NCAD Prospectus 2024/24
This year’s prospectus for the National College of Art and Design has been published.
France-Ireland: 120 Years of Rugby
New exhibition installed at the courtyard at the Centre Culturel Irlandais.
Beak Hour by Julie Weber
Sometimes there is no why.
Centre Culturel Irlandais turns 20!
The Centre Culturel Irlandais celebrates its 20th birthday this year.
IDI Award Winners 2022
7 shortlisted projects and three wins at the IDI this year!
IDI Award Winners 2020
Delighted to win 2 IDI Awards last night.
Creative Arts Summer School
The Creative Arts Summer School 2021 is open for applications!
NCAD Recruitment Campaign
Recruit potential artists and designers starts by applying the very principles NCAD teaches and promotes.
100 Archive 2021
Super to have 4 projects in the 100 Archive, a selection of the best design in Ireland each year.
100 Archive – 2022 selection
Great to have 4 projects entered into the 2022 100 Archive.
Deirdre Brennan: Following Ulysses
New exhibtion of photography, installed at the courtyard at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, in time for Bloomsday.
2021 ICAD Winners
Great to win 3 ICAD awards last week.
Dóchas
Connecting, strengthening and representing a network of international development and humanitarian organisations.
European Design Award 2020
Yeah, 2020 European Design Award Winner for the Drinks Ireland Annual Report.
ICAD 2020
Delighted to have 5 commendations in the ICAD Awards 2020.
KeepWell
How important is the health, wellbeing and prosperity of your employees?
Learn to Swim, Identity Campaign
When creating the identity for Swim Ireland’s ‘Learn to Swim’ campaign we needed to consider three audiences; kids, parents and pools.
NCAD, Change Lab, Poster
The promotional poster for the change lab book and exhibition was designed to engage the viewer by using a variety of overlapping visual layers, each representing an different aspect of the experience.
The Laudato Si Challenge, Identity
The Laudato Si’ Challenge has been established to inspire creativity worldwide and improve the lives of one billion of the most vulnerable people.
NCAD, Prospectus
Studying at NCAD is about learning through making, research and conceptual development.
Learn to Swim, Passport
When creating the identity for Swim Ireland’s ‘Learn to Swim’ campaign we decided to include a passport as a device that would enable each kid to map their own journey.
ILFD 17, Identity Campaign
Where is your book taking you?
G7 Italia, Book
Making the Digital Economy and Society Inclusive, Open & Secure was the overarching theme at the I7 multi stakeholder conference during the G7 Italia 2017.
NCAD Prospectus
Our approach for the NCAD prospectus is to dedicate the prospectus to student interviews.
NCAD Open Day Poster
Once a year the National College of Art and Design opens its’ large blue gates to the next generation of prospective artists and designers.
NCAD Graduate Showcase
The NCAD Graduate Showcase is an annual opportunity to discover the latest emerging talent from the art and design world.
Maurice Ward Notebook
Our brief was to design a notebook to be given as a gift at a global logistics conference.
Dublin Cookie Company Identity
The design and concept of the identity evolves around illustrating moments and memories one can have when tasting various ingredients.
NCAD Access X 10 Book
Having been asked to design a book to mark ten years of the NCAD Access programme, we immediately proposed a workshop where we could discuss the past, the purpose, and the potential of the access programme.
Ermacora Display Fonts
Danish-Italian urban, technology and futurist focused, Ermacora prioritise social impact design, open source thinking and the circular economy.
BSM Identity
A space becomes a place with the introduction of people.
Ibec, Ireland : A Model of Substance Exhibition, Brochure
The Irish model has been evolving over the last eighty years.
NCAD – Open Day poster
The NCAD open day poster highlights the possibilities of artistic endeavours, with colour, beauty and energy.
Homebeat + 34 Identity
An independent Irish music promoter moved in next door to our studio and decided to sell coffee from his workspace.
Ace typography, logotype & identity design
The etymology of the word conversation is to turn together.
Branar Identity
Based in the West of Ireland since 2001, Branar is one of Ireland’s leading theatre companies making work for children.
Creative Arts Summer School 2022
The Creative Arts Summer School is a collaboration between seven Irish colleges, providing two weeks of free art and design workshops to individuals from low socio-economic backgrounds, and communities where there is a low progress to higher education.
OSI – Identity System
OSI invest in cutting edge ideas that can be formed into the next generation of world-changing organisations.
Sideline Hero – Logo
Sideline Hero is an innovative new product for hurling and camogie players.
NCAD – Change Lab Poster
The change lab is a critical space for learning, thinking and re-imagining the possibilities of how art and design curriculum in second level can be taught through a development education lens.
Drinks Ireland Annual Review
Drinks Ireland, Championing Ireland’s best loved drinks brands.
Hummingbird Brand Identity
Hummingbird are an early stage seed investor working with challenging founders such as Deliveroo and Showpad.
ILFD Logo
The International Literature Festival Dublin holds a series of diverse events in many unique spaces across the city.
Irish Whiskey 360° Brand Identity
Irish Whiskey 360° is a connected circle of Ireland’s much loved distilleries.
Creative Arts Spring/Summer Schools
Use light, shadow and colour to create atmospheric images that represent spring and summer.
The Consilience Project
The Consilience Project publishes novel research at the leading edges of global risk mitigation, governance design and culture.
Christmas Stamps 2023
The creation of this year’s Christmas stamps centred around family and community celebrations, the story of the nativity, and the simple joy of festive traditions.
NCAD Prospectus 2024/25
This year’s prospectus for the National College of Art and Design takes as its cue the college’s guiding statement: Bold and Curious Thinking, Making and Doing.
NCAD Prospectus 2023/24
The prospectus showcases NCAD’s strategy for the coming years: Futures Bold & Curious.
Hanover Quay – Property Books
Hanover Quay is a new luxury building featuring 120 apartments in the Dublin Docklands.
Let’s Go Disco – Cook Book
Let’s Go Disco is a call to arms regularly heard in the kitchens of The Cliff House Hotel.
Maynooth University Prospectus
Our goal for NUI Maynooth is to create a culture of conversation, a space where new connections are made, new ideas are created and new knowledge is formed.
Re Think + Re Act – A PIVOT Dublin initiative
Re Think + Re Act was a open forum for discussion, an exhibition of the PIVOT Dublin bid to become World Design Capital in 2014 and a reading room filled with favourite books and visual curiosities.
A Place Without Walls
Limited edition book for Eoin Moylan’s personal and conceptual photographic essay, in collaboration with Stoney Road Press.
Toy Show Appeal
We were delighted when RTÉ contacted us to brand the Toy Show Appeal.
Tír
Tír makes seasonal Irish sandwiches.
This Place
A book that journeys from East to West Galway aimed at capturing texture, landscape, nature and relaxed energy.
Drinks Ireland Annual Review
An annual review of the drinks industry in a difficult year.
Websites and Digital
At Red&Grey, we’re not just about creating websites and digital assets – we’re about crafting online design experiences that leave a lasting impression.
OFFSET 10+10
Taking part in a panel discussion on ambitions for Design in Ireland at OFFSET 2019.
Branding that resonates with audiences
We don’t just create branding; we craft unforgettable identities that resonate deeply with audiences.
Literature Festival 2018
ILFD 2018’s visual language was constructed around the concept of diverse spaces.
Creative report design
At Red&Grey, we’re passionate about report design because we know it’s not just about presenting information—it’s about telling a compelling story.
Critical Practice Reviews
We’re taking part in artist critiques on offer 5-6 May as part of PhotoIreland Festival 2017.
Art Direction
At Red&Grey, we believe that art direction is more than just crafting a visual style – it’s about collaboration, creativity, and taking your projects to new heights.
NCAD Prospectus campaign, 2015/16
This year’s prospectus was dedicated to student interviews.
Brand Naming
We create memorable meaningful names that have the power to directly affect your brand’s perception and ultimately its success.
Engaging Creative Brochure Design
We see brochure design as an opportunity to create experiences, not just hand out information.
Cats Prestige Stamps
New set of stamps for An Post, featuring pedigree cats.
Memorable Logo Design
We get that a logo is more than just a pretty picture – it’s the face of your brand, the essence of who you are distilled into a single image.
ICAD Award Gold for Branding
Delighted, honoured & humbled to receive a gold Institute of Creative Advertising & Design branding award.
An Post – Book of Kells stamps
A new pair of stamps featuring images from the Book of Kells. The two stamps show details of interlacing lions from the medieval illuminated manuscript.
Red&Grey joins Threex3
Excited to be joining the Threex3 internship programme alongside Detail and Unthink.
Art Wall
Our public art project moves into its second year this January. Thanks to all of the artists who have contributed so far.
2022 European Design Award Winner
Silver for our design work on the NCAD Prospectus.
Ireland in Music
We really enjoyed working on ‘Ireland in Music’.
Gaiety stamps
He’s behind you! Stamps celebrating 150 years of The Gaiety.
ICAD Winners 2022
This is a very short intro for the ICAD win news article. This is a very short intro for the ICAD win news article.
And the Oscar goes to?
Stamps designed for An Post celebrating Irish Oscars winners.
Decrypting the Secrets of Rare Books
Exhbition currently on show at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.
European Design Award Winner 2021
Delighted to win an ED AWARD for the Lab Gallery signage.
IDI Award Winners 2021
Happy with our 2 IDI Awards last night!
Ancient Postal Routes
An Post issued two stamps on the theme of ‘Ancient Postal Routes as part of a Europe-wide initiative.
100 Archive 2019
Nice one, 5 projects selected for 100 Archive!
Memorable Creative Campaigns
We believe a memorable campaign can make a lasting impact and build meaningful connections with your audience.
The Embassy of the Free Mind
Brand identity for the incredible Embassy of the Free Mind.
NCAD, Recruitment Campaign
“NCAD is a special place, walking through the blue arch on Dublin’s Thomas Street brings you to a unique campus of studios, workshops and learning spaces where the community of students and staff are engaged creatively in exploring and understanding the world.“
Baan Thai, Identity
Baan Thai are a family run restaurant steeped in Thai Culture, Heritage, Harmony, Family, Flavour, Tradition, Health and Home.
Embassy of the Free Mind, Identity
“The city of Amsterdam is blessed for being a city where it is possible for merchants to be philosophers and for philosophers to be merchants.” Baruch Spinoza.
ILFD 17, Book
How many hidden characters are waiting for the time when curious eyes will find them?
NUI Maynooth – Undergraduate Prospectus
Our goal for NUI Maynooth is to create a culture of conversation, a space where new connections are made, new ideas are created and new knowledge is formed.
NCAD Prospectus
The National College of Art & Design is a living environment of thinkers, makers, doers and creative voices both in the past, the present and future.
Swan ELT Identity
Swan English Language Training is a Dublin based school delivering quality courses, employment opportunities and social programmes to students from all around the world.
Stamicarbon Identity system
Stamicarbon are a global chemical engineering company who design the technology to create fertiliser from the gas extract urea.
Safurex Identity
The collaborative partnership between Engineering company Stamicarbon in the Netherlands and Steel manufacturer Sandvik in Sweden developed a family of high pressure stainless steel solutions, named Safurex.
ILFD – Campaign/Identity System
The International Literature Festival Dublin holds a series of diverse events in many unique spaces across the city.
NCAD Portfolio Brief
The NCAD Portfolio brief is designed as an introduction to third level art and design research, process, invention and coursework.
Abrivia Identity
The concept for this identity was found in the company’s name.
Art Box Worldwide Identity
There’s art, there’s art box, there’s art box worldwide … domination.
Frontline Identity
Frontline Ventures were in need of a rebrand, an update, a fresh look for a continuously evolving and fast growing industry.
NCAD Open Day Poster
Not Closed All Day = NCAD + Open all day.
NCAD – Prospectus
The prospectus showcases NCAD as a energetic institution that encourages you to apply creative thinking, ask critical questions, practice inventive making, understand new methodologies, dream, seek the unknown and look for what is beautiful in the world.
NCAD, Change Lab Book
What does it mean to teach and make art that is and of our time?
NCAD Prospectus
There are four provinces in Ireland, the fifth province is one of imagination that lives at the centre of Ireland.
NCAD Social Media
There are four provinces in Ireland, the fifth province is one of imagination.
Bríd
Bríd is a book, a series of paintings, poems and memories.
Álla Studios
Alla Sinkevich is a sustainable fashion designer-maker born in Ukraine, schooled in Belarus.
Laudato Si’ Challenge – Book
The Laudato Si’ Challenge has been established to inspire creativity worldwide and improve the lives of one billion of the most vulnerable people.
NCAD – Change Lab Book
Working closely with the School of Education in NCAD we formed a visual and aesthetic system to represent the pedagogical approach and artefacts the Professional Master in Education student teachers created in response the question: How do we mine and trace the past to make sense of the now?
Red&Grey; – Promotional Poster
Red&Grey promotional poster designed to highlight the tension between creativity and solidity.
E01 Process Book
E01 is the first in a series of process books documenting the development of the Recode Institute and it’s various projects.
ILFD 2019 Campaign
The International Literature Festival Dublin holds a series of diverse events in many unique spaces across the city.
Longford Development Plan
Economic, cultural and environmental icons were created to be used across a playful topographic map of County Longford.
NCAD Prospectus 2019
The prospectus showcases NCAD as a energetic institution that encourages you to apply creative thinking, ask critical questions, practice inventive making, understand new methodologies, dream, seek the unknown and look for what is beautiful in the world.
Olann Brand Identity
Based in Cavan, Olann was born out of a desire to create a range of sophisticated colours on ethically sourced yarns.
Creative Arts Summer School 2023
The Creative Arts Summer School is a collaboration between nine Irish colleges, providing two weeks of free art and design workshops to individuals from low socio-economic backgrounds, and communities where there is a low progress to higher education.
Showcase 2024
We were tasked with creating a campaign that placed the buyer at the centre of the Showcase experience.
NCAD Social Media 2023
Undergraduate social media for the National College of Art and Design in 2023 was designed in line with this year’s prospectus.
NCAD – Graduate Exhibition
The NCAD Graduate Exhibition is an annual opportunity to discover the latest emerging talent from the art and design world.
NCAD – Airport Exhibition – NCAD Illuminated
Creative Journeys is a two-year public art program that brings together Dublin Airport and the National College of Art and Design (NCAD).
NCAD – Undergraduate Prospectus
The student is the first concern. That is the philosophy of the National College of Art & Design.
PIVOT Dublin – Bid book
The World Design Capital (WDC) is a city promotion project established to celebrate the aims and accomplishments of cities using design as a tool to reinvent themselves socially, culturally and economically.
Maurice Ward Group Identity
Established in 1968, Maurice Ward are an independent global freight-forwarding and logistics organisation.
Dublin Cookie Company, Packaging
The design and concept of the Dublin Cookie Company identity evolves around illustrating moments and memories one can have from tasting certain foods.
Community healthcare careers
New heroes wanted.
Snakes on a deckchair
Covid lockdown.
NCAD Recruitment Campaign
The National College of Art and Design occupies a unique position in art and design education in Ireland, offering the widest range of art and design degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Chit Chat
Thanks to all the speakers and attendees at Chit Chat.
NCAD Prospectus campaign, 2018/19
Prospectus and recruitment campaign making use of collage, playful typography and colourful assemblages.
NCAD Prospectus campaign, 2017/18
Prospectus design highlighting the ambitions of NCAD students, and exploring the lives and work of highly regarded Irish artists and designers.
Creative Design
At Red&Grey, we’re not just in the business of creative design; we’re in the business of creating memorable experiences.
OFFSITE 2018
Glug Dublin mark their second gathering with chats with creative duos.
ILFD, 2017 – Identity campaign
Design of typographic posters, cards, flyers and more, using the central theme of hidden characters.
Wild Atlantic Way Stamps
Augmented reality stamps feature images of some of Ireland’s most scenic views
Exhibition Design
At Red&Grey, for exhibition design we don’t just make beautiful spaces – we create immersive experiences that leave a lasting impression.
OFFSITE 2016
Portfolio Review by a host of visual and graphic designers.
Delving Deep: Brand Research
Brand research isn’t just a task; it’s an adventure into the heart and soul of your business.
Wild Atlantic Way
New coastal tourist route launched by Fáilte Ireland.
Brand Strategy
We know that a strong brand strategy is more than just a catchy logo or a clever tagline.
Pivot Dublin Reading Room
Exciting exhibition in Filmbase, Temple Bar from the 1st to the 8th March.