Brno Bold Festival 2026
2 days of graphic design and creativity in the heart of Europe
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If you want your work to stand out and attract attention, you need to let in a little weirdness. But true mastery lies in bringing order to that chaos. This year, Brno Bold transforms into a two-day festival exploring the sweet spot between raw, cutting-edge experimentation and top-tier professional execution.
Confirmed speakers
Tim Beard & Mason Wells / 🇬🇧
Founding partners of Bibliothèque — London-based brand studio
Tim Beard and Mason Wells are founding partners of Bibliothèque, an independent London design studio established in 2003. Known for conceptual rigour and meticulous craft, they deliver world-class brand identity, spatial design, and editorial work for clients like Nike, Adidas, Google, and the V&A. Tim is also an AGI member.
Studio YUKIKO / 🇩🇪
Berlin creative studio shaping brands across culture, fashion, and print.
Studio Yukiko is a Berlin-based creative agency founded by Johannes Conrad and Michelle Phillips. Specialising in creative direction, brand strategy, and graphic design for both commercial and cultural clients, the studio is known for its deep strategic thinking and editorial work — including award-winning magazines like Flaneur and Sleek, alongside clients such as Nike and Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
James Hurst / 🇬🇧
VP & Global Executive Creative Director at HelloFresh
James Hurst is a London-based designer and creative leader with a career spanning independent studios, startups, and tech giants like Google, Pinterest, and Tinder. He focuses on crafting robust brand systems and helping teams build scalable, high-impact solutions. James advocates for strategic thinking and hands-on making as true competitive advantages in the era of AI.
Martyna Wędzicka-Obuchowicz / 🇵🇱
Graphic designer, artist, and AGI member
Martyna Wędzicka-Obuchowicz is a Poland-based designer specializing in visual identities, creative direction, and poster design. She delivers bold, conceptually driven work for global brands including Adobe, Samsung, Pepsi, and Levi’s. A member of the prestigious Alliance Graphique Internationale, her award-winning portfolio reflects an experimental approach and a strict commitment to authentic design values.
Kuki Iwanski / 🇵🇱
Visual artist focusing on systems and art-driven spatial work
Kuki Iwanski blends strong aesthetics with multimedia, motion, and spatial formats to create bold, concept-driven projects. Working between Europe and Asia, he develops visual languages that connect design, art, and social awareness. An AGI member, Kuki has crafted visual work for brands like Netflix, Disney, and Facebook, earning accolades at top international design biennials.
Pavel Fuksa / 🇨🇿
Graphic Designer, Illustrator & Creative Director
Pavel Fuksa is a Czech graphic designer, illustrator, and creative director whose work spans branding, advertising, editorial design, and illustration. Known for his distinctive visual language and conceptual approach, he combines strong ideas with meticulous craft and a sharp sense of humor. Over the years, he has worked on projects for both Czech and international clients, creating visual identities, campaigns, illustrations, and other creative work that often balances simplicity, wit, and unexpected visual connections.
Ivo Gabrowitsch / 🇩🇪
Founder & Managing Director at Fontwerk
Ivo Gabrowitsch is the founder and managing director of Fontwerk, a Berlin-based type foundry focused on innovative typefaces and typographic solutions. With a background in media design and more than a decade of experience in the type industry, he has led the development and marketing of major type brands at FontShop and Monotype, including FontFont, MyFonts, and Linotype. Ivo is also a typography lecturer at Berlin University of Applied Sciences and regularly speaks at international design and typography conferences. His work sits at the intersection of typography, branding, technology, and communication.
Filip Blažek / 🇨🇿
Graphic Designer, Typographer & Educator
Filip Blažek is a Czech graphic designer, typographer, educator, and author with decades of experience in graphic design and visual communication. His work focuses on typography, editorial design, corporate identity, and the broader principles of graphic design. He has taught and lectured extensively, sharing his knowledge with generations of designers, and is the author of books and publications dedicated to typography and graphic design. Through his work, teaching, and writing, Filip has played an important role in shaping the Czech graphic design and typography scene.
Patrick Werdehausen / 🇩🇪
Vice President of Sales at nilo
Patrick Werdehausen has spent 15 years in sales, starting on the phones and working his way up to leading sales teams across Europe. Along the way he received and later delivered some of the most rigorous sales training in the industry, at top American SaaS companies and at fast-growing European startups. Five times he was recognised as a global top 1% sales performer. Eventually he made the shift from doing it himself to equipping others to do it better, coaching and building teams across different industries and company sizes.
Dany Rotkovský / 🇨🇿
Communication, Content & Impact Strategist at TRIAD Advertising
Dany Rotkovsky is a multidisciplinary communication and creative professional with experience across social media, design, PR, HR, organizational development, and project management. With a talent for connecting strategy, creativity, people, and processes, Dany brings a cross-field perspective to every project.
Míra Vlach / 🇨🇿
Specialist in project management and strategy execution
Míra Vlach is a strategic development and project management expert who helps companies and teams turn people, tools, processes, and AI into a well-oiled system that moves them toward their goals. He specializes in project portfolio management, strategy, OKRs, adaptability, and building effective team habits. Míra also organizes and moderates the Project Club, bringing together experienced professionals and inspiring speakers from across the field.
More speakers, workshop details, and the full schedule will be announced soon. Follow us for early updates.
Schedule
Venue
Day 1 / 9 Nov
Boldhalle
(200 seats)
Our own space that we created for you guys. The goal is to give space for meaningful connections between design(ers), business and art.
Come and check the gallery, cafe and coworking space.
Day 2 / 10 Nov
Co-Labs
Design Stage
(300 seats*)
Dedicated to creative execution and pure design craftsmanship. Featuring this year's top-tier international headliners.
*For the highest-demand talks, door staff count seats. Once the Design Stage is full, remaining attendees are directed to the overflow room (approx. 120–150 seats) with a live stream and comfortable seating.
Co-Labs
BUSINESS STAGE
(120 seats)
Focused entirely on agency scaling, backend workflows, and pricing. Runs a complete, independent parallel program.
Tickets & Access
DAY 1 only
9 November 2026 / Boldhalle
Early Bird | 1 890 CZK | 79 EUR |
Regular | 2 490 CZK | 109 EUR |
What's included? A poster exhibition / Creative workshops (sold separately) / Digital installations / Live coding / Networking & Afterparty
DAY 2 only
10 November 2026 / Co.labs
Early Bird | 4 890 CZK | 199 EUR |
Regular | 5 890 CZK | 249 EUR |
Our beloved classic: a day full of inspirational talks that get you going in your career + unlimited specialty coffee for your concentration.
Seats are filled strictly on a first-come, first-served basis. No booking.
All brought to you by Bloomfield Brand Studio
Creators of Brno Bold and visual identities that speak. We connect designers and creative minds to spark fresh ideas and new perspectives.
Need a bold brand or want to collaborate?
Looking for an event space?
Host it at Boldhalle –our 450 m² multipurpose creative space. Built for huge happenings and intimate events alike.
Brno — the city
Welcome to Brno – that sweet spot between Berlin's edge and Vienna's grace, but with its own thing going on.
It's a city running on creative energy, specialty coffee, and seriously good food. A place where student projects turn into startups, and every third person you meet is sketching their next big idea over a plate of something amazing.
Partners, who Bold
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