Scandinavian Design Report (Irish Design)

7 Pins
·
4y
By
Martina Moyne
,
Callum Crehan
,
Cristian Danila
and 4 others
the front page of a book with numbers on it
Design in Ireland
an article about the scandinavian group and the design in ireland report
Designing Ireland
a black and white photo of a man in a lab coat looking at bottles on shelves
Moments in Irish Design History
Kilkenny Design Workshops, image via Alice Rawsthorn
an article about the scandinavian group and the design in ireland report
Designing Ireland
A retrospective exhibition of Kilkenny Design Workshops 1963 - 1988
five men standing in front of a building with the words evliving design from kdw to future directions
File or directory not found
KDW
the irish design reform movement of the 1960s on jstorr
The Irish Design Reform Movement of the 1960s on JSTOR
The Irish Design Reform Movement of the 1960s on JSTOR
a black and white photo of a man in a lab coat looking at bottles on shelves
Moments in Irish Design History
1963: Kilkenny Design Workshops Following the Scandinavian Report of 1961 which invited Nordic experts to evaluate design in Ireland (to paraphrase, they didn't think much of it) the Kilkenny Design Workshops were set up to incubate and develop design practice. The first state-sponsored scheme of its kind, it housed workshops for prototyping and production, acted as a design consultancy and produced some iconic work (Holger Strom's IQ lamp was developed there, for one). While it gradually lost i