29/09/2026
Meet the speakers!
In the lead up to our design conference, we’d like you to get to know our brilliant speakers.
First up we have Raissa Pardini. Raissa is a UK based designer who works with type, colours, shapes and take parts of exhibitions, festivals and talks. She works with clients such Apple, Apple Music, Nike, MTV, Gucci, Samsung, NYTimes, Skims, WeTransfer, The Standard Hotel and artists like The Rolling Stones, Blur, Kneecap, Maneskin, Blur, Willie Nelson Nadia Lee Cohen. Her passion for ethical matters got her working closely to charities like Brian Eno’s Earth Percent, Endometriosis UK, R**e Crisis.
Raissa takes part of the free mentoring program at LCC and the working class creative database. She is also an international lecturer and speaker for universities and stages like Nicer Tuesday, Apple Store, Adobe Live, Weltformat, The University of Florida, LABASAD, UAL, OFFF Barcelona, Offenbach, IED. You can find her Ted Talk from last year on YouTube.
Her work is also included in the permanent and iconic V&A archive and she was included in the Patreon and shesaid.so top100 influence in the music industry.
And second, we’d like to introduce you to Tom Etherington.
Tom is a designer of books, magazines and records. He worked in-house at Penguin Press for six years before leaving to set up as a freelance designer in 2021. Clients and collaborators include Grayson Perry, The Gentlewoman, Knopf, Maxïmo Park, The New York Times, Penguin, Peter Saville, Scott King and Self Esteem.
Find out more about Tom and Raissa by visiting their profiles over at Raissa Pardini and respectively.
They’ll be joining us at our annual conference on 17 October which celebrates design, music and visual culture. As well as hearing from nine other speakers, the day will be filled with creativity, inspiration, letterpress, chats with like-minded creatives about the best – or worst – album cover of all time – and so much more. Check out the link in our bio for more information and to book your tickets.
