The 4th year Visual Communication students from DIT will host a fundraiser exhibition in Little Green Street Gallery on Tuesday 6th of March.
Admission is €5.
Posters will be on sale and there will be live music later on in the evening from “Arms That Fit Like Legs”
All funds raised will go towards the student graduate show.
Image: Mary Plunkett
Crafting Type: The Power of Language and the Hands That Craft it, is an exhibition taking place between 8th and 12th of March. Curated by Orlaith Ross the exhibition will cross the divide between craft and design.
The launch will take place on Thursday 8th of March, 2012 at The Factory, Barrow Street, Dublin 4 at 6pm with Professor John McMillan, School of Art and Design, University of Ulster and Education Officer, International Society of Typographic Designers.
This exhibition showcase will feature ten artists who place craft at the heart of their work and take inspiration from the written word, transforming typography and lettering using traditional and contemporary techniques in unexpected ways.
Exhibitors include:
Entry to the exhibition is free, and is open 10-5pm daily.
More information:
http://craftingtype.tumblr.com/
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This February sees yet another great design event coming to Dublin!
IxDA Interaction Dublin runs from February 1st to the 4th in The Convention Center Dublin. 75 speakers, 4 Days, workshops, break out events. Simply unmissable for those involved or with an interest in interaction design.
Workshops include Interface Design, Prototyping, Design Language for Interaction, Accessibility and Gamification.
More here>>
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.
Congratulations to the team at Pivot Dublin for being one of just 3 cities worldwide who have been shortlisted for the prestigious title of World Design Capital 2014.
Today the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) announced that Dublin, along with Cape Town and Bilbao have been shortlisted from 56 applicant cities from around the globe.
The Dublin bid, ‘Pivot Dublin, Turn Design Inside Out’ is a collaboration between the four Dublin local authorities, focusing on themes of ‘Connecting Cities’; ‘Making Cities Flow’; ‘Making Cities Lighter’ and ‘Making Cities Smile’.
The Pivot Dublin team are now developing and implementing these proposals as ‘seed projects’ for the run-up to the announcement in October of the winning city.
This is an unprecedented opportunity for Dublin and the Multidisciplinary Design Community we have in this city and not only for the promotion of Irish design at a global level, but also for promotion of the creative capabilities of the nation. Ireland is unique in our global influence – and we now need to exploit our position and become World Design Capital 2014.
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Last night I attended the Pivot Dublin presentation in City Hall, where Dublin City’s bid to become World Design Capital in 2014 was presented to an audience of a couple of hundred designer, architects, film makers, educators, students and city officials.
The the evening was presented by Ali Grehan, City Architect for Dublin City Council and the keynote speaker was Minister for Education and Skills, Mr. Ruarí Quinn, T.D. – who incidentally was once an architect!
Mr. Quinn highlighted the vibrancy of design in Dublin and how that dynamism effects the wider community and economy at large.
Other attendees were Dr. Linda King and David Smith from IADT, John O’Connor, Kiean Corcoran and Barry Sheehan from DIT, Ré Dubhthaigh from Radarstation, Séamus Byrne of IxDA, Illustrator and Offset organiser Bren B, Garret Stokes from Design Business Ireland, Architect Emma Curley, Bob Gray from Red and Grey and many, many more. Of course, I was wearing my Institute of Designers in Ireland hat, so pretty much the whole creative community was represented.
You can show your support for Dublin to become World Design Capital in 2014 by liking Pivot Dublin on Facebook , tweeting about fantastic design is in Dublin, by using the hash tag #wdc2014 or by following Pivot Dublin on Twitter.
It’s been 16 years since my end-of-year graduation show in DIT and although I’ve returned to my old Alma Mater almost every year since, this was the first year I that I attended the Grad Show as a tutor!
The exhibition was once again held in The Complex in Dublin’s Smithfield and featured works of final year students of Visual Communications, Interior Design, Furniture Design and Product Design.
Barry Sheehan designed a modular system that can be re-used for subsequent exhibitions, each unit gave the student a substantial facia area to exploit and a waist level shelving system that could hold a portfolio and or laptop for the display of digital media work.
The exhibition catalogue was designed by final year Visual Communications students Ciarán Murphy and Killian Walsh and featured and interesting open bind with a blind embossed cover.
More:
http://www.ditgradshow2011.com
http://www.facebook.com/DitGradShow11
http://ditgradshow2011.tumblr.com/
Hey students! Keep 26th of May open in your social calendar.
Pictured above at the launch of Portfolio Night9: (L-R) Pearse McCaughey, Creative Director at Cawley NeaTBWA & President of ICAD, Con Kennedy, Creative Director at Con Kennedy Visual Communications & lecturer at DIT, Elaine McDevitt, Operations Director ICAD and JP Donnelly Chief Executive, Ogilvy Group.
Ogilvy, one of Ireland’s leading Advertising and communications agency, have announced that they will be hosting Dublin’s Portfolio Night 9, for the second year running.
This year’s event, will take place in Ogilvy’s offices in 6 Ely Place, Dublin 2 on Thursday evening, May 26. Portfolio Night 9 will be held simultaneously in over 40 cities around the world, from Athens to Tunis, where the best of the present meets the best of the years to come, to celebrate creative talent and to guide emerging creatives as they begin their careers in the industry.
The event is designed to help students and aspiring young creatives around the world break into the advertising industry and to showcase the next generation of creative talent. So, if you are a final year design or advertising student, Portfolio Night is a wonderful opportunity to get first hand feedback and one-to-one mentoring with some of Ireland’s top Creative Directors in a ‘speed-dating’ style!
Each participant will receive three 15-minute portfolio review sessions with three Creative Directors, who will offer them advice on improving their portfolios. The evening will also be a great chance to network with senior people in the creative industry and exchange ideas and conversations.
Tickets are on sale now at only €20!
About Portfolio Night
Twitter: http://twitter.com/PNDublin#
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/PortfolioNightDublin?sk=wall
Web: http://www.portfolionight.com
Con Kennedy has been featured in the renowned German design and typography magazine PAGE.
Following on from the AtypI conference in September, where three of Con’s typeface designs were discussed as part of a presentation about the classification of non-Latin alphabets, the article entitled “Typoszene Irland” discusses current Irish typography and design in a modern context and includes an interview with Con Kennedy.
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.
Twitter: @g6series
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