Due to the COVID-19 crisis, this event has now been postponed until June 2021. You can find out more about our future plans by reading our blog post.
Join us in October for the first ever BDF Conference, a celebration of design, creativity and COLOUR.
This year the main focus of BDF will be a day of talks held in the beautiful Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. You can expect to hear from industry leading design pros who’ve been hand-picked by us due to their strong association with the use of colour in their work.
The BDF conference continues our tradition of world-class design education at an accessible price with tickets from just £50. We know there’s a level of uncertainty around events at the moment, but you can rest easy knowing should we need to cancel or postpone you can expect a full refund of your purchase.
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.
Morag Myerscough
Designer/Artist
Morag Myerscough is a London born designer/artist whose work is characterised by an engaging boldness, strong use colour and high levels of positive energy. She creates structural installations and immersive spatial works that champion community and public interaction.
Acclaimed projects include TEMPLE OF AGAPE, Southbank, 2014, POWER bridge, a permanent installation at Battersea Power Station, 2017, Sheffield Children’s hospital bedrooms, 2017, LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, a pavilion installation in Aberdeen, 2019, and MAKE HAPPY THOSE WHO ARE NEAR, structural installation in Hong Kong, 2019, ATOLL permanent installation, Broadgate, London 2019,
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.
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