WE HAVE MOVED OFFICE
Please note our new contact details:
Institute of Designers in Ireland,
FX2 the Fumbally Exchange,
Fumbally Square,
Dublin 8.
Email: info@idi-design
Telephone: 01 4537492
Office hours: Tuesdays – Wednesdays from 10am – 6pm.
Please note our new contact details:
Institute of Designers in Ireland,
FX2 the Fumbally Exchange,
Fumbally Square,
Dublin 8.
Email: info@idi-design
Telephone: 01 4537492
Office hours: Tuesdays – Wednesdays from 10am – 6pm.
Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2012 is now open for entries. The Award calls upon designers, companies, design institutions and design studios to submit their latest and best idea, as a product with good design, to the competition.
The aim of the award is to be the defining platform that separates good ideas with good design solutions from the mediocre, to provide a professional evaluation and internationally recognized seal that gives an advantage to the design and designer in the competitive market. Read more: http://red-dot.sg
It’s that time of year again when we invite you to renew your Institute of Designers in Ireland Membership.
We have just launched a new facility on the IDI website where you can renew your membership online.
As it is the first year of the new system you will be asked to complete a membership application form. In future years you can renew your membership quickly using you username and password that will be generated when you renew now. You can now pay by Credit Card, PayPal, Direct Debit or Electronic Funds Transfer.
Our new system will make it a lot easier for you to renew your membership each year and give you access to manage your directory listing and profile page online, however, as this system is still in development please bear with us while we iron out any teething issues. If you coming across any glitches in the form please let us know.
We are delighted to announce the IDI is now offering a Corporate Membership option. Corporate membership is for companies with at least two employees working as professional designers. Find out more.
As part of the website improvements we have also launched a new online members directory. Once your membership renewal has been processed your details will be included in the new directory.
In the coming weeks a new Member Login area will be available giving you access to login update your directory listing and include images from your portfolio on your profile page. We will keep you posted as soon as this is available.
Please note our new contact details:
Institute of Designers in Ireland,
FX2 the Fumbally Exchange,
Fumbally Square,
Dublin 8.
Email: info@idi-design
Telephone: 01 4537492
Office hours: Tuesdays – Wednesdays from 10am – 6pm.
Hiberform is a new collection of screens, sculptural structures and furniture products designed for use in offices, hospitality, retail and domestic spaces.
These designs have been created for contemporary spaces, where clean lines, functional and colourful structures are required to give vibrancy to the interior.
Room dividers are available in a range of sizes and colours to suit any interior scheme and can be configured in dramatic yet practical layouts. The design team can also create custom solutions and modifications to any product and our high tech production network enables an efficient, high quality supply chain.
Designer
Leo Scarff has been a product designer for over twenty years, studying and working in Scandinavia before setting up his own design studio in Dublin in 1997. He has been fascinated by natural and man made structures for many years and developed the Hiberform collection from his research in this area. The idea for the collection originated more than 2 years ago when Leo began developing a series of sculptural structures from his research in natural form and Geodesics. The nature of these structures required computer navigated router and laser cutting processes to produce the components. However, having recently relocated to the creative hub of north west Ireland – Manorhamilton, Co.Leitrim it was necessary to locate several high tech local manufacturers with the capabilities in these areas.
A new production network was established in 2009 and Leo began prototyping his ideas last year which culminated in a residency at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre, followed by the ‘Futurescapes’ exhibition at the centre in May of this year. Many of the ideas for the Hiberform collection came from the sculptural works in this show and we are now delighted to officially launch Hiberform. Visit the website for more information on all the products including downloadable PDF files taken from the catalog which is available by post by contacting: info@hiberform.com
For more information please visit: www.hiberform.com
Date: Wednesday 25th January 2012
Time: 9.30-11.30am
Venue: Dublin City Enterprise Board, 5th Floor O’ Connell Bridge House, D’Olier St., Dublin 2
Fee: €5 Book now (click on the link to book)
tel: (01) 635 1144
email: ecurley@dceb.ie
The objective of the information session is a networking opportunity to meet other architect and interior design businesses (trading for at least 1 year in business) to meet and share information, experiences and solutions with your peers. We like to encourage networking and lots of interaction, Q&A. The guest speaker is the inspirational George Boyle.
The format is mostly discussion, questions & answers.
Founder of the Fumbally Exchange:
Innovation Hub at the Heart of the Liberties
Architectural and Strategic Planning Practice
Founder of the Heart of the Liberties Project
George is a quixotic, determined, liberal architect and earth mother in a hat. Born in Dublin in 1970, she graduated in architecture with honours in 1992 from University College Dublin. In 1997 she became a member of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland and the Royal Institute of British Architects, and after working in various practices during the early 1990s, was with international practice Murray Ó’Laoire Architects from 1995 – 2010, where she was an (outspoken) associate director
George established her own practice in 2010 and determined to confront the impacts of recession in architecture and related sectors head-on. In pursuit of reform and innovation she established Fumbally Exchange in July 2010, a hub for entrepreneurs and creative professionals collaborating for change – Making Work. Together – in the heart of the Liberties in Dublin 8. Within a year participant business numbers in Fumbally Exchange swelled to 60 and the organisation is expanding to other locations nationwide in 2012. George was a winner of the Arthur Guinness Fund Social Entrepreneurship award in 2011 for her work with Fumbally Exchange.
George studied violin, cello, piano and Irish and pedal harp and is an associate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music (teaching and performance). She taught cello, Irish harp and general musicianship from 1986 to 1995 before turning her full focus to the creative platform in architecture.
George is a published columnist, writer and award-winning designer at both national and international level. Projects in her portfolio include framework development plan, development control plan and phased projects at Leinster House and the houses of the Oireachtas with the OPW; masterplan and staged phases of development at Belvedere College, SJ, Dublin; student residences at Trinity Hall, Dartry for Trinity College Dublin; masterplan at Carton House & Demesne; Meath Strand strategic plan; Cromcastle masterplan; Waterford Crystal village; fitouts for the National Women’s Council of Ireland, Rockland GAA, National Hurleymaking Academy, and many other projects. She specialises in strategic thinking, service design, framework planning, masterplanning and legal advisory services in addition to having an iconic design style. She is an RIAI accredited Conservation Architect (Gd III).
George also works in a private capacity in a number of collaborative partnerships in architecture, design and adventures in other creative areas. She lives on the Grand Canal in Inchicore, which may, someday, be significant.
The Institute of Designers in Ireland in association with PIVOT Dublin has accepted an invitation to participate in the Helsinki WDC 2012 International Design House Exhibition – ‘Everyday Discoveries’ – to be held in September 2012.
A competition to select a design team which can best develop a response to the ‘Everyday Discoveries’ themes, one which represents Dublin’s design know how and philosophy, took the form of a design challenge which was held on the 5th and 6th November 2011 in the Wood Quay Venue.
View the results here:
The winning team of the Provoke the Everyday design challenge, is led by Steven McNamara of Roji Design, and also includes Chris Hingel (Graphic Designer/Illustrator), Clive Bright (Painter/Carpenter/Farmer), Iseult O’Clery (Architect), Dónal Adams (Computer Programmer).
‘Everyday Discoveries’ will take place in a disused industrial complex offering a series of indoor and outdoor spaces. The outdoor spaces serve as platforms for interactive design events and test grounds for design objects, while the indoor spaces are reserved for more classic exhibitions. The event is built around four themes – ACTIVISM, PLAY, STORY and MEMORY – in order to engage the public to enjoy different aspects of everyday life in different settings. The themes mix, but also emphasise the cultural differences and customs of the participating countries. The themes will grow and live according to the proposals sent from
each country, presenting the main concerns and interests in a global context.
This World Design Capital 2012 signature event is co-ordinated and produced by Design Forum Finland www.designforum.fi, the promotion organisation for Finnish design. The exhibition concept and themes are created by Imu Design www.imudesign.org, a group of three young Finnish designers.
The IDI Graduate Awards 2011 winners:
As 2011 is the International Year of Craft and the World Crafts Council visited Ireland in June, this year for the first time we had a Craft Product category.
Highly Commended:
Julia Schreckenbach - NCAD
Winner:
Miriam Wade – NCAD
Title: Craft Collection
Miriam created craft metal forms that are complex, intricate and highly innovative. Her work combines the latest computer aided design and manufacturing techniques with hand craft metalworking processes.
This year we had a large number of fashion entries which is really terrific to see.
Highly Commended:
Aoife Conroy - NCAD
Clarisse Walsh - NCAD
Trudy Feighery - NCAD
Winner:
Mona Atkinson – NCAD
Title: Fashion Collection
The judging panel, led by Aileen Dempsey, was very impressed with the playful and delicate nature of Mona’s fashion collection. The work incorporates a mix of garments, materials and accessories to create a wonderful visual impact.
This years entries were particularly interesting and of a very high standard.
Highly Commended:
Pauline Geheniaux – Dublin Institute of Technology
Victor Manuel Nunes Silva Branco – University of Ulster
Winner:
Catriona Sheehan – DIT
Title: Academy of Irish Dance
Michelle Hetherington said: ‘There is an interesting juxtaposition between the old building and a new extension……Form & volume are cleverly expressed both internally & externally. From a presentation point of view, the designer displays a well-honed 3d imaging capability, illustrating light, colour, volume, texture to great effect. ‘
The product design category received a very eclectic range of entries this year from molecular gastronomy and service design to music mixing devices and even humorous dog lighting.
Highly Commended:
Cian Corcoran – NCAD
Winner:
Ben Millet – NCAD
Project Title: Mount Kestrel
From his experience working as a part-time professional photographer Ben identified a gap in the market for hand held DSLR video motion steady. The Mount Kestrel is a duo pod that steadies the DSLR camera as the photographer actively moves around.
Once again we received a huge increase in entries to the textiles category this year thanks to the collective efforts of the IDI education team.
Winner:
Honor Scanlon – NCAD
Oversized Backpack Collection
Honor produced a wonderfully coloured series of oversized backpacks inspired by tribal body painting. The work combines a wide range of textiles techniques all mastered to a very high standard. Honor has a keen sense of fun, flair and style in series that has evident commercial appeal.
This category is particularly competitive and pitches a number of very high quality colleges against one another.
Commended:
Tara Kelly - IADT
Highly Commended:
Hana Hudakova - Dublin Institute of Technology
Vita Dobson - IADT - Donate.ie
Emma Fenlon - IADT - Model making at IADT
Winner:
Emma Fenlon – IADT
Executive Philanthropy Network
The judges were very impressed with the design concept for this years winning design project.
Fatcat is an executive philanthropy network for the world’s wealthiest. It stands for “Financial Aid Through Charity and Trade”. The entire project is a magazine, website and promotional video.’
This year we received more postgraduate visual communication entries than in the previous three years of the competition. The standard of work was highly innovative.
Winner:
Mary Plunkett- NCAD
Night Prayer: A Contemporary Book of Hours by Letterpress and Print
Mary says her ‘……work is a contemporary presentation of an extract of the Devine Office, following in the tradition of the illuminated Book of Hours. Mary’s work is an outstanding example of contemporary visual communication and a worthy winner of the Masters Award.
Selecting the Graduate Design Grand Prix winner was extremely difficult. The panel of jurors deliberated long and hard before making their decision. The overall winner of this year’s award was selected for their outstanding creative innovation, professional use of both traditional and state of the art technologies. I am delighted, in the International Year of Craft to announce that this years Graduate
Design Grand Prix winner:
Miriam Wade – NCAD
Aileen Dempsey – Fashion and Textiles
Michelle Hetherington – Interior Architecture
Lorraine Egan – Fashion, Textiles, Craft Product, Product
Andrew Bradley – Visual Communication, Product
Nigel Mc Guinness – Visual Communication
The Crafts Council of Ireland is proposing to amend the name of the organisation to include the word ‘design’ in the name.
Please take the time to read the information below provided by the Crafts Council to you insure that you as part of the Design community have your voice is heard!
The survey will take only a few moments of your time and it must be completed by Friday 25th November, it is available at
The 4 proposed names choices are:
- The Crafts & Design Council of Ireland
- The Design & Crafts Council of Ireland
- Ireland’s Crafts & Design Council
- Ireland’s Design & Crafts Council
The CCOI is not proposing to be a general Design Council and not intending to increase the remit of the CCOI beyond design of craft. They confirmed that they do not have a broader long term strategy in this regard. The IDI is concerned that Government would be unlikely to fund more than 1 organisation in the design area and also that the perception could be that CCOI with it’s new title could now be perceived as representing all design disciplines which it will not.
Please forward to all our members as we know that it is a issue that many have strong views on.
Background to the proposal to amend the name of the Crafts Council of Ireland:
http://ccoi.newsweaver.ie/tf5bnaypul3j8nicx9uws4?email=true&a=11&p=18789835
Margaret Crerar of Miele, Carol Coffey IDI President, Grand Prix Winners Honora Egan & Gregory Tobin from Spear Technologies
The 13th annual IDI Design Awards took place on Thursday 27th October in The Sugar Club and President of the IDI, Carol Coffey MIDI said “in today’s economic climate it is important now more than ever to highlight Ireland’s creative talent and the awards are a wonderful way to do this”. With award winning designs for clients such as Logitech, Broadstock, RTE, Brown Thomas and Concern Worldwide it shows that Ireland’s design professionals can compete with the best both home and abroad.
“Our annual IDI Awards celebrate significant achievement in a broad spectrum of design disciplines in Ireland. It is only through the IDI Awards that you can clearly see the very impressive level of design innovation achieved by our creative industries on the international stage.”
The IDI Design Awards encompasses the only design competition which is judged by an international jury, and which highlights the very best of Irish Design in the following categories: Interior and Exhibition design, TV, Film and Theatre design, Fashion, Visual Communications, Multimedia and Product design.
Read Assist designed by Gregory Tobin and Honora Egan for Spear Technologies
The Grand Prix winner chosen from nine winning design categories was an innovative product called the Read Assist designed by Gregory Tobin and Honora Egan for Spear Technologies. This product helps people with reading difficulties to become more confident readers. It was declared a clear winner by all the jury who declare it a refreshingly straightforward and uncomplicated design solution to a very real problem.
Brian Stephens CEO Design Partners recieves the Lifetime Achievement Award 2011
Among the highlights of the evening was the presentation of an IDI Lifetime Awards to Brian Stephens of Design Partners.
Brian Stephens is founder and CEO of Design Partners, a multi disciplinary industrial design practice based in Bray, Ireland and in San Jose, California. Besides growing and developing the firm, Brian advises clients on product strategy and on the integration of their brand values into the whole product experience.
Prior to founding Design Partners with David Morgan in 1984, he spent two and a half formative years in GK design Tokyo where he worked on product planning and automotive design projects. His project work has won numerous international design awards including a joint IDSA gold award. Besides supporting the Design Partners team, his proudest creative achievement is to see several of the products the consultancy designed in the 80’s still earning revenue for clients today.
Brian studied design at Birmingham Polytechnic having won a Córas Tráchtála student scholarship and a Royal Society of the Arts travel bursary. He is a former council member of the SDI and former chairperson of Dalkey School Project. He is a member of the Irish Technology leadership group and of the Industrial Designers Society of America.
Also to walk away with a coveted eye trophy on the night was:
Special Outstanding Contribution to Design in Ireland
Pivot Dublin Team
Residential Interiors
‘Mullaghmore’ by Cornelia Hope, John Monohan and Lisa Mc Sharry from Peter Legge Associates
Commercial Interiors
‘TRULIFE’ by Ronan Holohan, Linda Mc Manus, Paul Murphy, Lukasz Grzywacz from Millimetre Design
TV/FILM Title Design & Branding
‘TRTÉ: Channel Brand’ by Alan Dunne from RTÉ Graphic Design Department
TV/Film/Theatre Production/Set Design
‘Winning Streak’ by Sinead O’Hanlon from RTÉ
Promotional Literature/Publications
‘DECADE’ by Mark Case from Whitenoise Design
Annual Reports
‘Concern Worldwide Annual Report’ by Mary Doherty from Red Dog Design Consultants
Website Design
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Website by Karen Hanratty from Pixel Design
Furniture Design
“Less” Office Furniture System by John Walsh from Made
This year the Graduate Design award’s Grand Prix winner went to Miriam Wade from the National College of Art and Design for her Craft Product.
The Institute of Designers in Ireland is the only professional body representing the interests of all Irish design disciplines. Its function is to promote high standards of design, to foster professionalism and to emphasise the designer’s responsibility to society, to the client and to each other. The winners of the awards will also be included in the Best of Irish Design Handbook which will be distributed throughout the year as an illustration of the high calibre of design talent we have on the island of Ireland.
The Awards are supported by Enterprise Ireland, RTÉ, SDL and Miele.
The full list of winners, highly commended and commended entries can be seen at
Photography by Paul Sherwood
www.sherwood.ie
Live from Galway: Senior Editor Anne Marie Mohan visits two Galway companies that provide package design consulting services for medical device manufacturers.
On the eve of the one-day MedinIreland – Medical Technology and Healthcare Expo 2011 event in Dublin, Ireland, Healthcare Packaging was treated to a day on the country’s west coast in Galway to meet with two innovative companies supporting the country’s booming medical device industry. The companies, Anecto and Advant Medical, will be exhibiting at the trade show and conference on Oct. 27, hosted by Enterprise Ireland, a state agency responsible for supporting the development of manufacturing and internationally traded services companies.
Over the last 35 years, Ireland has become renowned for its medical products industry, with exports of life science products accounting for $56.8 billion in 2010, according to the Central Statistics Office of Ireland. Galway, in particular, is a hub for medical device manufacturers. This makes it an ideal location for companies such as Anecto and Advant, which provide services not only to local businesses, but also to U.S.-based companies interested in doing business in Europe.Anecto, in business since 1994, is an ISO 17025-accredited test facility that provides independent test services, including product and packaging testing, custom test equipment, and protocol development. In addition, Anecto has distinguished itself by offering consulting services in package design, reliability, and regulatory affairs.
As Jason Delaney, business development at Anecto, explained, for many medical device manufacturers, packaging design for product usability and adherence to regulatory requirements often comes as an “afterthought,” where the true financial and marketing impact of a failed package is only realized at the package validation stage. “Packaging is not at the core of what they do,” he said, adding that many times medical device manufacturers believe—erroneously—that their packaging supplier has the regulatory expertise to guide them to the proper packaging solutions.
To address this lack of expertise, Anecto offers package design services that focus on optimization for package usability and reliability. Their team of multidisciplinary experts works from the beginning stages of a new device development project to help guide the package design so that it will sail through package validation with ease. “This allows the medical device manufacturer to focus on their core capabilities,” said Michael Connolly, sales director for Anecto.
And, because it is not affiliated with any packaging suppliers, Anecto says it can be “packaging agnostic,” recommending the most cost-effective and reliable materials and solutions.
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