Welcome to the 20th annual Irish Design Awards! more

Booking is now open for our Spring training programmes. more

IDI memberships are up for annual renewal on 1st January each year. more

Sorry for making you wait...Tickets for this great event (at CHQ at Custom House Quay, Dublin 1) are always sought after and are on sale via Eventbrite. Don't leave it too late, as space is limited. It will be Epic. more

The 2018 Grand Prix Winner was announced as Shauna Buckley who was prize-winner in four categories. The exhibition of these graduating student entries from graduates of 12 colleges all over Ireland opened on December 6th and will continue until December 12th. List of winners here. more

The Professional Diploma in UX Design will allow you in becoming a certified user experience professional. Enrolment deadline 19th January 2019, Course commences 6th February 2019. more

Are you an ambitious design studio owner who wants to take your business to the next level? more

First there were almost 500 projects...now we are down to just the 98 finalists! Congratulations to all our graduating students from 12 different colleges who made the 2018 IDI Graduate Design Awards Shortlist. 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 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

Join us on November 8 for a deep dive into the topics that pose the greatest challenges for leading a design team. 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

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

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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

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