Three days of typography, riso, synth-pop, plotter art, and people who still believe a poster can yell at you. Held inside a converted Milan tram depot with terrible coffee and incredible chairs.
Nine flagship sessions across three days. Talks bleed into workshops bleed into late-night print parties. Wear shoes you can stand in.
A walking tour through the showroom that started it all, with the plywood scuffs to prove it. Falconi argues that "good taste" is the most expensive lie design ever sold itself.
Bring three hand-drawn layers, leave with a print run of 25. Includes fluorescent pink, cornflower, and the one teal nobody can colour-match.
On the case for maximalism in stationery, school supplies, and the covers of every textbook you ever wanted to throw across a room.
A serious talk about unserious shapes, and why the company logo for your dental practice probably needs at least one zigzag.
From bathroom floors to bus seats — the speckle pattern is the un-killable visual idea. We map a hundred years of it across textile, ceramic, and digital design.
Solder a tiny gantry, hand it a SVG, watch it draw a manifesto on newsprint. Take the plotter home.
A 90-minute reel of typewriter ads, calculator commercials, and product films from a moment when computing was supposed to look fun.
A talk for web designers tired of the soft-rounded-card industrial complex. Fixed pixels. Hard edges. Fonts with personality disorders.
A live-printed closing party with three risographs running, two synth-pop sets, and a closing toast in unreasonable glassware.
/ / THE WAVELENGTH MANIFESTO, ART. 1
DESIGN is NOT furniture
— it is a
SHOUT
across
the room.
We refuse the beige.
We refuse the tasteful.
We refuse the round corner.
Five people who will probably argue with each other on stage. We're counting on it.
The full program is loud, this slice is louder. Times are local. Rooms are colour-coded so you don't get lost — much.
| TIME | SESSION | WHO | ROOM |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Coffee & Croissant Geometry | — with the bakers from Pasticceria Otto | FOYER |
| 09:30 | Squiggles as a Design System | Jonas Vidmar | STAGE A |
| 11:00 | Terrazzo, Tile, and the Joy of Speckle | Studio Picnic | STAGE C |
| 12:30 | Lunch (loud salads, weird focaccia) | — catered by Mensa Mensa | FOYER |
| 14:30 | Build a Plotter Pen-Plotter | Hatsue Aoyama | MAKER WING |
| 16:00 | Open Critique: Bring a Bad Logo | — hosted by the Falconi studio | STAGE A |
| 18:00 | Aperitivo on the Tram Tracks | — sponsored by Campari, obviously | DEPOT FLOOR |
| 21:00 | Synth Set: HOTEL FUTURA (live) | — support from DJ MOIRÉ | STAGE C |
Eight things from the festival store. All ship from Milan in a cardboard tube with at least three stickers we forgot to charge for.
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