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10th – 12th June 26
10th – 12th June 26

Speakers

BDF 2026: Change!
Wed 10th–Fri 12th June 2026

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Nellie Scott

Executive Director at Corita Art Center

Barrie Gower

Prosthetic Makeup Designer & Creative Director of BGFX

Sarah Gower

Co-Director of BGFX

Led By Donkeys

Akiko Stehrenberger

Artist & Designer

Cold War Steve

Artist

James Oritz

Director & Puppet Designer

Lou Downe

Founding director of the School of Good Services

Barrington Reeves

Creative Director & Founder of Too Gallus

Samar Maakaroun

Partner at Pentagram

Danny Miller

CEO at Human After All

Myungeun Kim

Senior Motion Designer at Buff Motion

Viv Greywood

Head of Design at Stink Studios

Nicholas Hulley & Nadja Lossgott

Chief Creative Officers of AMV BBDO

Kevin McCaul & Emma Hetherington

Allies

Laura Tofarides

Stop Motion Director & Animator

Kaye Symington

Chief Marketing Officer at Newspaper Club

Sachini Imbuldeniya & Darren Smith

Co-founders of House of Oddities (HOO)

Dom Edwards

Co-founder of The Arena

Lauren Archer

Co-founder of The Arena

Tudinh Duong

Founding Partner & CEO of Made by ON

Yukai Du

Illustrator, Animator

Matt Baxter

Founder, Baxter & Bailey

Dom Bailey

Founder, Baxter & Bailey

Meg Fatharly

Collage, Print, Words and Handmade Art

Papa Akuffo

Director, Product at Projects by IF

Karen Hughes & Khadija Kapacee

Co-founders of EDIT Brand Studio

David Johnston

Founder, Accept & Proceed

Amy Louise Evans

Illustrator

Matt Redway

Sr. Creative Director at PlayStation

Mary Hemingway

Founder of Design by Women

Rich Rhodes

Executive Creative Director at SomeOne™

Simon Manchipp

Founder of SomeOne™

Elise Foster Vander Elst

Head of Exhibitions & Environmental Impact Lead, the Design Museum

Graeme McGowan

Co-Founder & Strategy Director of Jamhot

Oonagh & Jenny Simms

The Marshmallowist

Mat Voyce

Type Design & Motion

Cesca Hadland

Writer + Creative at Reed Words

Sabrina Shim

Writer at Reed Words

Mark Murphy

Artist and Designer

Allister Malcolm

Glass Artist

Ellmer Stefan

Type Designer, The Pyte Foundry

Shaqa Bovand

Type Designer at F37 Foundry

UUendy Lau (UU)

Illustrator, Designer & Installation Artist

Dan Crowe

Editor-in-Chief of Port and Director of Prose London

Karoline Rerrie

Illustrator & Printmaker

John Joseph Holt

Founder, Creative Director & Editor-in-Chief of LAW

Frankie Ratford

Interior Designer & Entrepreneur

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