Hasta La Ideas

After School Club (ASC) is a design festival built for instructors. It’s not only free, it’s held at the University of Art & Design Offenbach for one week during their April semester break. Granted, its location in Offenbach am Main, a town just outside Frankfurt, doesn’t exactly make it convenient for those of us west of the Atlantic, but once you check out the line up of speakers—a group of German, French and Czech designers you’re not likely to see anywhere else—you might just be inclined to book a flight.

Attendees will hear lectures and symposiums led by graphic designers Mirko Borsche, Niklaus Troxler and Stefan Marx, the art directors at Haw-lin, designer Alexander Lis and Eike Konig, who’s a professor at Offenbach and heads the “multi-disciplinary creative hub” Horte. Konig is also leading the team that’s putting on the festival, which means that this is a design conference from the perspective of educators, not businessmen – an important distinction made clear in the recent New York Magazine op-ed on TED and the many conferences it’s spawned. Plus, look at this video ASC made—how could this not be fun?

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