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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The Green Way

DIT final year design student exhibition fundraiser

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.

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Crafting Type: The Power of Language and the Hands That Craft it.

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:

• Orlaith Ross
• Mary Plunkett
• Jamie Murphy
• Naoise O’Conchubhair
• Thomas Glendon
• Gareth Colgan
• Logan McLain
• James Cullen
• Cian Corcoran
• Suzanne Murphy

Entry to the exhibition is free, and is open 10-5pm daily.

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Pivot Dublin event

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.

DIT Grad Show 2011

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

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Paperfree Project

Paperfree project in an undertaking by students of Creative Digital Media in the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, who are researching how students can start their career and gain employment with in the sector.

Their website contains podcasts, lectures and interviews with professionals working in related creative fields and the site is building a great resource for those studying digital media.

For more information see
http://paperfreeproject.com

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Typoszene Irland

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.

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G6 Series

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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