually open and a weekly ritual that takes 20 minutes.
11:00
until
12:30
Type & Image
Workshop
·
Workshop Room
Workshop: a variable font in ninety minutes
Mirei Sato
Draw six letters, interpolate two masters and export a working variable font you can use in your next project. Tablets provided. 30 seats.
11:00
until
12:30
Workshop: a variable font in ninety minutes
Mirei Sato
Draw six letters, interpolate two masters and export a working variable font you can use in your next project. Tablets provided. 30 seats.
11:00
until
12:30
Type & Image
Workshop
·
Workshop Room
Workshop: a variable font in ninety minutes
Mirei Sato
Draw six letters, interpolate two masters and export a working variable font you can use in your next project. Tablets provided. 30 seats.
12:30
until
13:45
Commons
Break
·
River Deck
Lunch and portfolio swap
Bring something printed: a zine, a poster, a sketchbook. Leave with someone else’s.
12:30
until
13:45
Lunch and portfolio swap
Bring something printed: a zine, a poster, a sketchbook. Leave with someone else’s.
12:30
until
13:45
Commons
Break
·
River Deck
Lunch and portfolio swap
Bring something printed: a zine, a poster, a sketchbook. Leave with someone else’s.
13:45
until
14:30
Interface
Talk
·
Main Stage
Creative code as a design tool
Rafael Montenegro
Generative carnival posters, a motion library used in 2,000 projects and the case for designers who write a little code.
13:45
until
14:30
Creative code as a design tool
Rafael Montenegro
Generative carnival posters, a motion library used in 2,000 projects and the case for designers who write a little code.
13:45
until
14:30
Interface
Talk
·
Main Stage
Creative code as a design tool
Rafael Montenegro
Generative carnival posters, a motion library used in 2,000 projects and the case for designers who write a little code.
14:30
until
15:15
Systems
Talk
·
Studio B
The four-day design system
Dana Kowalczyk
A playbook for teams of three: what to build first, what to never build and how to know when you are done for now.
14:30
until
15:15
The four-day design system
Dana Kowalczyk
A playbook for teams of three: what to build first, what to never build and how to know when you are done for now.
14:30
until
15:15
Systems
Talk
·
Studio B
The four-day design system
Dana Kowalczyk
A playbook for teams of three: what to build first, what to never build and how to know when you are done for now.
15:15
until
16:00
Type & Image
Talk
·
Main Stage
Posters for people who scroll
Lena Hartmann
Festival identities that move. How Kinetik designs a single system for a wheat-paste wall, a phone screen and a 30-metre LED facade.
15:15
until
16:00
Posters for people who scroll
Lena Hartmann
Festival identities that move. How Kinetik designs a single system for a wheat-paste wall, a phone screen and a 30-metre LED facade.
15:15
until
16:00
Type & Image
Talk
·
Main Stage
Posters for people who scroll
Lena Hartmann
Festival identities that move. How Kinetik designs a single system for a wheat-paste wall, a phone screen and a 30-metre LED facade.
16:00
until
16:45
Futures
Talk
·
Studio B
Small software, long futures
Jonah Reyes
Software that will still run in 2040. Notes on durability, repairability and the ethics of the forced update.
16:00
until
16:45
Small software, long futures
Jonah Reyes
Software that will still run in 2040. Notes on durability, repairability and the ethics of the forced update.
16:00
until
16:45
Futures
Talk
·
Studio B
Small software, long futures
Jonah Reyes
Software that will still run in 2040. Notes on durability, repairability and the ethics of the forced update.
16:45
until
17:30
Futures
Keynote
·
Main Stage
Closing keynote: print it, then fix it
Inês Valadares
Inês closes Overprint 2027 with the studio habits that keep work honest, and announces the city for 2028.
16:45
until
17:30
Closing keynote: print it, then fix it
Inês Valadares
Inês closes Overprint 2027 with the studio habits that keep work honest, and announces the city for 2028.
16:45
until
17:30
Futures
Keynote
·
Main Stage
Closing keynote: print it, then fix it
Inês Valadares
Inês closes Overprint 2027 with the studio habits that keep work honest, and announces the city for 2028.
Two days. Four tracks. One river. Come and make something worth printing.
Armazém 16, Rua do Açúcar 16, 1950-010 Lisbon, Portugal
Overprint
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Two days. Four tracks. One river. Come and make something worth printing.
Armazém 16, Rua do Açúcar 16, 1950-010 Lisbon, Portugal
Overprint
© 2027 Overprint. Printed in Lisbon.
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Two days. Four tracks. One river. Come and make something worth printing.
Armazém 16, Rua do Açúcar 16, 1950-010 Lisbon, Portugal
Overprint
© 2027 Overprint. Printed in Lisbon.
Code of conduct · Privacy · Accessibility