He’s worked with the world’s top names in fashion, and David Beckham hand-picked him to change the face of British label, Kent & Curwen. Paul McLauchlan meets Dublin-born designer Daniel Kearns.

Helen O’Callaghan talks to three Cork business owners who are thriving with used goods.

"Spending time outside plants the seed of many new ideas."

Founded by architect Walter Gropius in Weimar Germany in 1919 and closed by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus school has had a huge global influence on art, architecture and design.

Seamus Gill is a silversmith and jewellery designer. He spoke to Aileen Lee.

My first memory of making things was when my grandfather taught me how to knit.

The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) had to abandon a HR software system on which it spent €138,000 over three years because management failed to properly implement it.

Aileen Lee Aileen Lee chats to Amanda Vencatasamy, co-founder of Hey, Bulldog! Design.

Interview with Aileen Lee.

Carolyn Moore showcases the most exciting new names in fashion

They may not be household names but these five Irish people work behind the scenes at some of the world’s biggest fashion organisations. From high ranking positions in Vivienne Westwood to Dries Van Noten, Carolyn Moore charts their rise

The Central Bank has spent €130,000 on a light sculpture for its new €140m headquarters on Dublin’s North Wall Quay.

Severe financial oversight deficits at the National College of Art & Design have been highlighted in its latest accounts — that are already more than three years old.

The design is set to represent the DART’s coastal journey.

Orla Barry’s farming background has found its way into her current exhibition at the Crawford, writes Colette Sheridan

Ciara Silke: Textile designer

The River Island Design Bursary will give an invaluable insight to the trade, as winning student Caoimhe Hill explains to Carolyn Moore.

Ailbhe Keane began creating stylish spoke guards for her wheelchair-using sister Isabel. They now have a proper business, writes Ruth O’Connor

A free programme is published online today aimed at helping young people become digital entrepreneurs.

What started out as a final-year college project has developed into a fully-fledged business.

I’m confident enough not to be a perfectionist. I move on with things. Try and get them done.

Emma Manley grew up eating and breathing fashion.

The Restaurants Association has changed the name of their former Foodie Town destination initiative, now calling it Foodie Destination 2016.

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BASED in Kilkenny and doing stalwart work for Irish design, the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCOI), announced its Future Makers Awards and Supports Programme 2016 at a ceremony in Dublin last Wednesday.

Carolyn Moore meets five designers making their mark on the Irish fashion landscape – and asks what advice they’d give to the class of 2016.

The annual NCAD Fashion Show is a showcase of the newest and brightest talents in Irish design.

Fifty years ago, an IRA bomb belatedly decapitated one of the most iconic monuments to British rule in Ireland, writes Billy O’Riordan.

Faith Ryan styles autumn days with great design, soft textures and a plateful of culinary love.

Just how did a Japanese artist begin drawing characters from Father Ted and publishing them every day? Noel Baker finds out from Dublin-based sketcher Shota Kotake

By now we’ve all heard of upcycling, the process of taking a piece of tired and unloved furniture and giving it a little cosmetic enhancement so it escapes certain death at landfill.

IS IT surprising that someone who enjoyed inventing things as a child should end up designing, or in some cases reinventing, everyday household objects?

Deirdre Reynolds talks to indie actress Antonia Campbell-Hughes, who play a leading role in The Canal and who has scooped a Shooting Star Award at the Berlin Film Festival.

Gerda Frömel drowned aged 44, but a new exhibition serves as a reminder of why she was one of Ireland’s most lauded sculptors, writes Alan O’Riordan

Lynn Peters Adler’s has interviewed 500 centenarians for a new book on longevity and tells Margaret Jennings why we should respect and value older people    

I watched with regret the cry for funding by hundreds of National College of Art and Design students on RTÉ News recently, and wondered why the college management has responded to such an amateur approach.

THE design exhibition Fresh Talent is taking place at the National Craft Gallery in Kilkenny, bringing together recent graduates from third-level design colleges with designers who have been working for a few years.

Jacqueline Stanley tells Alan O’Riordan about the legacy of her late husband Campbell Bruce, former professor of fine arts at NCAD

The Higher Education Authority has been criticised for failing to properly monitor the financial affairs of the National College of Art and Design to which it has given more than €100m in funds in the last eight years.