Graduate Design Awards
The IDI Graduate Awards were created to recognise and reward outstanding and innovative design by new designers at the beginning of their creative careers.
IDI Graduate Awards 2023 Shortlist
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 and Daniel O’Mahony 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)
Kyle’s Botanical Bites: Market & Garden Oasis — 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
Morphus — Kez Ottman Polimoda
SUSTAINABLE FASHION & TEXTILES
Moving Forward, Looking Backward — Sam Daly NCAD
Scáthach — Ellen Greenan Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)
Cuimhneas — Eva Kerley NCAD
CRAFT DESIGN
Animism — 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 and Dehlia McCarthy 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
Podium — Neil O’Donoghue GMIT Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
Interior woodlands — Becky O’Rourke TU Dublin
Vernacular Furniture — Grace Ragasa TU Dublin
PRODUCT DESIGN
SlumberShip — Leah Moore and Maeve Whelan 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 and Dehlia McCarthy 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 and Sára Rajnai. 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 and Daniel O’Mahony Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)
BRAND IDENTITY
Collective 2023 — Sorcha Fitzgerald, Emma Nolan, Megan Coleman, Joe Crossen, Alex Furey, and Lochlann Megannety 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, Megan Coleman and Ava Shepherd, IADT
Journey Through Inscape — Daria Jackiewicz and Patrick Harty MTU
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 disaster 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
Dereliction: Myths and Realities — 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
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IDI Graduate Awards 2023 Winners
A huge CONGRATULATIONS to the winners and commended entries of the IDI Graduate Awards 2023!
ANIMATION — WINNER
The Friend, The Dove & The Deer — Daire Powell NCAD
ANIMATION — COMMENDED
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)
ARCHITECTURE — WINNER
Feirm Chléire — Darren O’Connor Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)
ARCHITECTURE — COMMENDED
Deciphering Naples: Radicalising the Urban — Patrick Staunton O’Doherty and Daniel O’Mahony Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)
INTERIOR DESIGN / INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE — COMMERCIAL / RESIDENTIAL — WINNER
Ballinacurra Maltings: Culinary Learning Landscape and Enclosure — Hannah McCarthy Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)
INTERIOR DESIGN / INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE — COMMERCIAL / RESIDENTIAL — COMMENDED
Refresh, a refurbishment of the Sailors Home — Gintare Povilaityte Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)
INTERIOR DESIGN / INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE — PUBLIC — WINNER
Refresh, a refurbishment of the Sailors Home — Gintare Povilaityte Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)
INTERIOR DESIGN / INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE — PUBLIC — COMMENDED
Kyle’s Botanical Bites: Market & Garden Oasis — Olivia Tait Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)
INTERACTION DESIGN — WINNER
RoomFinder — Lauren Battersby IADT
INTERACTION DESIGN — COMMENDED
Engage For Change — Kinga Kalecinska Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)
TEXTILES — WINNER
Cuimhneas — Eva Kerley NCAD
TEXTILES — COMMENDED
The Performed Feminine — Ava Thompson NCAD
FASHION DESIGN — WINNER
Morphus — Kez Ottman Polimoda
FASHION DESIGN — COMMENDED
Enamour — Mila Burov NCAD
SUSTAINABLE FASHION & TEXTILES — WINNER
Scáthach — Ellen Greenan Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)
CRAFT DESIGN — WINNER
Animism — Paul Griffin Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)
CRAFT DESIGN — COMMENDED
‘Did your granny have a hammer?’ — Caroline Keegan NCAD
Ẹkáàbọ̀ — Obafemi William-Funmilayo TU Dublin
DESIGN RESEARCH — WRITTEN — WINNER
“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
DESIGN RESEARCH — WRITTEN — COMMENDED
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
“The Show is inexplicable unless you’re Irish”: Examining the appeal of RTÉ’s ‘The Late Late Toy Show’ — Emma Nolan, IADT
DESIGN RESEARCH — BY PRACTICE — WINNER
Streamline — Katie Furlong NCAD
DESIGN RESEARCH — BY PRACTICE — COMMENDED
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)
FURNITURE DESIGN — WINNERS
Design For Disassembly — Laura MacSweeney TU Dublin
Vernacular Furniture — Grace Ragasa TU Dublin
FURNITURE DESIGN — COMMENDED
Podium — Neil O’Donoghue GMIT Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
PRODUCT DESIGN — WINNER
SlumberShip — Leah Moore and Maeve Whelan NCAD
PRODUCT DESIGN — COMMENDED
VeloFetch — Lucas Stafford NCAD
MEDICAL DEVICE DESIGN — WINNER
Streamline — Katie Furlong NCAD
MEDICAL DEVICE DESIGN — COMMENDED
Nursing Assessment Form — Fíona Natoff and Dehlia McCarthy NCAD
DESIGN FOR MOVING IMAGE — WINNER
I’m sorry for what I’ve done, forgive me for what I’ve yet to do — Oonagh O’Brien NCAD
DESIGN FOR MOVING IMAGE — COMMENDED
Not So Typical — Amy Flinn Dublin Institute of Design
Pitcher of You — Coireall Kent Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)
Swim against the tide — Isabella Podasca NCAD
Skyglow — Lorna Quinn NCAD
DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY — WINNERS
Streamline — Katie Furlong NCAD
Machnamh — Muireann Hayes Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)
DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY — COMMENDED
Repair Station — Cristina Rusu and Sára Rajnai. NCAD
USE OF VISUALISATION IN DESIGN — WINNER
Grind Film Titles Sequence — Isabella Redmond IADT
USE OF VISUALISATION IN DESIGN — COMMENDED
The Picture House — Karen Keaney Institute of Technology Sligo (Now part of ATU)
Deciphering Naples: Radicalising the Urban — Patrick Staunton O’Doherty and Daniel O’Mahony Cork Institute of Technology, CIT (Now part of MTU)
BRAND IDENTITY — WINNER
GradX—TU Dublin Graduate Showcase Identity 2023 — Duanna Taylor Rooney, Hannah Rottke Fitzpatrick, Niamh Brennan TU Dublin
BRAND IDENTITY — COMMENDED
reframe — support through your external frame journey — Emma Murphy IADT
Makers in Mind — A makers first approach to AI — Ava Shepherd IADT
DESIGN FOR DIGITAL — WINNER
Astraeus — Ethan Fearon Belfast School of Art (University Ulster)
DESIGN FOR DIGITAL — COMMENDED
YUNI: Visualise Your Value — Sorcha Fitzgerald, Megan Coleman and Ava Shepherd, IADT
Makers in Mind — A makers first approach to AI — Ava Shepherd IADT
ILLUSTRATION — WINNER
The Ghostly Eyes at Tyrone Guthrie — Pichamon Nene Lonergan Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)
ILLUSTRATION — COMMENDED
Guerilla Seanchaí — Brendan Atkins NCAD
Trust the Process — Tara Lynch NCAD
The Visitor — Francesca McCann TU Dublin
DESIGN COLLABORATION — WINNER
SlumberShip — Leah Moore, Maeve Whelan NCAD
DESIGN COLLABORATION — COMMENDED
We Deserve Better — Shannon Murphy Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)
BOOK DESIGN — WINNER
The Stardust fire: The worst fire disaster in the history of the Irish state — Conor Leech NCAD
BOOK DESIGN — COMMENDED
0.98% — Tom Davis NCAD
DESIGN FOR PRINT (OTHER THAN BOOKS) — WINNER
La Liberazione Di Ruggiero Dall’ Isola Di Alcina & The Sofa — Sorcha Fitzgerald IADT
DESIGN FOR PRINT (OTHER THAN BOOKS) — COMMENDED
Dereliction: Myths and Realities — Darren Chester Limerick School of Art and Design (Now part of TUS)
TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN — WINNER
The Stars & The Stones — Ciarán Connolly TU Dublin
TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN — COMMENDED
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 — WINNER
Artafact Elevating Paper Creativity — Lisa Moran Carlow IT — SETU
UNIVERSAL DESIGN — COMMENDED
Mhaolú — Cristina Rusu NCAD
DESIGN FOR CHANGE — WINNER
Katie Furlong NCAD
GRAND PRIX — WINNER
Sorcha Fitzgerald IADT