Archive for the ‘Design Events’ Category

Between the Lines

between_the_lines_poster

After four years of conceptualizing, brainstorming and pencil-chewing, 36 Visual Communications students are ready to probe the alluring world of design professionalism. Bringing Limerick to Dublin, LSAD final year students are hosting an exhibition event to showcase our work. Through projects on the theme of Truth, the event is an opportunity to discover our concepts, approach and design work. Join us for a night full of creativity and craic!

SCHEDULE:
Thursday March 8th, 7pm.

VENUE:
The Loft, South Studios, 27/28 New Row South, Dublin 8.

DMI Night Out – Thursday 09 February

DMI Night Out

DMI’s first events, held in the mid-1970s, developed from a small group of Design Managers confessing the challenges they were facing in their roles, and sharing solutions, methods and empathies over a few beers. DMI Night Out continues this tradition of like-minded people sharing their knowledge around current issues facing design leaders.

“These are not business as usual times”

Join the conversation at DMI Night Out at Griffith College on 9 February 2012. A good old-fashioned roundtable (which might not be a table or round), that will be an honest discussion on what you are doing to lead over, around and throughthese challenging times. Come share what you’re doing more of… less of… in this new normal business of design.

Hosted by DMI members, DMI Night Out will provide a local source of support and partnership for today’s critical issues, connecting cross-disciplinary design and business leaders in their communities—a local gathering of DMI members and the extended community of design leaders, with the goal of fostering community, collaboration, and content that informs and inspires.

Get the Details / Join us February 9 in Dublin!

There is no charge to attend and the event is open to members and non-members, but space is limited. RSVP now, and see you at Night Out!

21st Century Icons Exhibition – until April 15, 2011

19th November 2011  -  15th April 2012
Rathfarnham Castle

The function of jewellery has always been to convey status. This was particularly true of the torc, whose ostentatious size and weight by itself could communicate the force and power of the wearer. The bronze and golden neckwear of the Celts is understood to have had a ritual significance, often being buried with the dead as their currency for the next life, to have functioned as a signifier of Royalty, and to have denoted the wearer as a Celt. It sometimes even had practical applications, such as closing a cloak.

In contemporary usage, the torc has become an object of kitsch, often geared towards the tourist. Contemporary examples abound on the web, never managing to really explore the significance of the object and the possibilities of re-interpretation. If we were to design neckpieces now that conveyed something about us – as Irish – to the world, what would they say? And what would they look like? Would they be gold? Recycled? Injection moulded? Would they be images of power and beauty? Shackles? Or blue collars?

This exhibition is an opportunity for makers to suggest some answers…

Find out more information on the Crafts Council of Ireland Website.

Saturday Talks Series: Talking Objects

The MA Design History & Material Culture present

Saturday Talks Series: Talking Objects

at the National Museum of Decorative Arts and History, Collins Barracks.

Taking place on the second Saturday of January, February and March, this series of talks is designed to showcase fascinating new research on objects within the National Museum collection. All talks will be given by graduates of the MA Design History & Material Culture at the National College of Art and Design. All talks will take place in the National Museum of Decorative Arts and History, Collins Barracks. Please meet at 12.15pm at Main Reception.

All talks are free of charge. For further information contact bookings@museum.ie or Dr Anna Moran, morana[AT]ncad.ie (Coordinator of the MA Design History & Material Culture, NCAD)

11 February 2012, 12.30-1.00pm
‘Green-Coated Irishmen’ –The National Army Uniform from 1922 to 1939
Hannah Mullan

10 March 2012, 12.30-1.00pm
Limerick Gloves –A Curious Case of Leather Craftsmanship, 1780–1840
Liza Foley

Find more information on the NCAD website

Pub Standards

What is it?

Pub Standards is a regular meetup for web designers & developers.
It has been running in London and other cities since 2005, and in Dublin since 2010.

Who’s it for?

Pub Standards is open to everyone. It’s loosely aimed at web design & development geeks, but that doesn’t mean chitchat need necessarily be work-related.  Don’t expect structure, don’t expect presentations, just relax with likeminded people and a few beers.

This is the post-conference drink-up, without the conference

Where?

The Bull & Castle, beside Christ Church, Dublin City. You’ll find us in the beer hall upstairs.

Find out more information on the Pub Standards website

Interaction12 – Dublin Feb 01–04

interaction12 dublin feb 01-04

Interaction12 is a four-day event in Dublin where keynotes and speakers from around the world will represent all connections to Interaction Design.

This is the fifth annual conference hosted by the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). Each year, IxDA aims to gather the interaction design community to connect, educate, and inspire each other.

Keynotes:

Dr. Genevieve Bell: Director of User Interaction and Experience in Intel Labs
Amber Case: Cyborg Anthropologist & User Experience Designer
Anthony Dunne: Professor and Head of Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art London
Fabian Hemmert: Design Researcher, TEDx talker
Jonas Löwgren: Professor of Interaction Design & Co-founder of the School of Arts & Communication , Malmö University Sweden
Luke Williams: Author, Professor & Fellow at Frog Design

See full list of 75 speakers

Snapshot of 75 Talks

THURSDAY 2ND

  • Design Language for Interactions
  • Artificial Emotional Intelligence: Designing interactions for emotional awareness
  • Beyond Modernism: What Interaction Designers Can Learn from the Architecture of Zaha Hadid
  • See all talks on Thursday 2nd

FRIDAY 3RD

  • Beyond Gamification: Architecting Engagement Through Game Design Thinking
  • Concept to Code: Code literacy in UX
  • Core Principles of UX Management: Educating, Mentoring and Inspiring Your Team
  • See all talks on Friday 3rd

SATURDAY 4TH

  • Ethnographic Animation: Using 3D animation as a UX tool for business and education
  • Designing Play for Pigs and Humans
  • How to Lie with Design Thinking
  • Why We Share: Motivations at the Heart of Sharing
  • See all talks on Saturday 4th

DOWNLOAD AN OVERVIEW OF THE FOUR-DAY EVENT (pdf)
VISIT WEBSITE

Irish Design Shop launches at the RHA

irish design shop

Following the unprecedented success of the RHA Pop UP Shop during 2011, the Irish Design Shop will be taking up residency in the RHA, launching Wednesday 7 December, 5 – 7pm.

“We are delighted to be launching our second shop in such a prestigious establishment as the RHA. We intend to work along side the gallery, selling work that reflects the exhibitions on show at the time, as well as continuing to promote new, up and coming Irish designers and makers.” Clare & Laura, Irish Design Shop

Irish Design Shop launched as an on-line craft and design store in November 2008. Shortly after, in February 2009, they opened their first permanent shop on Bow Lane East, Dublin 2. Specialising in solely Irish designed and made products, they have grown from strength to strength and are now opening their second shop, here in the RHA gallery. The shop intends to act as a gift shop for the RHA, selling gallery publications, as well as a special selection of exciting Irish designed and made products.

Open 7 days a week, you will find wooden lamps with Aran inserts by Cillian Johnston, lampshades and textiles by Sinead Mitchell, laser cut decorations and cards by Snowed, a range of Irish inspired notebooks by Ursula Celano, stationary by Keep Sketch and limited edition books and prints by The Project Twins subject being the A-Z of difficult words. Discover new work by designers you may already know; Jenny Walsh, Product/furniture designer has just developed a range of clocks called ‘time flies’ in laser cut wood. Andrew Ludicks hand built and decorated ceramics compliment Derek Wilsons porcelain ware. Quercus, a Cork based company who make bird feeders in native oak will sit alongside chopping boards by Little Hill. See Jennifer Slattery’s embroidered Irish linen and work by Placed, a Belfast company who make tea towels, prints and stationary and you will also find 3D printed jewellery by Theresa Burger.

Irish Design Shop would like to offer a generous 10% discount to Friends of the RHA, throughout the year. Please show your membership card at time of purchase to avail of offer.

With various book signings, designer evenings and events planned for 2012, it promises to be a very exciting year for Irish Design Shop at the RHA.For further information and images please contact ciara@rhagallery.ie. Phone 01 6612558 http://www.royalhibernianacademy.ie

Typography Ireland: December Drinks and Reading List

Gradcam Seminar Room Dec 2nd, 3.30pm

Following the last couple of very busy (and well attended) Typography Ireland seminars and our Design Week symposium, for our next event on December 2nd, we’re returning to our usual base at Gradcam, John’s Lane West and we’ll be kicking back a little. Over the last year, the idea of putting together a reading list for the seminar group has been raised by attendees as something that would be useful as the focus of future seminar discussions.

On Friday 2nd of December, at 3.30pm we’ll be opening to the floor the discussion of what reading material we might include on the list. We invite suggestions and contributions to the list on the subject of typography, particularly under the following themes: Typeface classification, definitions of typography, typographic criticism and theory, changing technologies of typeface design and typography, historical and contemporary accounts of the practice of typography. These, however are just initial guidelines.

Following our initial discussion, (and a few pre-emptive mince pies!) we will be retiring to a local hostelry to continue the discussion and raise a glass to the success of the last year! All are very welcome.

Design Week 2011: 31 Oct – 6 Nov

Design Week 2011 Brochure

Design Week 2011 in association with Crown Paints will take place from
Monday 31 October to Sunday 6 November 2011.

» Download the Design Week 2011 Brochure (PDF)

Design in Ireland in 2011 has moved towards the centre of the stage.
The short-listing of Dublin’s World Design Capital 2014 submission, entitled Pivot
Dublin
, has focused worldwide attention on design in Ireland. The world is aware
of the economic crisis that faces Ireland, and it is interested to see how we are using
design to find a way to overcome the significant challenges that we all face.

The Pivot Dublin submission presents a fantastic snapshot of design in Ireland today.
Fifty years ago, in 1961, the Report of the Scandinavian Design Group in Ireland was
commissioned. Designers came and told us what we had been doing and what we
should be doing. The Pivot Dublin submission tells the world not only what we have
been doing and are doing, but, crucially, what we will be doing. The plans are
ambitious and they will need your involvement.

Irrespective of the World Design Capital 2014 result, the design community is working
closely with Helsinki, World Design Capital 2012, and actively developing links with
the other short-listed cities, Cape Town and Bilbao.

Design Week is an all-island event, and our attention is not just on the Dublin region.
Events are taking place throughout Ireland, and we continue to develop links with
individuals, collectives or organisations that have an interest in design. This year,
Design Week has developed an association with Innovation Dublin. Design and
creativity are integral to innovation, and we are delighted that this year design is
the central theme of Innovation Dublin. Relationships are essential to the structure
of Design Week and we welcome approaches from anyone with an interest in
getting involved.

For many years at Design Week we have had a featured designer present a key
speech. Luminaries such as Tom Dixon, Karim Rashid, Thomas Heatherwick and
Wayne Hemingway have all provided the key address. This year we are delighted
that the young Irish designer Úna Burke will fill that role, at the Design Week launch
on 2 November.

Design exists because we do. It is not an additional component of our daily lives
and activities, but rather, it is central to them. Design Week celebrates everything
that relates to design and its various stakeholders: designers themselves, the clients
who commission design services, and, most importantly, the general public, the users
of design. Design Week does not magically appear each year. You make it happen.
To everyone involved at every level, we say thank you.

Together with Crown Paints, sponsors of Design Week 2011, we wish you a most
enjoyable festival.

For further information visit pivotdublin.com and designweek.ie

 

OFFSET 2012 lineup announced

OFFSET 2012

OFFSET, Dublin’s creative festival, returns to the Grand Canal Theatre next March 9/10/11 2012.

With 25 leading creative lights on the main stage, a second room for debates and discussion, interviews and lots more planned, this edition will be the biggest and brightest yet.

LINEUP

Andrew Essex @ Droga5 (USA) http://www.droga5.com
Antoine et Manuel (France) http://www.antoineetmanuel.com
Conor & David (Ireland) http://www.conoranddavid.com
Conor Harrington (Ireland) http://www.conorharrington.com
Eike König @ Hort (Germany) http://www.hort.org.uk
Erik Kessels @ Kesselkramer (Netherlands) http://www.kesselskramer.nl
Evan Hecox (USA) http://www.evanhecox.com
Friends With You (USA) http://www.friendswithyou.com
Jessica Hische (USA) http://www.jessicahische.is
Johnny Kelly (Ireland) http://www.mickeyandjohnny.com
Kevin Waldron (Ireland) http://www.kevinwaldron.co.uk
Kyle Cooper @ Prologue Films http://www.prologue.com
Matt Clark @ United Visual Artists (UK) http://www.uva.co.uk
Michael Beirut @ Pentagram (USA) http://www.pentagram.com
Niall Sweeney & Nigel Truswell @ Pony (Ireland / UK) http://www.ponybox.co.uk
Olly Moss (UK) http://www.ollymoss.com
Paula Scher @ Pentagram (USA) http://www.pentagram.com
Richard Gilligan (Ireland) http://www.richgilligan.com
Rinzen (Australia) http://www.rinzen.com
Seymour Chwast (USA) http://www.pushpininc.com
Shepard Fairey / OBEY (USA) http://www.obeygiant.com
Stefan Sagmeister (Austria) http://www.sagmeister.com
Steve Simpson (UK) http://www.stevesimpson.com
Von (UK) http://www.hellovon.com

TICKET INFO

http://iloveoffset.com/tickets/

Early Bird Ticket – 150 euros (until 31st January)
Student/Unwaged – 120 euro (Promo CODE required – contact OFFSET for details)
General Ticket – 180 euro (from 1st February 2012)

GROUP RATE – 6 FOR 5 OFFER
Organise your friends and colleagues and you can each get your ticket for:
100 (Student/Unwaged)
120 (Early Bird)
150 (Full Price)

STAGGERED PAYMENT
Students you can now pay 50% at time of purchase and 50% on 31st January

FURTHER INFO & TICKETS

http://iloveoffset.com