There’s a housing crisis in Ireland. What should the government do? Where can they look for ideas? It’s fashionable to look abroad for ideas, for ‘international best practice’, but it’s also useful to consider that ‘the past is a foreign country’. Can we learn something from Irish history? Dublin in the 1920s was a city […]
The 19th annual IDI Irish Design Awards is on November 17th in Dublin’s Marker Hotel, but the public has just two more days to view the exhibition of the finalists currently open at Fumbally Exchange in Dame Lane. The exhibition showcases the best of Irish design this year, encompassing architecture, fashion, interiors, product design, animation, furniture, […]
For those fanboys and girls who just can’t get enough of Jony Ive saying “aluminium” in his soothing English tones, check out JonyJive.com! Choose from a range of words and phrases used by Apple’s design guru, and construct your own hypnotic, if meaningless utterances! View image | gettyimages.com How about: I can’t articulate why soft, […]
Some of the biggest names in the gaming industry will gather at the Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) campus in Thurles next month to participate in Games Fleadh 2015, an all-island games design and development competition for third-level students. LIT Tipperary, whose alumni have worked on some of gaming’s biggest titles including Call of Duty, StarCraft […]
Over the years we’ve seen many attempts to improve on the ergonomics of the traditional computer keyboard, which in turn owes its layout to a design intended to slow down the rate of manual typewriters which tended to foul up if one hammer had not got out of the way before the next one struck. Surely, goes the […]
2015 has been designated the year of Irish Design: ID2015. It’s a year-long programme aimed at promoting and celebrating Irish design, with a strong focus on creating sustainable jobs, creating new design start-up companies and growing design led exports. ID2015 is supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. The Minister for Business and Employment, Ged Nash TD, […]
Smartphones are great but they’re not designed to fill a room with sound. Sure there’s a speaker, but turn on the kettle and you can forget about hearing it. BBC podcasts are the worst: they don’t use dynamic range compression and they allow about 8dB of headroom. That’s good practice for radio engineering, sure, but it’s useless when […]
PCH founder and CEO Liam Casey is having a busy week in Dublin. He’s attending Web Summit, of course – he says that Silicon Valley was full of talk about that event last week. But before the Summit, PCH was involved with running the three-day Design and Hardware Hackathon at DCU Innovation Campus over the weekend. That’s where he spoke to Technology.ie. […]
UCD’s Innovation Academy is holding a one-day Design Thinking Masterclass on 2o October in St Stephen’s Green, Dublin. The ‘Early Bird’ price comes to an end today, and prices will rise tonight according to the Academy’s Executive Director, Johnny Ryan, who says “spots are booking up quickly”. The Innovation Academy is a unit of UCD, and […]
Stock images company Shutterstock recently blogged about the design trends apparent in 2014, and how they differ from country to country. But what may be even more fundamental than design, is colour itself. So here’s an infographic on The Colour Trends of 2014: Infographic: Shutterstock’s 2014 Color Trends Related articles Crafting Your Visual […]
