Event categories: Third-party event
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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.]
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Type Paris: TDC72 Opening Party
Date: 26 May 2026More info For the opening night, we’ve got some cool ideas planned around typography and letterforms. Details to follow soon. Join us on for the opening night (19:00—22:00 CET), to discover the very best of graphic design using typography, as well type and lettering projects of the year. [Tickets are free, but…
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Typography at Reading: Typo26
Start date: 15 June 2026End date: 20 June 2026 We will be celebrating the class of 2026 through the building blocks of our typographic craft – the 26 letters of the alphabet. [Free. entry. Public show doesn’t require pre-booking.]
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Woodtype Poster Printing
Date: 21 June 2026More info During this workshop with a letterpress/graphic artist, participants will design, typeset, and produce a unique letterpress printed poster. The workshop will utilise the museum’s collection of wood types. It will be a hands-on experience, covering the fundamentals of letterpress printing techniques and some of the craft’s history and background. Beautiful…
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Can Built Environments Trigger Stress Responses? Salutogenic Solutions
Date: 11 June 2026More info Join Helena van Vliet for an engaging discussion on reducing stress through salutogenic design—an approach that focuses on creating environments that promote wellness at their core. In her talk, Helena will shed light on how our surroundings influence our physiology and share empowering, science-based strategies to design spaces that foster…
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Research Room 7: Mapping 20-minute Neighbourhoods
Date: 23 June 2026More info Research Rooms are informal online spaces for discussion with members of the research team from academia, practice and communities. About this session This session explores how neighbourhood environments shape access to everyday services and, in turn, influence health and inequality. Grounded in the University of Glasgow’s OPTIMA (Orienting Policy Towards Inequality Minimising…