The Print and Packaging Forum announced the appointment of Dr Kevin Byrne as interim Director. Kevin is currently head of Department of Print & Digital Media at DIT and has taken up the role as Director, on a voluntary basis, until a new full-time Director is appointed in the autumn, following the retirement of Gerry Andrews. Kevin brings over 26 years industry experience to the role.

The Forum, in conjunction with Dublin City University, has just completed an updated report on the Industry, which will be published in September 2011. The Forum has also undergone an in-depth strategic review, formulating its mission and vision statements together with the development of a three-year strategy 2012-2015, to continue working for and raising awareness of, print and packaging Industry issues. The Forum sees support from the Industry as key to its continued success, demonstrating to Government that the sector is active, united and supported by the Industry is essential.

In order to generate revenue and support from the sector, the Forum will be launching a ’Friends of the Forum’ campaign and raising awareness for the ‘Print Irish’ brand at a special Industry meeting in September 2011. Kevin can be contacted at kevin.byrne@dit.ie

Dublin for World Design Capital

DIT is supporting Dublin's bid for designation as World Design Capital 2014

World Industrial Design Day at DIT

DIT and the G6 Series together with Pivot Dublin are holding a workshop at the School on the global theme "Industrial Design: How does it improve life for you?". Get more info here

New Masters programmes launched

Just launched – Masters of Arts: Critical and Visual Studies, Design Studies, Critical Art Practice. Applications are now being accepted. For details see the programme blog

Grad Show 2011

Work by final year students from Fine Art, Visual Communication, Interior Design, Furniture Design, Visual Merchandising & Display and Product Design has been published in the annual catalogue 'DIT Grad Show 2011'. Click the online catalogue. The annual Sponsors' Awards presentation will take place in the Civic Offices on Wood Quay in Dublin on Tuesday 7th June at 4.30pm, followed by the Design Show opening at The Complex_Smithfield Dublin 7 at 6.00pm and the the Fine Art Show on Thursday 9th June at DIT Portland Row Dublin 1 at 6.00pm. [photo: Floor Lamp by Aislinn Lynch, Furniture Design student]

Autodidact, Ronan McCrea at Green on Red

Opening on 14 April, Ronan McCrea’s first solo exhibition at Green on Red Gallery combines photographs from his recent School Play project with new works that further elaborate themes of play and educational institutions in relation to the photographic and cinematic image, subjectivity, and artist’s ongoing interest in the form and function of highly symbolic social spaces. Click here for more information.

Image: detail of The Rhetoric of Play (three pictures in variable sequence) 2011. Three 35mm slides, slide projector, dissolve unit, AV stand.

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