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 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