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IDI Graduate Awards 2023 Shortlist

IDI Graduate Awards 2023 Shortlist

Are you in? Discover the IDI Graduate Awards shortlist 2023. We can't wait to announce the final winners at the IDI Graduate Awards ceremony will be held in Ulster University’s Belfast School of Art on October 19th.

We’re excited to announce that the IDI Graduate Awards ceremony will be held in Ulster University’s Belfast School of Art on October 19th. 

All those shortlisted have been invited to attend the event where we will be celebrating the best of 2023’s design graduates across every category. If you received the invitation, please confirm your attendance ASAP so we know numbers. 

We can’t wait to celebrate 2023’s most outstanding and innovative graduate designers, and reveal the winners at our awards ceremony next month. Discover the IDI Graduate Awards shortlist 2023.

 

ANIMATION

DragonHerd — Niamh Farragher Letterkenny Institute of Technology LYIT (Now part of ATU)

Pitcher of You — Coireall Kent Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)

Living Life Like an Asshole — Natan Laba Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)

Midi 10 Motion graphic — Emma Nolan IADT

The Friend, The Dove & The Deer — Daire Powell NCAD

 

ARCHITECTURE

Anti-Festival of Conservation — Alex Macheta University College Cork

Feirm Chléire — Darren O'Connor Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)

Deciphering Naples: Radicalising the Urban — Patrick Staunton O'Doherty Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)

Nets of Future Memory — Maciej Walkowski Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)

 

INTERIOR DESIGN / INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE — COMMERCIAL / RESIDENTIAL

The Merchant Entertainment Venue — Aisling Geoghegan TU Dublin

Ballinacurra Maltings: Culinary Learning Landscape and Enclosure — Hannah McCarthy Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)

Multigenerational Community Centre at the former Presentation Convent Mitchelstown — Derval Mckeown Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)

Refresh, a refurbishment of the Sailors Home — Gintare Povilaityte Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)

The Recuperation Centre — Oluwademilade Sulaiman Griffith College Dublin

The Steam Mill, Wellness Centre — Emma Sweetnam Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)

 

INTERIOR DESIGN / INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE — PUBLIC

The Merchant Entertainment Venue — Aisling Geoghegan TU Dublin

The Picture House — Karen Keaney Institute of Technology Sligo (Now part of ATU)

Multigenerational Community Centre at the former Presentation Convent Mitchelstown — Derval Mckeown Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)

Refresh, a refurbishment of the Sailors Home — Gintare Povilaityte Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)

The Steam Mill, Wellness Centre — Emma Sweetnam Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)

Olivia Tait — Olivia Tait Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)

 

INTERACTION DESIGN

RoomFinder — Lauren Battersby IADT

Engage For Change — Kinga Kalecinska Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)

Homie — Conor O'Hara NCAD

Sea the Future — Hannah Rooney NCAD

 

TEXTILES

Berry Picking — Aine Doyle NCAD

Cuimhneas — Eva Kerley NCAD

Belonging Without Believing — Lorna Quinn NCAD

The Performed Feminine — Ava Thompson NCAD

Patterns of Shadows — Maya Todd Belfast School of Art (University Ulster)

 

FASHION DESIGN

Tread Softly — Mary Black Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)

Enamour — Mila Burov NCAD

Kez Ottman — Kez Ottman Polimoda

 

SUSTAINABLE FASHION & TEXTILES

Moving Forward — Looking Back, Sam Daly NCAD

Sćathach — Ellen Greenan Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)

Cuimhneas — Eva Kerley NCAD

 

CRAFT DESIGN

Paul Anthony Ceramic Artist — Paul Griffin Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)

'Did your granny have a hammer?' — Caroline Keegan NCAD

Ẹkáàbọ̀ — Obafemi William-Funmilayo TU Dublin

 

DESIGN RESEARCH — WRITTEN

“East is East, and West is West:” How Western media shapes ideas of empathy, apathy, and identity through its representation of Syrian refugees — Megan Coleman IADT

Worker’s Rights are Women’s Rights: Intersections of Class, Race and Gender as Apparent in the Dunnes Stores Anti-Apartheid Strike 1984-1987 —  Sorcha Fitzgerald IADT

Eurocentrism and Islamic Architecture: An Analysis of The Great Mosque of Cordoba and the Alhambra at Granada to Critique the Extent of Eurocentrism in Islamic Architecture and Global Architectural Discourses — Hoda Hamdy TU Dublin

Sculpting Urban Commons: The Evolution and Impact of the National Sculpture Factory, Cork — Emma Nesbitt Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)

“The Show is inexplicable unless you’re Irish”: Examining the appeal of RTÉ’s 'The Late Late Toy Show' — Emma Nolan, IADT

A Playful House: Re-Telling the Story — Ciara O'Connell Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)

Spaces of Omission — An analysis of the architectural legacy of Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, and its reflection of society and the status of Women in 20th century Ireland and today — Leah Walsh Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)

 

DESIGN RESEARCH — BY PRACTICE

Streamline — Katie Furlong NCAD

Nursing Assessment Form — Fíona Natoff NCAD

In the Ocean We Hardly Know — Elizabeth O'Brien IADT

The dry stone walls of Oileán Chléire — Darren O'Connor Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)

Mhaolú — Cristina Rusu NCAD

 

FURNITURE DESIGN

Design For Disassembly — Laura MacSweeney TU Dublin

Neil O'Donoghue — Neil O'Donoghue GMIT Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology

Interior woodlands — Becky O’Rourke TU Dublin

Grace Ragasa — Grace Ragasa TU Dublin

 

PRODUCT DESIGN

SlumberShip — Leah Moore NCAD

SmartBuoy — James Moran University of Limerick, UL

Oasis — Joel Olympio University of Limerick, UL

Zostera — Cathal Power TU Dublin

VeloFetch — Lucas Stafford NCAD

 

MEDICAL DEVICE DESIGN

Streamline — Katie Furlong NCAD

Thermovue Patella Diagnosis Device — Wayne Keating Carlow IT — SETU

Nursing Assessment Form — Fíona Natoff NCAD

 

DESIGN FOR MOVING IMAGE

Not So Typical — Amy Flinn Dublin Institute of Design

You Are Here — Jennifer Kavanagh TU Dublin

Pitcher of You — Coireall Kent Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)

I'm sorry for what I've done, forgive me for what I've yet to do — Oonagh O'Brien NCAD

Swim against the tide — Isabella Podasca NCAD

Skyglow — Lorna Quinn NCAD

 

DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY

Streamline — Katie Furlong NCAD

Machnamh — Muireann Hayes Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)

bio. — getting versed in nature — Emma Nolan IADT

Zostera — Cathal Power TU Dublin

Repair Station — Cristina Rusu NCAD

 

USE OF VISUALISATION IN DESIGN

Catharsis — Sorcha Fitzgerald IADT

The Picture House — Karen Keaney Institute of Technology Sligo (Now part of ATU)

"We are plastic" — awareness campaign video — Emma Nolan IADT

Oasis — Joel Olympio University of Limerick, UL

Grind Film Titles Sequence — Isabella Redmond IADT

Deciphering Naples: Radicalising the Urban — Patrick Staunton O'Doherty Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)

 

BRAND IDENTITY

Collective 2023 — Sorcha Fitzgerald IADT

La Liberazione Di Ruggiero Dall’ Isola Di Alcina & The Sofa — Sorcha Fitzgerald IADT

Circle — Darach McSherry Belfast School of Art (University Ulster)

reframe — support through your external frame journey — Emma Murphy IADT

All Talk — Shannon Murphy Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)

SunBalance: Making the most of the sun — Isabella Redmond IADT

Makers in Mind — A makers first approach to AI — Ava Shepherd IADT

GradX—TU Dublin Graduate Showcase Identity 2023 — Duanna Taylor Rooney, Hannah Rottke Fitzpatrick, Niamh Brennan TU Dublin

 

DESIGN FOR DIGITAL

Astraeus — Ethan Fearon Belfast School of Art (University Ulster)

YUNI: Visualise Your Value — Sorcha Fitzgerald IADT

Journey Through Inscape — Daria Jackiewicz IADT

bio. — getting versed in nature — Emma Nolan IADT

Makers in Mind — A makers first approach to AI — Ava Shepherd IADT

The GradX Website — Duanna Taylor Rooney, Hannah Rottke Fitzpatrick, Niamh Brennan TU Dublin

 

ILLUSTRATION

Guerilla Seanchaí — Brendan Atkins NCAD

Cherrywood Educate Together National School (C.E.T.N.S.) — Amy Caulfield IADT

My Changing Relationship With Piercings — Coireall Kent Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)

The Ghostly Eyes at Tyrone Guthrie — Pichamon Nene Lonergan Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)

Trust the Process — Tara Lynch NCAD

The Visitor — Francesca McCann TU Dublin

 

DESIGN COLLABORATION

GRID Co-Working — Josh Cawley GMIT Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology

SlumberShip — Leah Moore, Maeve Whelan NCAD

We Deserve Better — Shannon Murphy Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)

 

BOOK DESIGN

XYZ — Megan Coleman IADT

0.98% — Tom Davis NCAD

The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Discourses of Witchcraft and the Social Female Body — Erin Flood NCAD

The Stardust fire: The worst fire in the history of the Irish state — Conor Leech NCAD

Linguistic Limbo — Isabella Redmond IADT

Untitled — Hannah Rottke Fitzpatrick TU Dublin

What does it all meme — Duanna Taylor Rooney TU Dublin

 

DESIGN FOR PRINT (OTHER THAN BOOKS)

Cherrywood Educate Together National School (C.E.T.N.S.) — Amy Caulfield IADT

Darren Chester — Darren Chester Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)

La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola di Alcina and The Sofa — Megan Coleman IADT

La Liberazione Di Ruggiero Dall’ Isola Di Alcina & The Sofa — Sorcha Fitzgerald IADT

 

TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN

The Stars & The Stones — Ciarán Connolly TU Dublin

Wave Forms — Hannah McKenna NCAD

DAD '81 — Meabh Quinn NCAD

Linguistic Limbo — Isabella Redmond IADT

Untitled — Hannah Rottke Fitzpatrick TU Dublin

GradX—TU Dublin Graduate Showcase Identity 2023 — Duanna Taylor Rooney, Hannah Rottke Fitzpatrick, Niamh Brennan TU Dublin

Homeland (Heimat) — Michelle Urban Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)

 

UNIVERSAL DESIGN

Artafact Elevating Paper Creativity — Lisa Moran Carlow IT — SETU

Mhaolú — Cristina Rusu NCAD

 

DESIGN FOR CHANGE

We have a winner! Suspense until the Awards ceremony!