Thursday, 6:00pm
18 June 2026
Submit your motion design
various designers
Liza Enebeis
Studio Dumbar
Connor Campbell
YONK
Tim Rodenbröker
Koos Breen
Graphic design
Events and exhibitions
Motion graphics
Be part of DEMO 2027 and send in your work before the 19 July deadline
The good people behind DEMO (see Eye 100) are organising another edition of their ‘Design in motion festival’ for 2027. On Thursday 28 January next year, the world’s largest motion design festival will take over public screens in sixteen cities worldwide, including Amsterdam (where it began in 2019), Antwerp, Tokyo, Thessaloniki, Warsaw, Madrid, Barcelona, Vienna and Vancouver.
Adjacent. Image from DEMO at Global Amsterdam, 2025. Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn. Top. DEMO open call graphic.
The festival will extend to more cities, showcasing non-commercial motion graphics (from designers worldwide) on OOH [out of home] terminals normally used for advertising. The deadline for submitting your work to DEMO (via demofestival.com) is Sunday 19 July 2026.
DEMO display at the HOOG Catharijne shopping centre in Utrecht 2025. Photo: Alex Heuvink.
One of the themes of this edition is ‘The Bright Side’, for which designers are invited to send work ‘that explores hope, offers new perspectives, and tells unexpected stories’.
‘Amersfoort’, animated display by Studio Dumbar, commissioned by Exterion Media, at DEMO, Amsterdam Central Station,
7 November 2019.
Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn.
In Eye 100, Eye editor John L. Walters asked Liza Enebeis how DEMO came to be, and she replied: ‘The idea started in October 2017 when Studio Dumbar took part in a poster exhibition … We had the idea for a more ‘organic’ exhibition, to show motion graphics work, some of which goes into these OOH terminals, but also the sort of work you never see unless it’s on Instagram. We thought it would be great to do an exhibition not just for other designers, but in a public space …’
DEMO identity and ‘Cities in Motion’, 2019. The custom variable typeface changes according to a DrawBot script (written in Python) that animates every word.
DEMO’s curatorial team comprises Liza Enebeis (Studio Dumbar/DEPT®); Connor Campbell (Daisy Chain Studio); Niels van der Donk and Vikki Young (YONK); designer and educator Tim Rodenbröker; and interdisciplinary designer Koos Breen.
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