Luke Tonge

Designer · Co-founder · Founder

5 articles · Jun 2024Jul 2025

Studios:Birmingham Design Festival

Quotes

  • Teaching well is the hardest job in design, by far.
  • Falmouth was formative for me. It instilled in me the belief that good ideas are at the heart of everything.
  • Print, especially magazines, is the ultimate design project because it encompasses so many facets of design.
  • It's about knowing enough to bring a vision to life without dictating how things should be done.
  • I push back on the idea of specialising early on unless you're truly a genius at something.
  • At BDF, we believe world-class design talks (and workshops) should be accessible to everyone – we've been doing this for years with our Festival and other events in Brum - so when the opportunity came to bring some of our BDF spirit and speakers to students in a University setting, and one as beautiful as Falmouth, it was a no-brainer.
  • There’s a lot of bangers on our screens every day, but less of how the sausage gets made.
  • Curation is really important to us – it’s what everything hangs on.

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