First there were almost 500 projects...now we are down to just the 98 finalists!!..Congratulations to all our graduating students from 13 different colleges who made the 2018 IDI Graduate Design Awards Shortlist. A big thank you to our judges who worked over a number of weeks on this. Thanks again to Arup, CEUD, Boxclever and to IADT for all the support, help and advice on this. The exhibition and prize-giving will take place in IADT at the end of November - more details will be announced very shortly. more
Over 150 of Ireland’s most influential Design Leaders met to engage with international speakers in a series of formal talks and breakout sessions. more
The date for Graduate Design Awards prize-giving will be announced very soon and will also be published widely on our social channels. These finalists chosen as part of our Grad Awards 2018 exhibition at IADT represent a wide range of design colleges across the country and the very best of student work in Ireland. more
The DEADLINE has been EXTENDED to 09th November 2018. We are inviting designers to submit their most innovative recently realised projects as entries for the 20th year of the IDI Irish Design Awards. Much more detail here including an exciting new partnership, on-line entry, and a major prize-giving gala event more
The workshop will walk participants through live innovation activities through applied learning, the tools, process and mindset to successfully conceive and launch products and services from world first radical innovations, to building internationally successful businesses. more
The future needs more world-class UX designers. The Professional Diploma in UX Design will allow you in becoming a certified user experience professional. Enrolment deadline 26th October 2018, Course commences 1st November 2018. more
Upcoming training programmes & workshops include: Professional Diploma in UX Design; Two Day Service Design Bootcamp; Presentation Skills Workshop; Design Thinking for Innovation. Reduced cost training is available to all IDI members. more
12 month programme commencing September 14th – Closing date for applications September 3rd
Launching Autumn 2018 Design Enterprise Skillnet Mentoring Programme partners industry leaders with senior design and creative agency owners & directors for a 12-month one-to-one mentoring relationship. more
Starting this September a free 5 module Graduate Onboarding Programme to support employers, helping their new graduate hires to develop the skills and insights needed at the vital early stage of their careers.
This course is strictly limited to 10 participants, early booking advised. Closing Date for Applications – Friday 31st August 2018. more
Kim Mackenzie Doyle’s busy year as IDI President came to an end formally at the recent 2018 AGM. She has now stepped down and Kirk McCormack takes over the Presidency at IDI. Two new Directors were also announced at the 2018 AGM. They are Danielle Townsend and Lesley Tully. more
The IDI are hosting a special edition of Bread & Butter for DRS2018 on 26th in Limerick as part of Design Research Society International Conference 2018- with speakers David Phelan, Noreile Breen, Philip Kenny and Matthew Griffin more
Entries flooded in.. almost 500 across the categories...These GDA 2018, an annual competition open to IDI student members and it represents the best of student design work from our colleges. The reviewing starts now!! more
IDI Member only event: International leader in brand creation, Andy Hoyne, will discuss: The Holy Grail of Creative, Culture and Profit; Thought leadership as a catalyst to achieve differantiation. more
The themes of featured papers include an examination of sustainability, ethics in design, the role of design and technology in the democratisation of local government. It also features interviews with legendary designers Ken Garland on his 60 year career in design and an interview with David Smith on the evolution of graphic design in the digital age. more
Thursday, March 8th from 7pm – Greenway, St Stephen's Green
With Annie Atkins an Oscar winning designer & Chris Do an Emmy Award Winning designer will speak at the event and to top it off, MC’D by the brilliantly funny Aoife Dooley. This is a ticket ONLY event and it is fully SOLD OUT. more
Avail of this offer..there is a membership price FREEZE for the month of January, from February 2018 we will be increasing the membership fees in the majority of categories so we can offer even more to our IDI members! more
Following on from the Design Leaders Conference in November, Design Enterprise Skillnet are delighted to announce a 6 month growth and profit programme aimed at ambitious design agency owners with Peter Czapp of the Wow Company. more
Mental Fitness for Business: What it is, how to develop it, and how it can transform your business. Guest Speaker Neil O’Brien, Thurs Jan 25th, 2018, 8am –10am Radisson Blu Hotel, Dublin 2 more
We had a busy 2017, new President, new initiatives with a successful Mind over Matter in November and Why Design, our established Bread and Butter social vent series was again a big success as was our extensive CPD and training initiatives from Design Enterprise including a large design Conference- The IDI Awards in September and Graduate Awards in November - both attracted biggest ever numbers of entries.. more below more
IDI Graduate Awards 2017 prize-giving evening on Nov 30th at IADT- The opening of exhibition of our final shortlist of 92 entries took place in IADT in Dún Laoghaire. This exhibition of the final shortlist of 92 entries to IDI Graduate Awards 2017 across 22 categories. more
The ballot boxes have been returned and opened, the votes have been counted, and double counted, and results of the Public Choice Award are now confirmed. more
Designer Andrea Arice of Windmill Lane Pictures takes the 2017 Grand Prix and the President's Prize for Outstanding Achievement goes to Diarmuid Gavin more
George Boyle's year as president came to an end formally when she handed over to our new IDI President, Kim Mackenzie Doyle at the AGM held at The Powerscourt Theatre, Dublin 2 on Friday May 5th more
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