Design Summer Sessions 2022

The Design Summer Sessions is a four-day festival of learning and creativity, with interactive workshops, forums and webinar sessions for creative minds to:

• Re-energise, connect and share with each other
• Reboot their creative thinking, practice and business skills
• Explore the different areas and fields of design
• Hear from leading Irish and international designers and subject-matter experts in a range of matters relating to design.

It will provide designers from diverse backgrounds and at various stages of their careers with the opportunity to get inspired, upskill or learn about the latest design trends, programmes and initiatives and build industry connections.

SHARE & LEARN Sessions

Learn from multidisciplinary Designers, peers and subject matter experts who will share their skills and tips in these insightful and interactive Share & Learn sessions:

Workshops

From Zero to Hero. Get hands-on and expand your creative skills guided by masters in the field:

• No, Not Like That: Learning Lettering with Max Phillips
• Client-Catching Colours: Levelling Up your Colour Knowledge
• Colour Essentials for Creatives
• Fire Up Figma: Coffee, UX & Collaboration with George Longwill, UXTalks

Food for Thought Talks

Get professional tips and tricks from subject-matters experts and dig into the following topics:

• Website Wins & WOWs: Maximising your website with Jonathan Kirk
• Crank Up your Creative Career: From Mid to Senior, Designer to Manager
• Ten Top Tips for Starting your Creative Business
• Maximise your marginal gains to unlock new business
• Build bridges with UX: Bridge the user vs tech gap with UX Psychology

Get to Grips with their Design World

Delve into the day-to-day of working in various areas of Design and Get to Grips with these leading and get to grips with these leading design professionals as they share insights into their design world:

• Get to Grips with Brand Design – David Wall, McCann Dublin
• Get to Grips with Service Design – John Lynch, Context Studio
• Get to Grips with Industrial Design – Dominic Southgate, boxclever
• Get to Grips with UX Design – Brian Herron, Each&Other

CREATIVE CONNECT: Connecting the Design Community

Connect with fellow designers who will share their professional tips, spark discussions around common design challenges and brainstorm problem-solving solutions to enhance your creative and business skills and shape the Future of the Industry.

Creative Circles

• DesignOpp Creative Creatures on Diversity, diverse influences & creative careers
• Forum: Sustainable Solutions for Your Design Practice
• Hooked on Books Creatives: A Book Club For Design BookBuffs  with David Douglas, Ebow

Peer Peeks

Take a peek at some of your Design Peers. Leading creative minds share their professional stories and pieces of advice.

• To My Younger Self – 5 Pieces of Advice from Jonathan Kirk 
• Signs of Power – A Poignant career journey with Vanessa Power 

Book your sessions

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