The Design Summer Sessions is an online three-day festival of learning for creative minds to:

• Re-energise, connect and share
• Reboot their creative practice and business skills
• Hear from leading Irish and international designers and subject-matter experts in a wide range of matters relating to design.

All Design Summer Sessions are short, online sessions for our members to reconnect with their joy of design, consider their career progression, enhance their business skills and an opportunity to connect with their community. 

Come together with designers from diverse backgrounds and at various stages of their careers to get inspired, upskill and learn from subject-matter experts and leading design professionals discussing design trends, practice, thinking, processes, areas of expertise, useful tips and tricks in their fields, creative programmes and initiatives and build industry connections.

From Design Leadership, toolkits to help you Scale Up your Creative Business and Build your Business Brand to enhancing your career in UX to Showcase of Sustainable Solutions; there is a session tailored to every design discipline and career level!

Book Design Summer Sessions Tickets for as many workshops as you like from the booking list on Eventbrite.

The Design Summer Sessions are complimentary to current members of IDI working in the private or commercial semi-state sector and based in the Republic of Ireland. Non-member tickets may be purchased at €10 per session.

Design Summer Sessions 2024 – Schedule

Click on the events below to book your events, all events are free for IDI Members.

From Design Pro to Grow
From designers to successful studio owners with Jeannette Naughton
Wednesday 14th August, 9:30am-10:30am

IP for SMEs
Protect your Intellectual Property from Registration to Rights with John Milligan of Mason, Hayes & Curran LLP
Wednesday 14th August, 11am-12pm

A separate, specific session on IP for Fashion Design available for fashion designers at 10am on Friday, Aug 16th (online).

Creative Career Paths
Craft your Professional Charisma with Renata Dima
Wednesday 14th August, 1pm-2pm

Building Your Business Brand
Creative Business Owners Success Stories with Jeannette Naughton
Thursday 15th August, 8:30am-9:30am

The Foundations of Design Leadership
with James Hall from PARK
Thursday 15h August, 10am-11am

Advancing Design Leadership
with James Hall from PARK
Thursday 15th August, 12pm-1pm

UX Careers in the Age of AI
with Valentina Antunovic, UX Tree and Conor Normile, UX Design Institute joined by Riccardo Spina and Niamh Fahey
Thursday 15th August, 2pm-3pm

Discussions with Design Legends
Dee Corcoran In conversation with Irish Design Legend Andrew Bradley
Thursday,15th August, 4pm-5pm

IP for Fashion Designers
with Mary White of Stobbs
Friday, 16th August, 10am-11am

Climate-Conscious! Creatives: A Sustainability Strategy Showcase with sustainability strategists and climate-conscious creatives Róisín Jordan, George Dempsey and Stephen Ledwidge
Friday 16th August, 12-1pm

Browse through the full Design Summer Sessions Programme 2024 for more information!