The Annual St Bride Foundation Conference

Innovation. Inspiration. Imagination. Invention.

Saturday 11 November 2023

St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
In-person tickets: £80, £70, £60
Online tickets: £50, £45, £35

Book Tickets HERE

Join us for the renowned St Bride Foundation Conference – a conversazione celebrating innovation, inspiration, imagination and invention.

Designing the graphics for the smash flick Barbie, furthering the education and skills of prisoners, inventing stained glass driverless sleeper cars – this is only the tip of our designberg! Get ready to be bedazzled by our extraordinary lineup of speakers:

Naïma Ben Ayed

Neville Brody

Jean Jullien

Naomi Kent

Sarah Boris

Bob Richardson

Jon Gray

Jamie Keenan

Dominic Wilcox

Attendees will also be able to explore our letterpress workshop and try their hand at printing, and find out more about some of the treasures in the St Bride Library collections.

Conference schedule (in-person):

09.45: Registration
10.30: Introduction
10.45: Speaker 1
11.20: Speaker 2
11.55: Speaker 3
12.30: Lunch
14.00: Speaker 4
14.35: Speaker 5
15.10: Break
15.50: Speaker 6
16.25: Speaker 7
17:00: Speaker 8
17.45: Conference ends
18.30: Party
21.00: Party end

Online times (GMT): 10.30–17.45pm


Please note: you will be emailed the Zoom link for the conference on 10 November at 5.30pm. (Booking will close at 5pm on 10 November). Please also make sure that you book the correct ticket – anyone with an online ticket who tries to turn up in person will not be admitted.

Principal sponsors:

Commercial Type

Fenner Paper

Fleet Street Quarter

We would also like to thank Google and The Wynkyn de Worde Society Charitable Trust for their generosity in sponsoring this conference.



Conference poster designed by David Pearson