Heading to Config’23?

Let's create something cool together.

Here’s the idea: let’s all record our journey’s from all across the globe heading into San Francisco.

It doesn’t need to be perfect, or look cinematic. Just grab your phone or camera and record 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 is about to start.

Here are some shots I made for reference:

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

How to help

The idea is to record a handful of clips, be it with your phone or your camera if you have it, registering your trip into SF and Config. Bellow is a FigJam with notes and some images to inspire you.

The idea is for the video to end exactly at the moment the conference start so having as many shots of that as possible, that would be great. After that would love to join everyone surfin the first break to grab a final photo/video of all of us together.

Once all is done and you’ve enjoyed Config to full extent, we’ll join back up at the Config Slack channel for in-person attendees, where we’ll chatting and planning the whole thing. It's also where we'll start gather the footage to do the final edit.