Experience the first-ever BDF Conference, a celebration of design, creativity and COLOUR. Now available to watch on demand.
BDF 2021 took place 16th–20th August and was broadcast online to over 400 people live and on-demand, with multiple nights of talks from celebrated designers sharing their love of colour in all its forms in our Vito hub.
Now you can rewatch all of the talks, workshops and Q&As on-demand buy purchasing access below.
Expect incredible insights into our speaker’s work and some truly unique films that celebrate our affinity for colour in all its forms.
Speakers
Brian Collins
Chief Creative Officer of COLLINS
Brian Collins is Chief Creative Officer of COLLINS, an independent experience design company in New York City and San Francisco. They were named by Forbes as one of the companies reshaping the future of brand building. Over his career, Brian and his team have won every major creative award.
MURUGIAH
Artist & Illustrator
Murugiah is an award-winning artist based in London, U.K. Born and raised in the UK with Sri Lankan heritage, Murugiah trained as an architect in London before choosing his current creative path, specialising in art, art direction, and design. Today, he makes psychedelic work infused with the dichotomy of his Sri Lankan heritage and western upbringing around themes of mental health, the impending doom of our planet, and climate change amongst other things. All made in a surreal, joyful, loud and unapologetic style using bright bold colours and detailed graphical compositions.
His selected collaborators and commissioners include Apple, Disney, Marvel, Facebook, Penguin, Vans, Wired, Los Angeles Times, and Mondo. And he has been featured by BBC, Creative Boom, Creative Lives in Progress, Digital Arts, and SixtySix Magazine. Murugiah is currently available for projects and commissions.
Liz West
Liz West is a British artist (b.1985) who graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2007. West’s broad body of work encompasses site-specific installations, sculpture, and wall-based artwork.
West creates vivid environments that mix luminous colour and radiant light. West aims to provoke a heightened sensory awareness in the viewer through her works. She is interested in exploring how sensory phenomena can invoke psychological and physical responses that tap into our own deeply entrenched relationships to colour.
Daniel Eatock
Imagine the work of a young designer for whom concept and humor are more important than the glossy aesthetics of mainstream periodicals and design annuals and for whom the message trumps the media and you begin to get an idea of the refreshingly smart and thought-provoking work of Daniel Eatock. Rejecting the widely held opinion that work made without a client is “art” and work for hire is “design” Eatock challenges both categories by purposely blurring the distinction. Whether he is solving client problems or those of his own choosing Eatock’s work responds to personal fascinations and the desire to invent discover and present.
Momtaz Begum-Hossain
Colour Expert & Modern Colour Theorist
Momtaz Begum-Hossain is a Colour Therapy Expert, Modern Colour Theorist and Author. Her third book Hello Rainbow: Finding Happiness in Colour will be published November 2021 by Leaping Hare Press. She’s the Founder of the ‘Hello Hue’ philosophy; a seven-point guide for how to use colour to boost your mood and mental wellbeing.
Eddie Opara
Partner at Pentagram
A native Londoner, Opara studied design at the London College of Printing and Yale University, and began his career working at firms ATG, Imaginary Forces, and 2×4 before founding his own practice, The Map Office, in 2005. Within a matter of years, Opara was tapped to join the global, multidisciplinary design studio Pentagram as a partner at its New York offices, where he currently leads an array of projects with clients including Samsung, Lululemon, The New Republic, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Over the years, he’s grown to appreciate and incorporate more colour in his work, whether it be for digital, motion, print, exhibition, software, branding, or a combination of them. His 2014 book, Color Works: An Essential Guide to Understanding and Applying Color Design Principles, offers a comprehensive reference for using colour in design, featuring case studies with leading designers in the field.
What’s included?
All talks and films from BDF 2021 are included with your purchase, available on demand.
Practical Colour
Co-founder of Collins Brian Collins*, Pentagram partner Eddie Opara and colour expert Momtaz Begum-Hossain explore how they’ve applied colour to their work and practice.
Playful Colour
Join Liz West, Daniel Eatock and MURUGIAH for a journey through colour and how it’s influenced their work.
Workshops + Q&As
Doodling workshops with Awesome Merch & Zineswap, colour experiments with Patrick Thomas, live Q&As with our speakers – including festival co-founders Luke Tonge & Daniel Alcorn.
*By agreement with COLLINS, the talk given by Brian Collins was made available during the Conference, only.
Our on-demand video of Practical Colour will now only contain talks from Momtaz and Eddie.
Feel free to contact us at hello@birminghamdesign.co.uk if you have any questions
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