The IDI Graduate Design Awards 2020 - Winners!
The IDI Graduate Awards Zoom event was held on Thursday 3rd December 2020.
The best of the 2020 design graduates were announced on Thursday 3rd December at the IDI Graduate Design Awards, signposting a bright future ahead for Ireland's talented graduates.
With almost 600 entries, 111 were shortlisted as judged by a panel of 36 design professionals and academics in Ireland. The awards are a proven springboard to establishing exemplary careers in design, as well as to winning further awards both nationally and internationally.
Andrew Burns of IADT was awarded the Grand Prix for the very high quality of his entries in a number of categories, including his category winning project 'Queer Patriotism: Alternative Miss Ireland 1987-2012'.
Other prizes went to Aoife Taaffe of CIT for (Social Steps) in Universal Design and the awards for Design for Change went jointly to Jessica Keller, UL (Degrees of Repurposing Architecture) and to NCAD's Keith Fitzsimons, Alex Hennessy, Róisin Maher and Joe Fahy (Seafloor), which also won the Sustainable Design category.
See the full video of the prize announcements here:
Congratulations to all the incredible candidates who beat off the competition to make it to the final, and to all who won awards.
THE GDA PRIZEWINNERS 2020
The Grand Prix Winner : Andrew Burns IADT
Animation
Winner Dermott Burns, Aimee Kirkham Priester, Ulster University - Forest
Commended Gunjan Dere, LSAD - Yourself
Architecture
Winner Jessica Keller, UL - Degrees of Repurposing Architecture
Commended David Roe, CCAE - Re-Presenting Lost Topoi
Fashion Design
Winner Bethaney Woolley, Griffith College - 'Blind Spot' A/W '21
Commended Muireann O'Riordan, LSAD - LET THEM EAT CAKE
Commended Aaron McGouran, NCAD - In Ainm An Athair - In The Name of The Father
Design Research
Winner Andrew Burns, IADT - Queer Patriotism: Alternative Miss Ireland 1987-2012
Commended Maria Dolera Perez, CIT - Acoustic Strategies for Music and Speech in a Multipurpose Hall
Commended Hannah Scott, TUD - Sound and Vision: A critical exploration of the integration and impact of design and music in album covers.
Commended Grace Hickey, IADT - Homonationalism and Pinkwashing: The Rebranding of Israel (2010–2019)
Interaction Design
Winner Pacifico Borza, NCAD - Faro
Commended Diarmuid Farrell, NCAD - Woven Chats
Commended Pearse O'Neill, Ulster - Plantra App
Exhibition Design/Visual Merchandising
Winner Súlán Ó Muirgheasa, NCAD - Guerilla Gaeltacht
Fashion & Textiles: Textiles
Winner Sarah Flynn, NCAD - Colourfully Conscious
Interior Design / Interior Architecture
Winner Jasmine Lee, IT Sligo - A Hymn to Freedom & Rebellion
Design for Sustainability
Winner Keith Fitzsimons, Alex Hennessy, Roisin Maher, Joe Fahy, NCAD - Seafloor
Commended Niamh Damery,UL - Econooc
Product Design - Furniture Design
Winner Stuart Allen, Ulster University - DR Distinct
Commended Gerry Murray, GMIT - 352 Lounge Chair
Handmade Products and Artifacts
Winner Sanaa El Habbash, NCAD - Empty Pockets
Commended Keith Fitzsimons, Alex Hennessy, Roisin Maher, Joe Fahy, NCAD - Seafloor
Commended Emma Caulfield, NCAD - Knitted Hair Poster
Product Design - Industrial or Consumer products
Winner Ciaran Conlan, TUD - Trail
Commended Jessica Quinn, UL - NebuPod
Commended Vinh Truong, TUD - Enso - The Guided Play Toolkit
Product Design - Medical Devices
Winner Jonathan Mearns, Ulster University - Trailblazer
Commended Laura Kennedy, UL - deia - a suite of sustainable menstruation management products
Film and Television
Winner Emily O'Connor, IADT - Banished Opera
Visual Communication Brand Identity
Winner Kate McCauley, IADT - The Coop – Community Run Micro Farms
Commended Faye Oliver, IADT - United Citizens
Commended Holly Smyth, IADT - Ellie
Commended Andrew Burns, IADT - Blotch Skin Health
Visual Communication Design for Digital
Winner Emily Torpey, IADT - Terra, your personal forest bathing guide
Commended Claire Dillon, LSAD - Think, Change, Live.
Commended Melissa D'Agostini, IADT - BUNDLE!
Commended Olivia Gangnus, IADT - Plantpal
Visual Communication Packaging Design
Winner Nadia Dzagmaidze, TUD - The Empowerment of Music
Commended Jonathan Theobald, NCAD - Natural Angle
Visual Communication Printed Book
Winner Hannah Ecker, CIT - The Intricacies of Identity or How to Belong to Yourself
Winner Faye Oliver, IADT - United Citizens
Commended Claire Dillon, LSAD - Dear Liary
Commended Andrew Burns, IADT - Becoming
Visual Communication Printed material (other than books)
Winner Niamh McArdle, IADT - The Student Society of Divine Dwellings
Commended Lauren Pogue, Ulster University - The Riverside
Commended Faye Oliver, IADT - United Citizens
Visual Communications Use of Illustration in Design
Winner Lijie Yan, Griffith College Dublin - All Girls Equal
Commended Béibhínn McCarthy, NCAD - Unwelcome Guests in Dublin City
Commended Ryan Drayne, LSAD - It's Not Always Obvious
Commended Anna Higgisson, CCAE - The Spike Island Pilgrimage
Visual Communications Use of Typography in Design
Winner Kate McCauley, IADT - Tree ID 103718
Commended Hugh Kavanagh, Marcus MacConghail, TUD - an gheabhróg
Commended Joyce Stafford, AIT - Mappa Del Paradiso
THE SPECIAL AWARDS 2020
Universal Design
Winner Aoife Taaffe, CIT - Social Steps
Design For Change
Winner Jessica Keller, UL - Degrees of Repurposing Architecture
Winner Keith Fitzsimons, Alex Hennessy, Roisin Maher, Joe Fahy, NCAD - Seafloor