By Design Conference

The 10th and the last amazing 2024. Thank you ❤️

Last 50 tickets! It’s now or never! Tickets are running out fast, so don’t hesitate. The conference has been sold out every single year. Don’t miss your chance to meet and learn from Designer and Artist Stefan Sagmeister, Partner and Creative Director of Studio Dumbar/DEPT® Liza Enebeis, Graphic Designer and Illustrator Bráulio Amado, Design Critic and Author Alice Rawsthorn, Architect Tosin Oshinowo, Multidisciplinary Designer and Founder of Typotheque Peter Biľak, Artist Morag Myerscough, Copywriter Mike Reed, Head of Endineering Joe Macleod, Readymag’s CEO Diana Kasay and Head of Brand Marketing Alya Datii at the last By Design conference on the 8th of June.

We will finish how we started! was the first speaker who confirmed he would join us at the first-ever . We even chose the date so it fit his hectic schedule. And with Stefan up our sleeve (in our line-up), it was suddenly a lot easier to get a ‘yes’ from other great speakers from all around the world.

Stefan will also be our very last speaker at the 10th and last By Design conference this June. In the ten years, he also went through some interesting endings, like when he stopped all his commercial work, left Sagmeister & Walsh and decided to focus on art and personal projects only.

Join us in exploring and celebrating endings and get your ticket at www.bydesignconf.com

The new industry partner and the new website luve 🎉
Go check out the new website www.bydesignconf.com with a (almost) complete line-up for the last edition of the . The new website was made on . As a tool created by designers for designers, Readymag champions creative freedom and emphasizes social impact initiatives. Readymag’s CEO Diana Kasay and Head of Brand Marketing Alya Datii’s talk will address how “Designing Women” aids in closing the gender gap in the industry.

.oshinowo at the last on HOW TO END THINGS✌️
Tosin Oshinowo is a Lagos-based Nigerian architect and designer. The founder and principal of Oshinowo Studio, which she formed in 2013, Oshinowo has worked on a number of civic, commercial and residential projects throughout Nigeria. She is renowned for her insights into socially responsive approaches to architecture, design and urbanism.
Oshinowo’s key designs include a project with the United Nations Development Programme to build an entirely new community in northern Nigeria for a village displaced by Boko Haram, the Maryland Mall and a flagship Store for Adidas in Lagos. Her work spans into the conceptual sphere, demonstrating a strong interest in architectural history while embodying a contemporary perspective on the next generation of African design and innovation. She partnered with Lexus on conceptual design explorations for Design Miami 2020 and co-curated the second Lagos Biennial in 2019. She has just curated the second Sharjah Architecture Triennial, which opened on the 11th of November 2023 and will run till the 10th of March 2024.

Oshinowo is a registered Architect in the Federal Republic of Nigeria and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Before founding Oshinowo Studio, she worked in the offices of Skidmore Owings & Merrill in London and the Office of Metropolitan Architecture Rotterdam, where she was part of the team that designed the 4th Mainland Bridge proposal in 2008. Upon returning to Lagos, she practised at James Cubitt Architects and led on notable projects, including the corporate head office building for Nigeria LNG in Port Harcourt. She has a BA in Architecture from Kingston University, London; an MSc in Development and Planning: Building and Urban Design in Development, University College London; an AA Diploma from the Architecture Association London; and a Masters in Business for Architecture and Design from IE University, Madrid.

Our dear friend Peter / on HOW TO END THINGS at the last . Peter Biľak works in the field of editorial, graphic, and type design, and cares about the impact of design and now just how things look like. He started Typotheque type foundry, Dot Dot Dot magazine, Works That Work magazine, and Fontstand.