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We’ve joined McCann in their workshop, ‘HumAIn Design: Playing with the Enemy’ where the team are sharing how to use AI to enhance rather than replace creativity. Split into groups, they’re presented with tasks, where McCann share the importance of human-first design. 💻

We’ve joined idleletters for his Expressive hand-lettering workshop using Procreate! Loz shares tips on how to create bold, characterful hand lettering using scribbles, colour and texture. 🎨

We love type! We’ve joined Typographic Circle for their workshop introducing typography. The participants are having fun and getting crafty playing with type. 😍

We’re big fans of Gemma O'Brien and we always love her workshops. 🫶🏻 Everyone’s been exploring composition, pattern techniques, calligraphy and illustration!

It’s time for the BDF Conference 2025! Spot the Town Hall and the Wobbly Man. You can’t miss us, and our lovely volunteers are here to help you. 😍

Head to the entrance and get scanned in by the friendly BDF team. You’ll be given a wristband and then head inside to the auditorium where you’ll receive a BDF tote full of goodies! 🥳

Don’t forget to pop down to the Birmingham Design Shop downstairs at The Town Hall. You’ll find our specially curated shop, full of design books and gifts. 🤩

Check out our doodle station, where Pheeb Robinson, Noah Kulman and Ted Jones will be doodling on tote bags today. 🛍️✍🏻

BDF 2025 Let’s Go!!! 🥳🤩🧡

It’s time for our first speakers of the day! We’re joined by anoushka rodda and Pali Palavathanan, the Co-Founders and Directors at T E M P L O. It’s been great to hear from the founders of Templo and find out more about their impactful work.

Taking to the stage is graphic artist and paper engineer, kelli anderson! We’ve been hearing all about her projects including her whimsical pop-up books and illustrations. We love Kelli’s work. 📚

We’re excited to be joined by Liza Enebeis, Creative Director and Partner at the awesome STUDIO DUMBAR/DEPT®. Liza shares her projects including beautiful motion identity for Demo Festival and Utah Jazz and the importance of Play.

After a short break, we heard from the award-winning Creative Director at the The Guardian, Chris Clarke. We’ve loved hearing about Chris’s projects at The Guardian and his own experiments in his typographic graphic work and importantly, not forgetting to have fun! 🔥

Next up are the wonderful duo, malika favre and George Wu. For the first time, the friends are taking to the stage to talk about their shared project, ‘icantaffordthisbutmaybeshecan’. We love the fun, joy and playful nature of their ‘long distance shopping list’. 🛍️

Our next speaker is Javier Jaén Studio! The acclaimed graphic designer’s work is impactful, symbolic and playful. Javier shares his projects, the concepts, behind the scenes and unexpected challenges!

Our penultimate speakers are Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit from UnderConsideration. Together they discuss their iconic site, Brand New and share an insight into their Brand New Conference. As a festival, we’ve long admired their work! 🤩

Our final speaker of BDF 2025 is the one and only Merlin Crossingham! Merlin Crossingham, Creative Director at Aardman. We’ve loved learning about his work and his role in directing Wallace & Gromit. 🫶🏻

Birmingham City University is presenting a new exhibition from two internationally acclaimed artists as part of Birmingham Design Festival. 🤩 Echo Chamber is the first collaborative exhibition between graphic artists Jimmy Turrell and Neasden Control Centre, aka Stephen Smith. Read more:

#RT MyBCU: Birmingham City University is presenting a new exhibition from two internationally acclaimed artists as part of Birmingham Design Festival. 🤩 Echo Chamber is the first collaborative exhibition between graphic artists Jimmy Turrell and Neasden Control … :

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us last week for another incredible Birmingham Design Festival. 🎉 A special shout-out to organisers Daniel Alcorn + Luke T☺︎nge and the amazing volunteers and speakers for all their hard work. Who's already getting excited for #BDF2026? 🙋