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Jack Wells
All Flows 2026
Every time the D5XR team attends All Flows, we leave full of fresh, new ideas. It's truly exciting to see a strong design community building outside of London, in a city full of creative culture. This year, it felt like the event had grown in confidence, ambition, and warmth.
5 Talks We Loved
Over the two conference days of the event, there were a number of talks that caught our attention. We struggled to narrow down our favourites this year.
Rob Draper - for showing us that putting the work you love out there will always attract attention. The artistic contrast of drawing beautifully-detailed art on coffee cups, a single-use throw-away item, was truly inspiring.
40MUSTAQEL - a studio that creates graphic design with a focus around diversity, identity, and culture made a poignant reminder about the power of design for good.
Baugasm - a story of when consistency pays off. A freelance designer who constantly evolves and integrates new ways of working into his practice. He started off doing a challenge of designing a poster every day and sharing it on Instagram, which turned into adding motion, 3D and AI into his workflow.
Annie Atkins - a graphic designer who has created paper props for films like Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, she uncovered the importance of handmade documents that make fictional worlds feel emotionally real. Painstaking precision and details really do matter.
Rabbithole - the agency behind the visual identity of the 2025 UK City of Culture: Bradford. They walked us through the challenge and delight of designing for a diverse district, coming up with an unforgettable colour palette and allowing the identity to be embraced and appropriated by Bradfordians themselves.
Design Community
After attending OFFF in Barcelona, where a variety of talks are always running simultaneously, we noticed that All Flows does things differently. With talks running one after another, and long breaks in between, there was more opportunity to talk to other creatives and explore the work of local artists at the market.
That structure makes a real difference. At All Flows, the pace is deliberately slower, and conversations have room to breathe. Q&As after most talks also created more space to engage with the speakers.
The market running alongside the talks added another layer to this. Browsing work from local artists, illustrators, and makers gave the event a connection to the wider creative ecosystem of the city. This gave the event a strong community feel, celebrating design culture. People weren't pitching themselves, or searching for the next talk to attend, but instead making new connections and finding others with similar interests.
Conclusion
With a broad variety of talks at All Flows, it's a fantastic event for creatives of all kinds. The lineup spans multiple disciplines including, illustration, motion, branding, film, typography, and art, meaning there's always something that shifts your perspective, regardless of your specialism. For anyone interested in broadening their horizons and seeing what the top creatives are doing, All Flows has something for everyone.
All Flows 2026
Every time the D5XR team attends All Flows, we leave full of fresh, new ideas. It's truly exciting to see a strong design community building outside of London, in a city full of creative culture. This year, it felt like the event had grown in confidence, ambition, and warmth.
5 Talks We Loved
Over the two conference days of the event, there were a number of talks that caught our attention. We struggled to narrow down our favourites this year.
Rob Draper - for showing us that putting the work you love out there will always attract attention. The artistic contrast of drawing beautifully-detailed art on coffee cups, a single-use throw-away item, was truly inspiring.
40MUSTAQEL - a studio that creates graphic design with a focus around diversity, identity, and culture made a poignant reminder about the power of design for good.
Baugasm - a story of when consistency pays off. A freelance designer who constantly evolves and integrates new ways of working into his practice. He started off doing a challenge of designing a poster every day and sharing it on Instagram, which turned into adding motion, 3D and AI into his workflow.
Annie Atkins - a graphic designer who has created paper props for films like Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, she uncovered the importance of handmade documents that make fictional worlds feel emotionally real. Painstaking precision and details really do matter.
Rabbithole - the agency behind the visual identity of the 2025 UK City of Culture: Bradford. They walked us through the challenge and delight of designing for a diverse district, coming up with an unforgettable colour palette and allowing the identity to be embraced and appropriated by Bradfordians themselves.
Design Community
After attending OFFF in Barcelona, where a variety of talks are always running simultaneously, we noticed that All Flows does things differently. With talks running one after another, and long breaks in between, there was more opportunity to talk to other creatives and explore the work of local artists at the market.
That structure makes a real difference. At All Flows, the pace is deliberately slower, and conversations have room to breathe. Q&As after most talks also created more space to engage with the speakers.
The market running alongside the talks added another layer to this. Browsing work from local artists, illustrators, and makers gave the event a connection to the wider creative ecosystem of the city. This gave the event a strong community feel, celebrating design culture. People weren't pitching themselves, or searching for the next talk to attend, but instead making new connections and finding others with similar interests.
Conclusion
With a broad variety of talks at All Flows, it's a fantastic event for creatives of all kinds. The lineup spans multiple disciplines including, illustration, motion, branding, film, typography, and art, meaning there's always something that shifts your perspective, regardless of your specialism. For anyone interested in broadening their horizons and seeing what the top creatives are doing, All Flows has something for everyone.
