Latin America’s Design Festival (LADFEST 2016) fills Lima’s agenda with three days of events and activities from 11th to 13th February 2016.

The festival consists of one day of workshops and two days of conferences celebrating graphic design and visual communication with the aim of inspiring, educating and promoting Latin American Design.

LADFEST is the key to spreading graphic design and visual arts culture in the continent and supporting the design scene, creating a community space for over 700 professionals, students and enthusiasts while providing new ideas and promoting the highest standards for the field.

The main event of LADFEST is the two day series of conferences held in UNIFE University, which will bring together great figures of the national and international scene sharing cutting edge projects and innovations. This second edition will count with key representatives of Graphic Design, Editorial Design, Art Direction, Illustration, Packaging, Branding, Advertising, Street Art, Typography, Calligraphy, Lettering, Animation, Art, 3D Design and UX/Web Design.

LAD is an association that works to promote design in Latin America. It wishes to fill Lima and Latin America’s agenda with events and activities, such as competitions and exhibitions, designed to promote a culture of design with an educational focus to inspire all designers and visual communicators.

The following artists will participate in this 2nd edition:

• Stefan Sagmeister (USA)
• Yuko Shimizu (Japan)
• Anton & Irene (Estonia-Peru)
• Stockholm Design Lab (Sweden)
• Bicicleta Sem Freio (Brazil)
• Six & Five (Argentina)
• Seb Lester (UK)
• Atlas (Spain)
• PS.2 (Brazil)
• Ken-Tsai Lee (Taiwan)
• Lucho Correa (Colombia)
• Jesse Ragan (USA)
• Tridimage (Argentina)

Tickets to the conferences are available here.