Us By Night 2026 | Antwerp, Belgium

Us By Night is an immersive, nocturnal creative festival held in Antwerp, bringing together design, creativity, and inspiration in a unique setting. The event blends talks, workshops, installations, and a lively night marketplace, creating a vibrant atmosphere where attendees can experience art, technology, and culture in one space.

Hosted September 24-26, 2026, the festival features an international lineup of inspiring speakers from various creative disciplines from graphic design and motion graphics to photography, architecture, film, and more. The marketplace hosts street food vendors, interactive installations, and exhibitor booths, making it both a networking and experiential hub. Attendees can explore creative trends, connect with industry leaders, and be part of a community energized by ideas and innovation.

Celebrated for its distinctive night-time vibe, Us By Night transforms Antwerp into a gathering spot for artists, designers, technologists, and creative thinkers from across the globe all sharing knowledge, passion, and inspiration under one roof. 

Maxon is proud to be a sponsor and active participant at Us By Night 2026. Across three days, six talented Maxon artists will present on the festival’s stage, sharing insights, tips, and inspiration from their creative journeys and workflows. These sessions will highlight innovative ways Maxon tools bring ideas to life across motion graphics, visual effects, animation, and design.

David Luepschen
David’s bold aesthetic — strongly influenced by his colour design & graphic design studies and his graffiti art — coupled with his love for mixed media has yielded a portfolio of unique characters and surreal worlds, all laying the foundation for what makes David’s art so honest and tangible. David had the opportunity to work for brands and agencies like Google, Nike, Adobe, Cartoon Network, BBC, Creative Review, O2, Panasonic, Sony Playstation, SKY, Lenovo, Arte TV, Wolff Olins & Pentagram Design among others.

Builders Club
Builders Club is a global creative-first studio built to bring ideas to life through seamlessly integrated, original, multidisciplinary production. With deep expertise spanning CGI, live action and AI they have become the go-to partner for the world’s most culturally significant brands. Their roster boasts collaborations with heavyweights like Nike, Chanel, Apple, Adidas, Mercedes-Benz, Balenciaga, and Gentle Monster. From directing A-list talent like Cardi B and Novak Djokovic to crafting immersive digital worlds, Builders Club consistently redefines the visual landscape.

Alvaro Navarro
Alvaro is a Designer, Art Director and Photographer who thrives at the intersection of worlds. He has built his career with leading studios like ManvsMachine, FutureDeluxe, Tendril, Kühl&Han, Six N.Five and Buck, collaborating with brands such as Aesop, reMarkable, Microsoft, Ford, Apple, Hublot, and Google. Specializing in design, art direction and photography, he approaches every project with craft and a sharp attention to detail. His multidisciplinary background informs a strong sense of composition, narrative, and design, while his sensitivity to light and texture defines mood. His imagery reflects a commitment to excellence, producing visuals that stand out for their clarity, depth, and authenticity.

Giusy Amoroso
Giusy is an Italian visual artist based in Berlin, working across digital and physical sculpture, moving image, XR, and immersive media. Her practice explores how life adapts within synthetic environments through what she refers to as “Hybrid Anatomies” — speculative organisms where organic and artificial systems merge.
Her work explores speculative biology through digital sculpting and procedural systems, using both approaches independently or in dialogue to construct evolving forms. Alongside her artistic practice, she has directed and collaborated on visual projects across electronic music, fashion, and gaming, working with partners including Nike, Afterlife, Anyma, Riot Games, Harper’s Bazaar, Sony Music, and Cartoon Network.

Her work has been presented at NXT Museum, Printworks London, Videocittà, MIRA, Immersive Tech Week (VR Days), Amsterdam Dance Event, and Pukkelpop, among others, and featured in live performances at Coachella and Red Valley Festival in collaboration with electronic musicians. She is a recipient of the Digital Vanguard Award at Videocittà (2022) and has presented her work through two TEDx talks.

Filipe Carvalho 
Filipe is an Emmy award-winning creative director / director working in the entertainment. He is known for work that is cinematic – mixing disciplines like design, architecture and photography in search of something that is greater than the sum of its parts. In the course of his career, he has worked with people such as Taylor Sheridan, Pete Nicks, Stanley Donwood, Thom Yorke, Danny Yount, Karin Fong on projects such as Counterpart, Working, Lioness, The Panic Office Retrospective, Sia: A Retrospective, The Walking Dead, WWII From the Frontlines.

He currently lives in Lisbon, Portugal with wife Patricia and daughter Ema. Filipe is a member of the American Television Academy.

Johanna Jaskowska 
Johanna is a digital artist and creative technologist exploring beauty, identity, and perception through technology. She is best known for Beauty3000, a viral AR face filter experienced by over 500 million users that helped define digital beauty as a creative field. Her practice spans augmented reality, AI-generated imagery, and speculative design, from chrome-skinned self-portraits to work that questions what the senses can become when technology intervenes. She recently co-founded PATIO Studio, an image-making studio based in Madrid at the intersection of fashion and technology, together with Yuri R. Galván, Felina H. del Barrio, and Carlos Ojeda.