There are places in this world where a room full of 14,000 people will ooh, aah and even scream for something as seemingly mundane as fonts or a new CMD+Z feature in Photoshop that performs real, consecutive undo’s.

This year’s conference was another one for the books, and it focused more on helping designers and artists get away from tedious, repetitive work so they could do more of what they do best – creating. Not only were there breakout sessions and courses for the attendees, but speakers like director Ron Howard, photographer Albert Watson and comic book artist Nicola Scott delivered inspirational talks. There was even a sit-down conversation with YouTube sensation Lilly Singh and the Roots’ Questlove moderated by Adobe singing evangelist Jason Levine.