CRE8 Festival - Modulor x Pinterest

CRE8 - Modulor x Pinterest

September 26, 2026, is finally here.
Together with Pinterest, we’re bringing digital inspiration and real materials together. Experience how ideas become reality—at DIY pop-ups, workshops, Pinterest Trend Talks, Artist Talks, and Modulor behind-the-scenes tours.
 

🎟️ Your Festival Ticket

YourCRE8 festival ticketis essential. It gives you access to our DIY pop-ups and many other activities where you can try things out, get hands-on, and win prizes.

For workshops, talks, and tours, you’ll also need a separate event ticket.Just pick the program items that interest you and don’t overlap in time.

All events are free. 🥳

The first1,000 festival-goerson site will receive an exclusive CRE8 goodie bag.
 

🎨 DIY Pop-ups & Activities

1:00 PM–6:00 PM · Drop-in, drop-out · with festival ticket

On the ground floor and first floor, you’ll find a variety of materials, techniques, and creative activities. Just stop by, give it a try, and turn digital pins and ideas into something real right on the spot.
 

🍂 Your Fall Bingo with Mt Washi Tape

Work with @merlemail and @malinaflorentine to design your own personalized fall bingo card using mt Washi Tape. Use it to jot down all the things you absolutely want to experience this fall.

🌈 Create with STABILO x PANTONE Markers

Discover the 30 colors of the limited-edition STABILO BOSS ORIGINAL x PANTONE collection and experiment with color blocks, overlays, and blind drawings. @optik.illustration will guide you in creating your very own work of art using color and line.

🌸 Bending flowers with pipe cleaners

Use colorful chenille wire from folia to create your own flower that’s guaranteed never to wilt. Combine colors, bend and twist the wire, and shape it into your very own unique flower.

✏️From Idea to Illustration

Draw alongside @myobscurevisions and discover how illustrations emerge from small observations, wordplay, and spontaneous ideas. At the open LAMY creative mini session, you can try out different writing instruments, ask questions, and start drawing right away.

🪡 Polaroid Cross Stitching

In this DIY pop-up, you’ll transform a Polaroid photo on a card into a personal keepsake using small cross-stitch motifs. Choose your favorite motif and discover, together with @pinatocrafts, how a needle, thread, and photo come together to create a one-of-a-kind handmade piece.

🐻 You’ll leave your mark on Berlin!

Aunt Folia has the foil; you bring your Berlin flair. At Aunt Folia, embossing foil becomes a piece of real Berlin. We’ll show you techniques, effects, and material hacks—you bring the attitude. At the end, you’ll take your own creation home with you. And no one tells you what it has to look like. With Karo & Theresa from the Folia creative team.

🎫 Workshops, Talks & Tours

Dive deeper into specific topics in a small group and secure your spot in a workshop, talk, or tour.

Important:For these program items, you’ll need a separate free event ticket in addition to your festival ticket.

Please select only events thatdon’t overlap in time, and cancel your registration if you can’t make it after all. That way, your spot can be given to someone else. 💛
 

🎨 Workshops

Summer Recap with Mt Washi (English)

1:30–3:00 p.m.
Meeting Point: Festival Info

Turn your summer memories into a postcard-sized piece of art using Mt Washi tape, drawing, stationery, and collage. Create a personal keepsake with @abbeysy filled with colors, patterns, and moments from your summer.

Simple Drawing Hacks (English)

3:30–5:00 p.m.
Meeting point: Festival Info

Discover playful drawing exercises with @linescapes.drawing that help you get started, think creatively, and let go of the pressure to draw “well.” Experiment with shapes, observation, color, and spontaneous ideas to find new ways of seeing and drawing.

Creative Painting with Acrylics (German)

5:30–7:00 p.m.
Meeting point: Festival Info

Learn about various acrylic techniques and experiment playfully with colors, shapes, and textures. Together with Juan-Carlos Rosa-Casasola, you’ll create several small, highly personal paintings in postcard format.
 

📣 Talks

Analogue Creativity in the Age of AI (English)

1:30–2:00 p.m.
Meeting point: Festival Info

Creativity researcher @linescapes.drawing explores how creativity works and how it is changing in a world increasingly shaped by AI. Discover how creative thinking can be cultivated, where AI can support the process, and where analog creation remains essential.

Finding Your Voice Through Making (English)

3:30–4:00 p.m.
Meeting point: Festival Info

Illustrator and designer @giuliahartz shares how curiosity, experimentation, and making helped her develop her own creative language. She explores why side projects, craft, and personal perspective remain essential in a world shaped by fast-moving digital tools and AI.

Following Your Creative Curiosity (English)

4:30–5:00 p.m.
Meeting Point: Festival Info

Multidisciplinary artist @abbeysy explores how curiosity, experimentation, and everyday inspiration can shape a creative practice. Through personal stories and creative pursuits, she reflects on finding your voice and discovering what you want to share with the world.
 

Pinterest Trend Talk

German: 2:30–3:00 p.m.
English: 5:30–6:00 p.m.

Meeting Point: Festival Info

Anna Neumann and Thomas Dengl from Pinterest will explore the role aesthetics plays in the emergence and spread of modern art and DIY trends. Using specific examples from Pinterest, they’ll demonstrate how inspiration, visual language, and visual trends shape creative behavior—and why platforms like Pinterest have become key trend barometers for the industry.
 

👀 Modulor Behind-the-Scenes Tour (German)

Tour 1: 2:00–2:45 p.m.
Tour 2: 4:00–4:45 p.m.
Tour 3: 5:00–5:45 p.m.

Meeting Point: Festival Info

You know Modulor from the outside—but what’s it really like behind the scenes? On our behind-the-scenes tour, you’ll explore the workshop, warehouse, shipping area, office, and more. See where cut-to-size and folded sheet metal are produced, get to know the tools and machines, and learn about the processes behind the store, the online shop, and the product lineup.