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New Design West Opportunity

One week Design West courses now available

 

Design West are offering a unique opportunity to recharge and reconnect with the reasons we became creatives in the first place. Due to popular demand, they are now offering One Week packages for creatives working in Advertising and Design to attend the Design West Summer School at GMIT Letterfrack in Connemara, which takes place in June and July this summer. All creatives from all disciplines are welcome.

Understanding that it may not be practical to let team members go for 2 weeks to attend this amazing course, they have created the following One Week packages to accommodate this.

 

Week 1

Attend Opening Reception on Saturday June 22nd at 6.00pm in Letterfrack.

Free Day on Sunday 23rd June — an opportunity to start your research and explore the stunning landscapes of Connemara National Park.

The course commences at 9.00am on Monday 24th June at the superb GMIT Letterfrack campus and workshops, with opening presentations by leading Dutch designer René Knip http://www.atelierreneknip.nl/ and Art Director and Designer Yuki Sugiyama from Hakuhodo Inc. in Tokyo https://www.hakuhodo-global.com/

Tutors for Week 1 will be René, Yuki, Noelle Cooper and Colin Farmer from Unthink http://www.unthink.ie/ Seán Sills (Letterpress) from the National Print Museum https://www.nationalprintmuseum.ie/ Kate Brangan and Jo Little from Or Studio, specialists in riso printing http://orstudio.ie/ and Conor Clarke from Design Factory https://designfactory.ie/

Fee: €900 includes opening ceremony meal, accommodation, tuition, presentations, excursions, access to workshops and technicians, screenings and social events.

Briefs will be sent out in advance and participants will be expected to bring notebooks outlining their ideas and what they want to achieve during the week.

Participants for Week 1 head home on Saturday 29th June.

 

Week 2

Week 2 commences at 9.00am on Monday July 1st at the superb GMIT Letterfrack campus and workshops, with opening presentations by Ken Deegan and Brankica Harvey, Associate Partners and Designers at Pentagram (New York), the world’s largest independent design consultancy https://www.pentagram.com/  

Tutors for Week 2 will be Ken, Brankica, Kate Brangan and Jo Little from Or Studio, specialists in riso printing http://orstudio.ie/ Seán Sills (Letterpress) from the National Print Museum https://www.nationalprintmuseum.ie/ Noelle Cooper and Colin Farmer from Unthink http://www.unthink.ie/ and Conor Clarke from Design Factory https://designfactory.ie/

Fee: €900 includes closing ceremony meal, accommodation, tuition, presentations, excursions, access to workshops and technicians, screenings and social events.

Briefs will be sent out in advance and participants will be expected to bring notebooks outlining their ideas and what they want to achieve during the week.

Participants for Week 1 head home on Saturday 6th July.

 

Design West are offering places up until Friday 31st May, so sign up by simply contacting [email protected]

Check out the Design West website here.