G6 Series identity featured in Design Trends for 2012

The G6 Series is a DesignWeek event run regularly in DIT Mountjoy Square. These free seminars, lectures and workshops are aimed at bridging the gap between practical industry and academic design education.

The identity was designed to represent collaboration between speakers and audience and the colour overlap, representative of developing something new. Part of the concept was that the colours used would change and evolve, wile the master identity remained a constant.

The identity for the G6 Series has been featured in the 2012 Logolounge design trends, highlighting the anaglyphic style of the identity as being one of note.

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Institute of Designers in Ireland 13th Annual Awards

Con Kennedy MIDI, Chairman IDI Awards Committee

The 13th annual Institute of Designers in Ireland Awards took place in Dublin’s the Sugar Club on 27th of October. Hosted by television presenter Michael Hayes, the event celebrated the best of Irish design from the past year.

IDI Design Awards presenter, Michael Hayes

An international jury was assembled to evaluate the entries from diverse disciplines as interior & exhibition design, tv/theatre/film design, visual communication design, digital media and product design. One of the highlights of the evening was a Special Award for Outstanding Contribution to Design in Ireland, which was given to the Pivot Dublin bit team for getting Dublin shortlisted for the ICSID World Design Capital and for bringing an international focus to Irish design.

IDI President, Carol Coffey and Kieran Gallagher Deputy City Architect, Dublin City Council on behalf of Pivot Dublin Bid Team

Brian Stephens, CEO, Design Partners accepting Lifetime Achievement Award

The 2011 IDI lifetime achievement award went to Brian Stephens, CEO of Design Partners who gave a moving talk about working with the late Steve Jobs.

Miele IDI Grand Prix Winners, Honora Egan & Gregory Tobin of Spear Technologies for Read Assist

Honora Egan & Gregory Tobin of Spear Technologies won the Miele IDI Grand Prix award for their product  ‘Read Assist’ which is a tool to help dyslexic children and adults to read with the use of colour overlays.

The Institute of Designers in Ireland is the professional body representing the interests of Irish designers. Its function is to promote high standards of design, to foster professionalism and to emphasise designers’ responsibility to society, to the client and to each other.

Full list of the 2011 IDI award winners can be found here.

G6 Series: World Industrial Design Day 2011

 

Wednesday 29th June 2011 is ICSID World Industrial Design Day and to mark the occasion, DIT and the G6 Series together with Pivot Dublin are hosting a day long workshop in The School of Art Design and Printing, DIT, Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1.

Starting at 09:30 and finishing at 17:00 this FREE workshop is open to all and will explore the World Industrial Design Day theme:

Industrial Design: How does it improve your life?

We will be examining this question under the four themes from Pivot Dublin bid to make Dublin World Design Capital in 2014:

Connecting Cities, Making Cities Lighter, Making Cities Flow and Making Cities Smile

The event is free, designers and anyone interested in design is welcome.

Please contact email barry@sheehan.ie 00 353 87 259 2546 if you would like to attend.

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The third G6 Series lecture entitled “They named the company after me: How and why I started a Design Practice
” takes place this week and features Jenny Walsh, Bob Gray and Barry Sheehan. More>>

Date: Wednesday 9th March.

Location: Room G6, DIT Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1.

Time: 6.30PM sharp.

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G6 Series

The second G6 Series lecture entitled “Forget flippin’ burgers, I got a job in a design office” take place this week and features Naoise Ó Conchubhair, Paul Finnegan and Gregor Timlin. More>>

Date: Wednesday 9th Februrary.

Location: Room G6, DIT Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1.

Time: 6.30PM sharp.

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This talk will now take place Wednesday 8th December

Following on from the positive feedback received from the “How I became a designer” talk at Design Week 2010, myself and DIT colleague, Barry Sheehan have decided to expand on themes that came up for discussion as part of the questions and answers and tune them into a series of talks.

Starting on Wednesday 1st December and running monthly, this first talk is entitled “What they didn’t teach me in college” and features myself, Architect, Gavin Buggy, Product Designer, Martin Ryan and Digital Media Designer, Cormac O’Conaire.

Speakers will discuss what they learned in-industry and how the practical side of working as a professional designer differs from the academic side of being a student of design.

Date: Wednesday 8th December.

Location: Room G6, DIT Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1.

Time: 6.30PM sharp.

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This talk will now take place Wednesday 8th December

Design Week 2010

Design Week 2010 runs from November 1st to 7th as part of this year’s events and I’m running talk on creativity and inspiration.

Entitled “How I became a Designer” the event will involve participation form 6 prominent designers where they will discuss what influenced them to to take up a career in design and what continues to drive their creative passions.

Each designer will give a short informal presentation and after which the floor will be opened up for a question and answers session.

If you would like to take part in this talk or would like further information you can email me for further details.

Event Details (subject to change):

Date: Wednesday 3rd November.

Location: Room G6, DIT Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1.

Time: 7PM sharp.

designweek2006

November sees the annual Design Week and this year is taking a significant step forward by becoming an international design festival.

Running from November 6th, this year’s Design Week includes some of the leading names in Dutch design, architecture and advertising in its programme.

Design Week hasmoved beyond the capital city with events taking place outside Dublin for the first time with lectures, workshops, and exhibitions happening around the country.

Links:
http://www.designweek.ie