Updates

We are excited to announce The Design Kids will be one of our media partners for this year’s Festival. TDK bridges the gap between studying and working in graphic design; a global online resource and local offline communities around the world.

We are excited to announce Aula will be joining us as Digital District partner for this year’s festival along with giving a talk in our digital hub.

We’re delighted to announce that Freitag will be joining us for an inspiring talk and workshop in the Product District at this year’s festival, aswell as coming on board as a supporter of the festival.

We are very pleased to announce Future Faces is once again supporting BDF this year. Future Faces is an ever growing network for young professionals and the leaders of tomorrow run by Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce.

We are delighted to welcome Arup, an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists, to our list of supporters for this year’s festival.

As main sponsors for last year’s festival, Awesome Merchandise threw themselves into helping make BDF as awesome as possible and we are delighted to announce that they will be returning as main partner for BDF2019.

We are excited to announce Newspaper Club will be supporting this year’s festival. We undoubtedly agree with Newspaper Club’s belief that paper is a timelessly accessible and versatile medium and, with this year’s festival theme of Truth, we wanted to recognise the power of newspapers to tell stories in a way that’s tactile and human.

We are excited to announce Creative Boom will be media partner for this year’s Festival.Established in 2009, Creative Boom is an online magazine that celebrates, inspires and supports the creative community across the UK and beyond.

We are excited to announce Dezeen will be media partner for this year’s Festival. Dezeen is the world’s most popular and influential architecture and design magazine.

Birmingham based GRIN is a creative agency specialising in communicating your story and developing your brand through graphic design, motion, digital and typography.

Last night at Glug Birmingham we announced another stellar line-up of designers, artists, makers, animators, lecturers and influencers and it’s here for your viewing pleasure.

We’re delighted to announce our first set of speakers for Birmingham Design Festival 2019 (6th–8th June) and what a list it is! With a selection of four from each district, these first 12 designers showcase some of the very best aspects of our industry.

We’re delighted to announce Association of Illustration will join us as a supporter for BDF 2019

We’re delighted to announce BLOC Hotels is returning as a main partner for this year’s design festival. The brand has a strong local presence and shares our love for design.

This year we’re delighted to welcome back one of our amazing District Sponsors from the 2018 festival – Foilco. No longer a designer’s best-kept-secret, this great company is fast becoming synonymous with encouraging creativity and supporting regional events.

In addition to supplying their expressive Graphik typeface for use as part of our core branding, the team will also present a talk in the Graphic District which will feature an insight into a new venture which they will be launching in the Spring.

We’re delighted to announce that as of February 2019 the BDF team will be orchestrating the highly popular Birmingham chapter of Glug events.

Birmingham is a very honest city – rough around the edges maybe, self-deprecating and humble definitely. In an age which has seen truth questioned and deception utilised in many areas, we’re more passionate than ever about truth…