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It was the turn of Ronan Healy who is co-founder of a service design studio…

The B!G 5 never fails to entertain and the most recent interviews have certainly lived up to this ….

What a year we’ve had! We might have been smack in the middle of the first global pandemic in 100 years but…

Christmas is coming and boy, do we have an offer for you! Stribe are offering 35% off which will be just the thing….

The B!G Idea and IDI (Institute of Designers in Ireland) are working with CEUD (Centre for Excellence in Universal Design) and NDA…

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner! Winners of the highest calibre! This week our main lady, our head honcho…

We thought it would be pretty cool to find out more about our Mentors who are joining the programme this year…

We love a discount as much as anyone and this week we have a fabulous opportunity …

The B!G Idea have loved having Jill Deering and Gillian Henderson from Jill & Gill as Mentors …

We are so thrilled to have been selected as a worthy recipient of startup funding …

The B!G Idea was super excited to be asked to speak at the Responsible Innovation Summit on Thursday 21 October…

The B!G Idea is thrilled to offer 15% discount off all training and events with This Is Doing to our 2022 Mentors…

The IDI Awards is one of those super glittery, fun events that is held every year and brings out the competitive edge…

We had the pleasure of speaking with Donnacha Neary, Managing Director of Sonica…

We love our Mentors and we know that many of you are ploughing your own furrows…

The B!G Five is back!! Each week we ask one of our Superstar mentors 5 questions and they have 15 seconds to answer…

Following on from last year’s wonderful success, The B!G Idea team are pulling out all the stops…

Here we go again, another incredible offer, another incredible way to progress…

If you haven’t been hiding under a rock for the past year then you will have heard us talking and talking….

Our B!G Mentor to interview this week was Gillian Reidy, designer and business owner of Penhouse Design…

So you are thinking of signing up or you have already signed up as a B!G Mentor and you’re wondering…

Our students had a lot to say about our 2021 programme and we loved hearing it. The enthusiasm and desire for creativity was bubbling out of each and every one of them…

To continue our campaign of giving something back to you, we are thrilled to be able to offer all our 2022 Mentors 20% discount off Buddabags…

This week it was the turn of positive vision storyteller, Ashwin Chacko for a quick chat. Ashwin uses…

It’s probably obvious by now that we are not ones to sit back and watch the world go by! Over the next month, we will be making lots of noise about our…

At The B!G Idea we believe in giving back and so we are thrilled to be able to offer lots and lots of exciting discounts…

We are so lucky to know so many cool people and this week we caught up with one such person. Roisin Lafferty is…

We caught up with Cormac O’Conaire this week, Chief Design Officer in Design Partners. Cormac was one of…

Last week, 27-29 August, Kim presented The B!G Idea at DesignPOP to continue our campaign to increase visibility…

Our second interviewee of sparkly mentors is Emma Geoghan, architect, urban designer and Programme…

It’s clear that we think The B!G Idea rocks and is the future for education in Ireland but we thought it would be good to talk…

We know creative skills are valuable and we wanted to prove it! We surveyed our 2021 students to see how The B!G Idea impacted them…

Last week we had the opportunity to meet with some of our incredible superstar mentors to get a feel for their thoughts on our first year…

Congratulations to all the student participants for their incredible entries, they certainly didn’t make life easy for our judges…

It’s finally here! Our B!G showcase event is really happening and we have such an exciting line-up of the B!GGEST superstars. Emma Power of 2FM…

From personas to empathy maps to storyboards to journey maps, nobody could argue that The B!G Idea programme wasn’t varied and involving…

We are so excited to see our name being bandied about across all media sites at the moment. While those on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter…

The B!G day that we’ve all been working so hard towards is fast approaching so take a moment and mark it on your calendars now. Judgement Day!

“Don’t worry about other people, just be kind to yourself” Daithi Baxter, Creative Director, Fabrik

Drum roll please! We have some whopper prizes for our students this year! Every student who has worked so hard during…

This month the B!G iDEA house is buzzing. Pitches have been submitted from our students across Ireland and we have 101 top creative professionals lined up to mentor each one.

The B!G iDEA  is getting comfortable on Instagram Live every Wednesday at 11am. Each week we ask one of our…

We are very excited in the B!G Idea house this week. While aiming for 2000 students for the 2022 waiting list, we have been…

We could hardly contain ourselves when we received this feedback from the very first school involved in The Big Idea 2021…

The link between Lego and creativity is an obvious one. We’re all familiar with children (and some adults!) diligently…

We know our teachers go above and beyond for their students, even paying for additional equipment…

During a chilly December, we were thrilled to have the support of family and friends who helped…