Ashwin Chacko
Illustrator & designer
Ashwin Chacko
Illustrator & designerAshwin Chacko is an illustrator & designer. Ashwin develops and design conceptual illustrations for advertising campaigns, products, packaging, editorial, children’s books and one off commissions from around the world. He likes to describe his work as; positively playful. His clients include Facebook, Nike, Puma, Dublin Inquirer and United Nations.
Noreile Breen
Architect and Lecturer- University of Limerick
Noreile Breen
Architect and Lecturer- University of LimerickNoreile Breen is an award-winning architect based between Dublin and Kerry. Her practice is focused on creating buildings that have a rich spatial character with distinct qualities of light. She has taught in schools of architecture internationally, and currently a lecturer at the University of Limerick.
Scott Burnett
Founder
Scott Burnett
FounderScott is the founder of Wove, which brings design to the heart of organisations and helps them to design impactful ways forward through challenges. Prior to this he co-founded brand and design studio aad, clothing brand Angry, design community 100archive and educational design initiative makeshapechange.
Dr Caomihe McMahon
Lecturer- NCAD
Dr Caomihe McMahon
Lecturer- NCADCaoimhe currently lectures across Product, Service and Interaction Design in NCAD. She has a background in industrial design and design ethnography, with 16 years experience across industry and academia in Ireland, the UK and Germany. She enjoys creating tangible ways of sustainably embedding design research methods in practicing design teams.
John Walsh
Assistant head of school- Creative arts I TU Dublin
John Walsh
Assistant head of school- Creative arts I TU DublinJohn Walsh is a Product and furniture designer, currently senior lecturer and Assistant head of school at TU Dublin School of Creative Arts and a former President of the IDI. His products have won several awards both on national and international platforms and have generated an excess of €40m in sales.
Paul Finnegan
Associate
Paul Finnegan
AssociatePaul is an Associate with Mola Architecture. Paul has a proven track record having worked on award-winning interiors for Smartbox, Stripe, Dropbox, Zendesk, and Avolon Global. Paul is a council member of the Institute of Designers Ireland (IDI) and an organizer of the regular “IDI FEED” talks.
Amy McKeogh
Architect and Creative Director
Amy McKeogh
Architect and Creative DirectorAmy is A CEO, Architect and Creative Director of Fior Studio’s, an Architecture and multi-disciplinary design studio. Fíor means true in Irish. In 2019 Amy founded Design POP. Design POP is Ireland’s first Design and Food hybrid festival which attracted over 45,000 people in the first year.
Déaglán Campbell
Multidisciplinary designer
Déaglán Campbell
Multidisciplinary designerDéaglán Campbell is a multidisciplinary designer and design educator. He has worked in the design industry for 17 years; 11 of which as creative director of his design practice Soup. Déaglán has lectured in design at Athlone Institute of Technology, the Dublin Institute of Design, Griffith College and Ulster University.
Colin Kehoe
CEO and Founder
Colin Kehoe
CEO and FounderColin is CEO of the Rapid foundation, he is a Designer, Engineering and Founder. He is fascinated by disruptive technologies and processes that help us to improve the world. He strives to put technology and low-cost electronics in the hands of people who need them most in developing countries.
Deirdre Corcoran
Founder
Deirdre Corcoran
FounderDeirdre founded Chapter, a design agency, in 2015. Chapter has a clear mission: to equip brands with the tools, techniques and cultural insights that allow them to navigate change and connect on a human level.
Ian Walton
Lecturer and Design Director
Ian Walton
Lecturer and Design DirectorIan is an award winning Product designer and Design director with over 15 years experience. Co-founder of design consultancy notion and currently practicing under In Earnest providing design direction and consultation across various industries. Also lecturer at NCAD in Product design and Medical device design programmes.
Gerard Fox
Co-Programme Chair- IADT
Gerard Fox
Co-Programme Chair- IADTGerard is Co-Programme Chair of BA Hons Visual Communication Design in IADT. He teaches visual designers to be analytical problem solvers and inter-disciplinary design strategists. He has taught design in Ireland, UK, Finland and Poland and previous to becoming a full-time educator, worked as a designer in Ireland, UK and the Netherlands.
Kelle Link
UX Principal
Kelle Link
UX PrincipalKelle is a Business Designer and UX Principal. Currently delivering a design-thinking program to accelerate an enterprise-wide Lean transformation. Past companies or consultancy clients include Verizon, Thomson Reuters, Toyota Europe, Fidelity Investments, NHS, IBM & more (in Tokyo, New York, London, Dublin).
Alan Hatton
Digital Creative
Alan Hatton
Digital CreativeAlan is a digital creative with 15 years experience in the communications industry. Currently Digital Communications Coordinator with Foróige, Ireland’s leading youth development organisation. Alan has spent his career using design to amplifying the voices of young people and nation-shifting groups to affect positive change in the world.
Tracy Fahey
Head of the Department of Fine Art- LSAD
Tracy Fahey
Head of the Department of Fine Art- LSADDr.Tracy is head of the Department of Fine Art at LSAD. Her research focuses on Gothic, folklore and fine art and has worked extensively on research journals and design and cultural centres. She has published and has been nominated on elite platforms across Ireland, US and UK for a novel, short story and short fiction collections.
Patrick Morgan
Lecturer- I.T Carlow
Patrick Morgan
Lecturer- I.T CarlowPatrick holds a B.Des. (Hon) in Industrial design and MA in Digital media technologies and is a member of Institute of Designers in Ireland (IDI). Has been lecturer of visual communications and design and art programmes in Wexford campus of I.T Carlow since September 2010.
Deirdre Doherty
Multidisciplinary designer
Deirdre Doherty
Multidisciplinary designerDeirdre is a multidisciplinary designer who has led the design faculty at Griffith college in programme design and curricula development in communication, Fashion and Interior design/Architecture. Early in her career she has designed e-learning content for pharmaceutical industries and then moved on to work with multimedia content for mobile phone industries.
Eamon Spelman
Lecturer- LIT
Eamon Spelman
Lecturer- LITEamon teaches Graphic Design Communication course at the Limerick School of Art and Design and is actively involved in the Irish design community through the 100 Archive and Offset. He is also a member of the International Society of Typographic Design, Institute Designers Ireland.
Dr Louise Kiernan
Course director and lecturer- UL
Dr Louise Kiernan
Course director and lecturer- ULLouise is the course director for the Msc in Design for health and wellbeing and also lecturer on the Bsc. Product Design + Technology at the University of Limerick. Her research interests include: design education, health and wellbeing, team collaboration and cognitive process.
Philip Farmer
Graphic designer
Philip Farmer
Graphic designerPhilip is a web developer and graphic designer. Having recently from Brussels where he spent 5 years working for studios Coast Agency and Salut Public, Philip now heads up the digital team at Design Factory.
Niamh Harman
Creative Director
Niamh Harman
Creative DirectorNiamh is Creative Director with health & wellness provider, Spectrum.Life. Niamh works to create digital innovative products to promote positive social change in mental health, fitness & nutrition for large global brands. She is a Design Mentor on ADPList & UX Academy London.
Leon Butler
Visual narrative designer
Leon Butler
Visual narrative designerLeon has been a visual narrative designer, filmmaker and educator for over a decade. Currently pursuing both lecturing at Yeats Academy of Art Design and Architecture and growing at his own practice at Bold visual Narrative has received several accolades from the Irish design Awards and The Future Makers awards to name a few.
Emma Creighton
Programme director
Emma Creighton
Programme directorEmma is a lecturer and programme director of the MA Interaction Design in NCAD. Her prior experience includes working with the informal education and youth outreach sectors. Emma’s research explores the integration of design as an approach to learning across all stages of education.
Mark Swaine
Product Thought leader and Founder
Mark Swaine
Product Thought leader and FounderMark is an acclaimed UX, Design and Product Thought leader helping companies build end to end product and design experiences. Having delivered extraordinary product design, strategies, blue chip and growth to tech startup companies and VC’s, also founder of ‘UX Guy/’UX Institute’.
Dr Fiona Dowling
Lecturer- WIT
Dr Fiona Dowling
Lecturer- WITFiona chairs the Creativity & Culture Research Group (CCRG) in the School of Humanities at WIT where she lectures in Visual Communication Design. Her consultancy and research work are in partnership with state and private collaborations inclusive of business, NGO’s and the cultural sectors.
Simon Roche
Design director
Simon Roche
Design directorSimon is a design director in US educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, working on curriculum books and heavily involved in the transition to teaching digitally. He has also worked on branding, mapping, and publication design for many cultural institutions under the studio name Bureau.
Amy West
Designer
Amy West
DesignerAmy works in the fields of Design, Strategy and Product Management, she has experience with shaping business ideas into delightful and market defining solutions. She loves to work with passionate leaders, to help make their vision a reality.
Enda O’Dowd
Lecturer- NCAD
Enda O’Dowd
Lecturer- NCADEnda is a lecturer in the Product Design Department at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) and joint course coordinator for the MSc in Medical Device Design. He has a keen interest in the design of new products, services and business models for complex systems including medical care and the circular economy.
Dr Hilary Kenna
Programme chair- IADT
Dr Hilary Kenna
Programme chair- IADTHilary is the Programme chair of BA(hons) in Interaction and UX design in IADT along with lecturing for Masters in UX design. She is also the Principal Investigator of the newly founded Public Design Lab and has authored IADT’s postgraduate certificate course in Design Thinking.
John Moriarty
Design director
John Moriarty
Design directorJohn is a Design director with Fjord, based in The Dock- Accenture’s global innovation center. His prior experience includes working with startups, digital education and product design. Currently working at the intersection of people and emerging technologies, ideas to impact and make innovations real.
Dr Michelle Douglas
Programme Head
Dr Michelle Douglas
Programme HeadMichelle is Programme Head for Master of Design at Griffith University, Australia and has led the Product and Interaction department at Ravensbourne and London. Originally from Northern Ireland, her research focuses on regional design cultures, design-led innovation and design policy.
David R.Pollard
Co-Founder
David R.Pollard
Co-FounderDavid is co-founder of Sapien Innovation and Open Source Ventilator and the Innovation Projects Manager at Rehab Group. Also lectures at Innovation Academy UCD, Tangent @ Trinity College Dublin, and NCI. Currently PhD Candidate in Inclusive Design and Creative Technology Innovation at UCD.
Nevil Walsh
Lecturer- IT Sligo
Nevil Walsh
Lecturer- IT SligoNevil currently lectures in Product design at IT Sligo. Has previously lectured on Industrial design, Product design engineering, Interior architecture and Fast track to Information technology programmes. Also actively developing new products together with start-ups from concept to production.
Honora Egan
Product Designer
Honora Egan
Product DesignerHonora Egan is an award winning Product Designer with over 12 years experience in the industry. She has experience working with a wide range of products in various markets bringing numerous products from sketches to manufacture.
Mark Tiernan
Interior design Architect
Mark Tiernan
Interior design ArchitectMark is Senior Interior Design Architect with Reddy Architecture + Urbanism. Being qualified in Industrial Design, Interior Architecture and later this year Project Management it provides him with a unique perspective in Concept Design and Project Delivery in both Retail and Hospitality sectors.”
David O’Brien
Associate Architect
David O’Brien
Associate ArchitectDavid is an Associate at McCauley Daye O’Connell Architects. An award winning architect, he brings significant experience of working at many scales, having developed a diverse portfolio of work including one-off private houses, commercial fit-outs, hotels, office and residential buildings and masterplans.
Agnieszka Rojowska
Architect and founder
Agnieszka Rojowska
Architect and founderAgnieszka is founder of ROJO Studio Architects, with over 20 years working experience across public and private sectors and has worked with Waterford City Council as Executive Architect. She is a RIAI registered architect who was previously board director at Fumbally exchange co-working.
Emmett Scanlon
Architect and Assistant Professor
Emmett Scanlon
Architect and Assistant ProfessorEmmett is an Architect and assistant professor of Architecture at UCD and Architecture adviser to the Arts council 2006-2020. He is host of the popular Architecture and design podcast ‘What do buildings do all day?’ His practice ranges across building and spatial design, public art, exhibition making and curation, research, teaching and writing.
Laoise Quinn
Architect
Laoise Quinn
ArchitectLaoise is an Architect who has extensively worked in Dublin on various scales of project; exhibition design, private houses, a public park and large housing developments. Has a keen interest in observing people’s behaviour through public projects involving research and collaboration blurring social boundaries.
Jeremy Madden
Lecturer- GMIT Letterfrack
Jeremy Madden
Lecturer- GMIT LetterfrackJeremy is a lecturer in Furniture Design and Manufacture in GMIT Letterfrack. A course coordinator and has over 25 years of experience within education and the furniture industry nationally and internationally. He is considering the roles of designers and makers on sustainability within furniture manufacture.
Rebecca Walsh
Design director
Rebecca Walsh
Design directorRebecca is Design Director at Big Motive and a Chartered Mechanical Engineer (IMechE). She also holds an MEng (Hons) Aerospace Engineering along with a decade’s experience in human-centred design and service innovation.
Gianni C
Product Designer
Gianni C
Product DesignerGianni leads Zendesk’s growing product design team in Dublin and sees collaboration as the key to creating experiences for customers. Previously founder of Fillit a sharing economy start-up.
Gemma Stack
Producer
Gemma Stack
ProducerGemma is a producer at The Reelists, she oversees all video productions from brief to delivery. Along with being in the media industry she also has experience in digital advertising, events, production and creative communications.
Oisin Jacob
Architect
Oisin Jacob
ArchitectOisin has worked for dePaor and Henry J Lyons Architects, he has developed a special interest in architecture as a lived experience, a playful encounter and follows a strong philosophy of research-based design.
Mariana Spagnuolo
Design Lead
Mariana Spagnuolo
Design LeadMariana is a Design Lead at WONDR. She helps teams create products people like to use. Working across different projects ranging from e-commerce, and banking, to data visualization, and conversion funnels. Previous locations includes Brazil, Japan, Australia, and Spain.
Dermot O’Shea
Founder
Dermot O’Shea
FounderDermot founded WONDR in 2014 and in 2018, they were listed in the top 10 studios globally. He has over 17 years of experience working at home & abroad as a designer across e-commerce, banking, tourism, telcos, energy & tech.
Emma Geoghegan
Architect
Emma Geoghegan
ArchitectEmma is an architect, urban designer and lecturer at the Dublin School of Architecture, TU Dublin engaged in the design and research of beautiful, purposeful, and resilient places for people. She is also currently a Vice President of the RIAI.
Ronan Healy
Co-Founder
Ronan Healy
Co-FounderRonan is Co-founder of How Might We. Core of his studio’s capability is the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method and their conviction in the power of Play to make Service Design and Systems Thinking more accessible. Clients worked with includes Microsoft, Stryker, Matheson and Gas Networks Ireland.
Maria Rice
Creative Director
Maria Rice
Creative DirectorMaria is Creative director & Lead Interior designer of Adi Studio specializing in the hospitality industry with over 20 years’ experience. She has worked on numerous projects and one-off houses with Titanic Hotel Belfast being one of her most notable. Her love of heritage properties has won many industry accolades.
Andreas Heil
Architect
Andreas Heil
ArchitectAndreas is the Head of Design at Sonica and lecturer at Griffith college and TU Dublin with over 20 years of experience. He is also the founder of ‘Innen Interior Architects’ and was awarded Irish “Fit-out Designer of the year” in 2016.
Aoife O’Dwyer
Creative Director
Aoife O’Dwyer
Creative DirectorAoife is Creative Director at Each&Other. She specialises in digital, user interface and visual design and is really into design communities, inclusive leadership and internet culture. She also runs Glug Dublin and mentors’ designers via ADPList and the UX Design Institute’s specialist Visual Design course.
John Gavin
Creative Director and founder
John Gavin
Creative Director and founderJohn is Creative director and owner of TrueOutput. His work spans across design for brand identity, print, product, packaging, environments, digital and moving image. He brings experience from working in London and Ireland for clients like Adidas, BBC, Microsoft, Volvo, Mercedes-Benz and Waterford Whisky.
Paula McKenna
Design Director
Paula McKenna
Design DirectorPaula is the design director at Bradley Brand, with over 20 years experience in brand strategy, problem solving and creative thinking. She is a graduate from LSAD and has successfully managed national and international accounts from financial institutions to retail and drinks corporations.
Caoimhe Kelly
Designer
Caoimhe Kelly
DesignerCaoimhe is a freelance shoe designer and guest lecturer. She collaborates across international teams of industry experts in footwear technology and sustainability and has extensive experience of the British high-street and global brands. Caoimhe embraces the challenges of creating sustainable and fashion-forward footwear.