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Freedom to design
Date: 21 May 2026 Thursday 21 May 2026 (6pm BST) Recording of Alex and Vladimir Siniukov’s talk Our recent session with Alex Syniukov and Vladimir Siniukov showed how wayfinding projects can achieve far greater creative freedom by reducing the burden of coordination. They demonstrated how fragmented workflows and spreadsheet‑driven updates slow teams down — and…
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IIID VisionPlus ’26: Information Design and Civic Administration (Trust, Tradition and Toxicity)
Start date: 28 May 2026End date: 29 May 2026More info Civic administration is built on documents to guide and support public life. Examples of these documents are licenses (driving, hunting, fishing), forms, governmental websites, regulations (parking signs, local trash disposal), anything with taxes, labelling (food, chemicals, medicines), passport applications, visa and residence permits, immigration processes,…
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The Symbol Group: Symbol ’26: Neurath @90 (A Case for International Picture Language)
Date: 27 May 2026More info Examining Inclusivity, Diversity and Universality in Visual Languages. In 1936 Otto Neurath published ‘International Picture Language’, his seminal statement on Isotype, introducing Isotype to an international audience. The book epitomised his belief in a universal picture language that could communicate across borders, educational and social levels and clearly set out…
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The Gendered City: FEMSTIVAL of the Place
Date: 9 October 2026More info The first feminist urbanism summit. Become part of one of the first and biggest gatherings for feminist urban design, placemaking, art, music, and radical city-making. FEMSTIVAL is a space for urbanists, designers, artists, architects, activists, and communities to come together through ideas, exhibitions, collective learning, music, and cultural exchange, reimagining…
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Birmingham Design Festival: Type That Talks
Date: 12 June 2026More info Who knew making type move could be a full time job?! Well following no set plan and utterly winging it has been type designer & animator Mat Voyce’s scrappy path so far. From animating for brands all over the globe to standing on stages across multiple continents, attempting to explain how this…
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Birmingham Design Festival 2026: Print’s Not Dead … Again
Date: 12 June 2026More info s 2026 the year print makes its comeback? At Newspaper Club, we’ve been hearing a similar question every couple of years. Print has never really gone away, but its purpose and value continues to evolve. Print once ruled mass communication, but in a digital-first world it’s being considered in a…
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Birmingham Design Festival 2026: Mapping What Lasts
Date: 11 June 2026 Some things in design haven’t changed in a hundred years. Some will sound ridiculous in ten. This is a talk by Tudinh Duong about mapping change, in the work, in the studio, and in the discipline. What’s worth charting right now. What still works in a hundred years. “On my desk,…
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Birmingham Design Festival 2026: You Are Here is a Lie (How Wayfinding Changes Places)
Date: 10 June 2026More info ‘You are here’ might be the most quietly radical phrase in design. It doesn’t just orientate you. It tells you what reality is, where you stand in it, and how you’re allowed to move. Wayfinding Design Director Alison Richings reframes navigation as a form of invisible architecture. This is a…
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Birmingham Design Festival 2026: Changing Spaces with Colour and Light
Date: 10 June 2026More info British visual artist Liz West is known for transforming spaces into immersive chromatic experiences using light and colour. Ranging from multi-storey car parks to cathedrals, power stations and white cube spaces, Liz has used her understanding of light and bold colour palette to change how we feel and behave in the spaces…
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Birmingham Design Festival 2026: Change
Start date: 10 June 2026End date: 12 June 2026More info Three days celebrating design in all its forms. Over 60 speakers across three days in multiple venues. [Some tickets are free while others are costed. Book now.]