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Birmingham Design Festival
6th–8th June 2024

Learn more about the festival, returning June 2024.
Tickets now on sale.

Event recommendations

With over 100 events across three days (and many of them sold out) we know looking at the What’s On can feel a bit overwhelming – so we’ve curated a list of events with good availability to help you choose!

Headliners…

Our evening events designed to give you a full hit of creativity in on session from some of the most accomplished designers in the world.

Process: Characters

  • Louis Henry Mitchell (Sesame Workshop)
  • Jessica Hische
  • Annie Atkins

The Giant Screen

talk

Process: Movements

  • Pav Grochola (Sony Pictures Imageworks)
  • PES
  • Eva Cremers

The Giant Screen

talk

Process: Layers

  • Sue Murphy (The Coca-Cola Company)
  • Ren Rigby (Proto)
  • Christopher Doyle (Christopher Doyle Co.)

The Giant Screen

talk

Workshops

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Designing Your Career

  • Rachel Gogel

The Bond

workshop

Biophilic Space Design Workshop: Designing with Nature

  • Alicia Storie (AdesignStorie)

11:00am–12:00pm or 2:00pm–3:00pm

BCU STEAMhouse - Workshop space

workshop

Batik Discovery Workshop

  • Shirlyn Low

BCU Parkside

workshop

For Illustrators & Animators

Imperfection as the fuel for creativity in 3D design

  • Andrea Marshall

The Bond

talk

Process: Movements

  • Pav Grochola (Sony Pictures Imageworks)
  • PES
  • Eva Cremers

The Giant Screen

talk

Bridge Builders: Navigating the Creative Process with Illustration Agencies

  • Weitong Mai

BCU Curzon

talk

Two’s Company

  • Bobby & Kate Evans (Telegramme Studio)

BCU Curzon

talk

Imagineering Intellectual Property creatively into new purposeful directions, one frame at a time

  • Drew Roper & Juliet Carmen Teksnes (Yamination Studios)

The Bond

talk

The Art of Design for Film

  • Sam Keehan (Territory Studio)
  • Ashton Hertz (Territory Studio)

The Bond

talk

We’re on the road to BDF 2024…

Over 80 speakers across from across the globe share three days of Process

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See What’s On

The schedule for BDF 2024 is now live! Tickets are now on sale.

Meet the speakers

We’re excited to share the full line-up for BDF 2024.

Plan your visit

Find out what to expect when you join us in June.

About the festival

Our festival is a biennial celebration of design held in June across Birmingham City Centre.

For three days, visitors can expect to choose from 20 free talks per day in one of our four Design Districts before coming together in the evening for a headline event in one of our larger venues.

In addition to talks, there’s a plethora of workshops, exhibitions, design tours and more to enjoy across the three days.

Catch up on previous festivals

‘Freedom’

June 8th–11th 2022

Our latest installment of the festival celebrated freedom.

Learn more

2018

Forward

2019

Truth

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