The IDI Awards starts now... Are you all set to go?......Ready Steady...? 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

Theme: Badly Designed Dublin. Huckletree, 42 Pearse Street, Dublin. Wed 26th September at 7pm. Booking in advance on Eventbrite more

Join us on November 8 for a deep dive into the topics that pose the greatest challenges for leading a design team and running a successful creative studio. more

The Design Enterprise Skillnet offers subsidised training that is tailored specifically to the needs of designers and design practices based in Ireland. Reduced cost training is available to all IDI members. more

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

Tickets are now available for the launch of #MindOverMatter 2018 takes place on Thursday July 19th, at the Dean Hotel. 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

If you are a progressive company and would like to support the further development of #WhyDesign please contact president@IDI-Design.ie. more

Design Enterprise Skillnet Training Schedule Spring/Summer 2018 more

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

Are you an ambitious & successful agency owner who wants to take your business to the next level? 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!
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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.
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IDI Design Social have been busily cooking something up very special to end this years Bread and Butter Talk series on a High! 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
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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

The Design Enterprise Skillnet offers subsidised training that is tailored specifically to the needs of Irish designers and design practices across the country. more

2017 has ushered in a gale-force shift in global thinking. This is unsettling, destabilising and on many seismic levels, disturbing - no matter what side of perceptible divide you find yourself. more

Ireland - The Design Island, National Design Strategy - A consultation paper towards a National Design Strategy- It urges a sustained investment in design and proposes a series of actions for the strategic development of design and design thinking. Quote-p.10 'Design is about more than mere styling. It can be used as a tool to address the world’s biggest societal, cultural and environmental challenges, solving problems and improving universal needs and services. more

A new IDI Constitution was ratified at an EGM on Monday 19th 2016. This now aligns IDI's constitution and procedures with current legislation. IDI can now be fully legally compliant with the appropriate parts of The Companies Act 2014. more

THE IDI DESIGN AWARDS 2016- - Special Presentation to Grafton Architects at Marker Hotel event and Public Choice and Grand Prix announced. more