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December 8th 2011
Designs for "An Punt Nua" become an overnight viral and media sensation with coverage on The Saturday Night Show, Liveline, 98FM News, The Daily Show, Irish Independent, Carlow People and Forbes' website More>> |
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November 1st 2011
Design Week 2011 kicks off with a busy week of events from around the country More>> |
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October 28th 2011Recognising the best of Irish design at the Institute of Designers in Ireland 13th Annual Awards More>> |
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October 10th 2011Presentation of academic research into Continuing Professional Development for Visual Communication Designers at the University of Chester's International Journal of Art and Design Education Conference 2011. More>> |
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August 15th 2011
New Season brochure and website designed for Ireland's national Television and Radio broadcaster, RTÉ. More>> |
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August 12th 2011New website designed and launched for resturant Brasserie Le Pont. More>> |
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July 7th 2011We are delighted to announce that two brand identities we have developed for our client's Picturebox and Refresh Digital have published in the latest Logolounge volume. Entitled Master Library Vol. 3, the book features 3000 of the world's leading identity designs. More>> |
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June 24th 2011
The G6Series in conjunction with Pivot Dublin are hositng this year's ICSID World Industrial Design Day in The School of Art Design and Printing, DIT, Mountjoy Square on Wednesday 29th of June 2011. All are welcome to this event which will explore the 4 themes identified in Dublin's beid to become World Design Capital in 2014. More>> |
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June 23rd 2011
Blog Post: Design Week 2011 is kicking off! Although the week long festival of Irish design doesn't take place until the end of October, the call for enteries have gone out. More>> |
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June 21st 2011
Dublin is one of just 3 cities world wide who have been shortlisted for ICSID's World Design Capital More>> |
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June 15th 2011
Pivot Dublin bid launch presentation, hosted by Dublin City Council More>> |
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June 8th 2011
Diublin Institute of Technology 2011 Grad show More>> |
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May 27th 2011
Portfilion night review. More>> |
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April 10th 2011
Paperfree Project interview. More>> |
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April 7th 2011
Ogilvy, one of Ireland’s leading Advertising and communications agency, have announced that they will be hosting Dublin’s Portfolio Night 9. This year’s event, will take place May 26.
Portfolio Night is designed to help students and aspiring young creatives around the world break into the creative industry and to showcase the next generation of talent. More>>
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March 10th 2011
April's issue of the German design and typography magazine Page features an article entitled 'Typedesignszene Irland' which highlights Irish typographic design and contains an interview with Con Kennedy and other prominent Irish designers. |
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March 7th 2011
The third G6 Series lecture entitled “They named the company after me: How and why I started a Design Practice” takes place this week and features Jenny Walsh, Bob Gray and Barry Sheehan.
Date: Wednesday 9th March.
Location: Room G6, DIT Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1.
Time: 6.30PM sharp.
Twitter: @g6series
Facebook: g6series
Web: www.g6series.com
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February 22nd 2011
Con Kennedy has joined the Design, Print and Packaging Skillnet steering committee in an advisory role to help develop the Skillnet’s Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Programme for those involved in the design and printing industries.
Con has undertaken a comprehensive study into the skills, skill deficits and the benefits to the design and visual communications sector in engaging with professional development and in particular, a certified CPD Programme.
This research identified a number of potential models for the delivery of such programme and the need for industry to fully participate and commit to continuous development.
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February 7th 2011
The second G6 Series lecture entitled “Forget flippin’ burgers, I got a job in a design office” take place this week and features Naoise Ó Conchubhair, Paul Finnegan and Gregor Timlin.
Date: Wednesday 9th Februrary.
Location: Room G6, DIT Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1.
Time: 6.30PM sharp.
Twitter: @g6series
Facebook: g6series
Web: www.g6series.com
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December 22nd 2010
Christmas Greetings from Con Kennedy Visual Communications - http://eepurl.com/b3zhH |
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December 8th 2010
Following on from the positive feedback received from the "How I became a designer" talk at Design Week 2010, myself and DIT colleague, Barry Sheehan have decided to expand on themes that came up for discussion as part of the questions and answers and turn them into a series of talks. Called the G6 Series, the talks will run monthly in DIT Mountjoy Square and admission is free. More>> |
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December 2nd 2010
Keeping thre craft alive! I recently attended a letterpress printing course in the National Print Museum of Ireland. Exploring the craft of movable type and the beauty of the print quality it was a wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon. More>> |
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October 26th 2010
I'm delighted to discover that my work for Refresh Digital has been selected for publication in Peleg Top's new book on brand identity called Logolicious.
Published by Harper Collins, this mini book of logos features over 300 pages and more than 1000 examples of identity design from the worlds leading graphic designers and is available from Amazon.
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September 12th 2010
This weekend saw Dublin host the annual conference of AtypI. Entitled "The Word", the conference brought together some of the world's most influential typographic designers and academics to Dublin Castle.
Con Kennedy was amongst the 400 strong delegation that included Ellen Lupton, Erik Spiekermann, Jean François Porchez and Jos Buivenga.
The many of the seminars had an Irish theme and discussed concepts of Irish Identity, Irish Script, the printing of Proclamation of Independence and also covered talks on iconic Irish brands such as Jacob's Biscuits and Aer Lingus. There was also a debate regarding the classification of the Irish scrip, where the speaker cited Con Kennedy as one of a hand full of typographic designers developing digital Irish typefaces.
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September 6th 2010
Design Week 2010 runs from November 1st to 7th as part of this year’s events and I’m running talk on creativity and inspiration.
Entitled "How I became a Designer" the event will involve participation form 6 prominent designers where they will discuss what influenced them to to take up a career in design and what continues to drive their creative passions.
Each designer will give a short informal presentation and after which the floor will be opened up for a question and answers session. If you would like to take part in this talk or would like further information you can email.
Event Details (subject to change):
Date: Wednesday 3rd November.
Location: Room G6, DIT Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1.
Time: 7PM sharp, admission is FREE.
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August 22nd 2010
Taking place from 22nd-25th August at the RDS Simmonscourt, the Autumn Gift and Home Show will feature the very best of Irish and international suppliers. This year's show will feature a number of seminars with industry professionals sharing their knowledge and expertise on a range of topics. Con Kennedy will be giving a seminar on retail branding every day at 1pm as part of the Explore Retail clinic at the show.
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July 28th 2010
New blog post on what value-added services a designer brings to the client. Read More>>
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July 12th 2010
With great excitement we find out that the Picturebox and Refresh brand identities we designed have been selected for publication in a new book from Logolounge.
Due to hit book shelves in July 2011, Master Library, Volume 3 is the third publication from Rockport Publishers featuring the ultimate collection of logos by category.
Volume 3 focusses on Symbols & Shapes and is something that we are very proud to be featured in!
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July 7th 2010
We have just developed the identity for newly formed start-up company EZ NCT.
EZ NCT provide a convenient service for motorists who don't have the time to get their vehicles tested and will collect your car, deliver to your nominated NCT Testing centre and return you car to a location of your choice.
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June 23 2010
Why spec work is bad for both the designer and client - Blog post. Read More>>
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Monday, June 21, 2010
The second issue of Ratio from the Institute of Designers in Ireland has just been published and can be downloaded from here.
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