HOW Design Live 2023
June 5-7, 2023 • Gaylord Opryland Resort, Nashville, TN
Upcoming Events
June 5-7, 2023 | Nashville
HOW Design Live is where inspiration, community, and creativity converge in a 3-day event that you can’t afford to miss. Become part of a creative community that embraces every attendee, validates your work, and empowers you to do great things. HOW Design Live offers the creative inspiration to refuel your passion combined with the practical knowledge you need to achieve and advance in your career through incredible breakout sessions, keynotes, and workshops.
And don’t forget to add our pre-conference on June 4, HOW Women Lead to your registration.
Past Events
June 4, 2023 | Nashville
A One-Day Summit For Female Creative Business Leaders.
HOW Women Lead is the first-ever all-women summit for creative business leaders who are looking to uplevel their skills, position themselves for bigger roles and new challenges, and change the playing field for other women like you.
October 20, 2022 | New York City
Dieline Conference 2022 is a high level one-day hybrid conference that was part of Advertising Week New York, a 4-day celebration of all things commerce and creativity with over 500 speakers and 200 hybrid events.
October 11-12, 2022 | Virtual Summit
The HOW Design Creative Leadership Summit, took place October 11-12, as an intimate virtual gathering that focused on the emerging challenges faced by leaders in design, product and engineering roles. These leaders shared insights, ideas and tactics that they’ve implemented successfully to lead their teams to drive results.
September 14-15, 2022 | Virtual Summit
If the money side of your freelancing business stresses you out, this virtual summit for creative freelancers is for you. We covered everything from how to price your services, to perfecting the money conversation so you can charge what you’re worth, as well as how to write winning proposals that seal the deal. On September 14-15, 2022, 2 half days of speakers and freelancers shared what they’ve learned so you don’t have to make the mistakes yourself. If you didn’t get to attend this great summit, we are offering the session recordings and speaker resources for $79. Click the button below to learn more.
Snaps from HOW Design Live 2022
HOW Design Live at a glance
HOW Design Live has been a destination for creative professionals for over 30 years – but don’t just take our word for it.
— Ashlee Ritschdorff | Graphic Designer, Federal Signal
— Joe Stern | Creative Director NAVC
— Frank Dyszler | Web Designer, Henry Schein, Inc.
— Julie Lyrek | Freelancer, Lyrek Creative
The Community
HOW Design Live is all about connections. Every year, relationships form organically among HOW Design Live attendees, and even among attendees and speakers—relationships that lead to opportunities and lifelong friendships.
The power of the HOW Community is massive, inspiring, welcoming and easy to join. You’ll find your tribe at HOW: a core group of fellow creatives who call themselves “HOWies.
Thanks to our Sponsors, Exhibitors & Promotional Partners!
EXHIBITORS
EXHIBITING PARTNERS
PROMOTIONAL PARTNERS & MEDIA SPONSORS
HOW DESIGN CONTENT
VIDEO VAULT
We’ve opened up the HOW Design Live video vault to share some of our most viewed and top-rated sessions from the past 5 years with you for free. These videos have only been shared with registered attendees in the past, so we hope you enjoy!
DIGITAL SESSIONS
HOW’s Digital Sessions bring the conference sessions which we have all grown to love online, allowing for both live viewing with Q&A, and on-demand viewing. View the catalog, and sign up for updates to receive reminders about future HOW Digital Sessions!