Water Land exhibition

Running until the 30th of November in the Waterways Visitor Centre is a show of some of the best of contemporary Irish craftsmanship, with work by Alan Ardiff, Da Capo, Michiel DeHoog, Róisín Gartland, Séamus Gill, Joe Hogan, Brendan Hogg, Niamh Jackman, Emmet Kane, Ayelet Lalor, Alison Lowry, Pat McBride, Misery Hill Studio, Liz Nilsson, Elizabeth O'Kane, Henry Pim and Zelouf&Bell.

If you call in to see it feel free to drop into our studio directly across the road and say hello.

Inaugural Design Tower Summer School

We are very excited to be involved in the Design Tower Summer School. It is an opportunity for people to get very focused tuition and introduction to working with materials, conducted by makers in their own workshops, and get to meet the people engaged in other workshops and share stories of your experience.
Do you want to make a bag for your laptop?
or try your hand at sculpting the human head?
or designing and making your very own piece of jewellery?

We are all looking forward to welcoming you into our world of making.
For our own course you can contact us here.

A unique and extraordinary event !

On the 2nd of June on the ground floor of the Design Tower there will be a lunchtime concert.
It will be performed by 5 members of the RTE concert orchestra.
And uniquely, they will all be performing with instruments made by luthier Michiel DeHoog from the Tower.

Bruce Metcalf show opening

American jeweller Bruce Metcalf has a show of his work opening in the National Craft Gallery in Kilkenny this coming friday. He has been consistently inventive and inquisitive in his work for going on 4 decades. It is really interesting to see how his work has evolved or developed over time which you can see browsing through his site here.

70s

80s

90s

00s

Bruce will be giving a talk about his work at 5pm this friday before the show opens, which is bound to be both intriguing and illuminating.

Craft Trail around the capital

for one night only, on Friday 10th of June, from 5 to 8pm you will be able to visit and explore many of the best workshops in Dublin.

See you there.

http://designerdublin.ie/explore-craft/


... of course you can call in and see us anytime...
: )

Noble Thoughts

We will be giving a talk in Trinity College as part of the Innovation Festival 2010.
Along with Seamus Gill (silversmith) and Alan Ardiff (jeweller/artist) we will be talking about innovation and change in the field of making objects from metal and our respective crafts from 5000bc right up to today. And we will consider what is influencing design and craft now and how it may develop in the coming decades.

Monday 15th November, 12.30, Large Conference Room, O'Reilly Institute, Trinity College
innovationdublin.ie event page

ps: (pat on the back for witty title)