Heading to Config’24?

Here's a little something cool we put together.

TL;DR: A bunch of Figma lovers from all over the world recorded our journeys from all across the globe heading into San Francisco. Out of that comes this Mini Documentary.

DISCLAIMER: This is a community project, led by Bruno Figueiredo. We are in no way directly associated with the Figma team and/or brand, outside of the fact we're all heading to Config.

About me and the project

Portrait of Bruno Figueiredo wearing a Figma hat.

My name is Bruno and I'm a Brand Designer based in Lisbon, Portugal. I'm also one of the Community Advocates running Friends of Figma's Global Discord and the Friends of Figma Portugal chapter.

I'm a creative and love to play around with more than just digital design, so I create content. From my podcast called Design is for Everyone, to some educational content for TikTok and other platforms, I've been doing video since my early career and I love the medium to share cool messages and stories.

Fast forward to 2022 and I was heading to Config in San Francisco when I had the idea of registering my trip from Portugal to SF, but ended up with a much more ambitious project.

"What if we gather videos from all across the globe of people flying in to SF to attend Config? Why not register and share a collective journey, ending on the kickstart moment of the conference."

Unfortunately, not many people joined my efforts and the idea fell through. But I know this community never fails to amaze me and this year I want to try and do the same project but with all of you

Here's how we asked fo help

The original idea was to record a handful of clips, be it with a phone or camera, registering our trip into SF and Config.

It didn't had to be perfect, or look cinematic. Everyone just grabbed their phone or camera and recorded the fun moments, the packing, the ride to the airport or the flight, the registration,… all the little bits up until the moment the conference was about to start.

Here are some shots I made back then for reference and bellow is a FigJam with notes and some images used to inspire the community.