Outside the Lines – Design Conclave 2024

Do you follow your own path? Are you yearning to break the mould? Do you like to colour outside the lines? We thought so. Pack your pencils and join us for the eagerly awaited St Bride Foundation Design Conclave 2024. In a building housing the machines and artefacts of the history of print and design we come together once again to explore the contemporary and cast a look into the future of our international creative community. 

Catch up with friends and colleagues and listen to this year’s tremendous speakers, traversing a typescape from digital to tangible media, criss-crossing augmented reality, illustration, album sleeves, brand design, zines, paper engineering, food and more than you could possibly imagine . . . 

‘One of the most inspirational design events of the year, always full of wit and wisdom, in the gorgeous surroundings of the unique St Bride Library. Not to be missed!’ Alistair Hall, We Made This ‘A designer’s dream day out.’ Bethany Plummer, Baxter & Bailey ‘An amazing opportunity to make new connections, learn and ignite your creative spark.’ Anna, DutchScot 

Attendees will also be able to explore the letterpress workshop and try their hand at printing. A copy of the conference poster designed by Jon Gray will be given to all in-person attendees. 

Schedule (in-person):

09.45am: Registration

10.30am: Conference Starts and Welcome Introduction 

10.40am: Micaela Alcaino 

11.15am: Charlotte Bartrop 

11.50am: Kate Dawkins 

12.30pm: Lunch 

14.00pm: Introduction 

14.05pm: Aoife Dooley 

14.40pm: Kelli Anderson 

15.15pm: Seb Lester 

15.45pm: Break

16:15pm: Introduction

16.20pm: Tudinh Duong 

16.55pm: Danielle Duncan 

17.30pm: Malcolm Garrett

18.15pm Conference Ends

18.15pm Conference After Party

21.00pm Party Ends

Principal Sponsor:
Sorkin Type

Sponsors:
Fenner Paper and
Fleet Street Quarter

It's all happenning on Saturday 28th September 2024 (and online too). In-person tickets: £80.00, £70.00, £60.00 

Event curation: Becky Chilcott. With special thanks to Sallyanne Theodosiou for the inspiration for this year’s theme ‘Outside the Lines.’

You can book your tickets HERE

https://sbf.org.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 10.09.2024

The Annual St Bride Foundation Conference returns!

St Bride Foundation has reprised its annual conference, with the event set to take place in November. It's live event and also being live-streamed to a worldwide audience for the first time.

Conference Identity by David Pearson

Talking to Printweek, event curator Becky Chilcott said the pandemic had resulted in “a greater need to bring our fantastic community together more often and inspire and engage with them and their creativity”, and it was the perfect time to revive the event. “Not only will the conference keep the St Bride Foundation alive in people’s creative imaginations, it will also raise vital funds to help the upkeep of our Grade II listed Victorian building, management and conservation of our unique and irreplaceable library collections and running of our print workshop and learning programme.” The St Bride Foundation said the event would be “a conversazione celebrating innovation, inspiration, imagination and invention”. 

The speaker line-up includes: Naïma Ben Ayed, Neville Brody, Jean Julien, Naomi Kent, Alicia Martin, Bob Richardson, Venessa and Vanice Scott, and Dominic Wilcox. Attendees will also be able to find out more about some of the treasures and notable items in the St Bride Library collection, and will have a chance to try letterpress printing using the historic presses in the St Bride printing workshop

Fenner Paper is pleased to be one of the principal sponsors along with Commercial Type and the Fleet Street Quarter together with Google and the Wynkyn de Worde Society Charitable Trust.

Principal Sponsors

The conference will take place on Saturday 11 November at the St Bride Foundation in London. In person tickets cost £60, £70 or £80. Online tickets for the live-stream are £35, £45, or £50. The discounted rates apply to students and Friends of St Bride.

You can book HERE. So why don't you get those little grey cells moving and sign up! NOW

https://sbf.org.uk/whats-on/view/the-annual-st-bride-foundation-conference/