Eligibility

The Global Irish Design Challenge is open to designers who fall into one of the below categories:

  • Irish citizens living and designing abroad
  • Irish citizens living and designing in Ireland
  • Citizens of another country living and designing in Ireland
  • Citizens and residents of another country with strong links to Ireland

For more information, please see Terms and Conditions below.

The Global Irish Design Challenge is looking for products, projects and concepts that have the potential to be game-changing. Submissions can be:

  • completed design projects
  • current design work
  • speculative designs

 

In keeping with the core themes of Irish Design 2015, entries are encouraged to address the following:

Innovation – Projects that promote new forms of design through technical, aesthetic and/or functional innovation.

Sustainability – Projects that consider the environmental impact of their design and connect the target audience to their natural environment and context.

Well-being – Projects designed to address health, social, humanitarian and/or community issues.

Sense of Place – Projects that explore and address aspects of identity, space, place, the vernacular and locality.

 

The Global Irish Design Challenge welcomes submissions relating to the following design disciplines:

  • Architecture and built environment
  • Consumer product design
  • Contemporary and traditional craft
  • Costume and set design
  • Design engineering
  • Fashion
  • Film, animation and motion design
  • Furniture and lighting design
  • Gaming and ICT design
  • Graphic and communication design
  • Industrial product design
  • Organisational and service design
  • Textile design
  • Web interface and interaction design

Entries must be submitted via the Global Irish Design Challenge website. There are 3 steps to entering:

  1. Creating an account.
  2. Completing an entry form for each project.
  3. Submitting your entries for free.

Entrants will need to prepare and submit the following:

  • a brief overview of the project
  • an outline of how the design constitutes an Irish solution to a global challenge
  • at least 3 images for each entry
  • a short video that presents your project

You can enter as many projects as you wish. Entries may be edited up until the closing date, even after submission.

The deadline for entries is 4pm 18 December 2015.

FAQs

You can submit as many entries as you wish, provided you:

  • complete an entry form for each submission
  • submit all required supporting materials in the specified formats
  • comply fully with the terms and conditions

No. Entering the Global Irish Design Challenge is free of charge.

Submitted entries will be adjudicated by the Global Irish Design Challenge jury. Below is an indicative, but not exhaustive, list of considerations for assessment:

  • Does the submission meet the eligibility criteria and adhere to the terms and conditions?
  • Does the submitted project demonstrate a high level of design talent, expertise, quality and innovation?
  • Does the submitted project have the potential to be game-changing?
  • Does the submitted project represent an Irish solution to a global challenge?
  • Does the submitted project meaningfully respond to one or more of the guideline themes?
  • Do the project description and supporting materials submitted with the entry form reflect a high standard and present a compelling case for selection?

The Global Irish Design Challenge reserves the right to withdraw entries in the event that submissions received are not of sufficient quality or infringe on the rights of any third party.

The Global Irish Design Challenge is open to anyone who can design and who meets the eligibility criteria.

The Global Irish Design Challenge is open to anyone who can design, regardless of any affiliation or membership to any organisations, companies or institutions.

Yes, you can submit design work. It is the sole responsibility of the entrant to ensure that you have the necessary permissions to do so.

Yes, you can submit speculative, conceptual, proposed or unpublished work. It is the sole responsibility of the entrant to ensure that you have the necessary permissions to do so.

No, entries may have been designed in 2015 or during previous years.

Yes, the Global Irish Design Challenge is open to design students, recent graduates, design professionals and anyone who can design and who meets the eligibility criteria.

No. You can edit your entries up until the closing date, even after submitting.

The following is an indicative, but not exhaustive, list of acceptable examples:

  • Irish citizen
  • Irish heritage
  • Designing in Ireland
  • Design team with Irish member(s)
  • Commissioned by an Irish client
  • Design training undertaken in Ireland

Only images and video may be submitted as supporting material. No other materials will be considered.

The maximum file size is 15MB and you can upload the following file types:

– PDF
– JPG/JPEG
– PNG

Videos must be hosted on either YouTube or Vimeo.

If selected for exhibition, a member of the Global Irish Design Challenge team will be in touch to discuss how best to format and profile the selected work.

There is an incredible amount of cutting edge Irish design taking place all around the globe. What better way to raise awareness and get everyone talking about Irish design than to feature it on the Global Irish Design Challenge website? This way we can share stories, build momentum and get everyone excited by awe-inspiring design and innovation.

The ID2015 team will be keeping an eye on submissions. Team members will have the opportunity to nominate entries that pique interest, show the potential to be ground-breaking and display first-rate design skills, to be featured on the site. To get things started, we approached a few companies that have undertaken some exceptional design challenges. These are featured on the site for the launch of the Global Irish Design Challenge.

Not necessarily. The jury will have the final say on the selection for exhibition in 2016.

We aim to let selected designers and design projects know by March 2016.

Terms & Conditions

  1. The Global Irish Design Challenge is an Irish Design 2015 (ID2015) initiative. Irish Design 2015 is convened by the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCoI).
  1. The deadline for submissions for the Global Irish Design Challenge is 4pm 18 December 2015. No late applications will be accepted.
  1. Entrants must be able to demonstrate that they meet the eligibility criteria. In respect of demonstrating strong links with Ireland, the following is an indicative, but not exhaustive, list of acceptable examples:
    • Irish citizen
    • Irish heritage
    • Designing in Ireland with global reach
    • Design team with Irish member(s)
    • Commissioned by an Irish client
    • Design training undertaken in Ireland
  1. Submitted projects must be original and may not infringe on the rights of a third party.
  1. It is the sole responsibility of entrants to ensure that all necessary permissions have been secured from the project client/licence owner/rights holder in respect of submissions to the Global Irish Design Challenge.
  1. Submitted projects must be made available in exhibitable form to the Global Irish Design Challenge if selected for exhibition or display.
  1. Entries may only be submitted via the Global Irish Design Challenge website. No entries by post or email will be accepted.
  1. Entrants may submit as many entries as they wish, provided they: (A) complete an entry form for each submission; (B) submit all required supporting materials in the specified formats; (C) comply fully with the terms and conditions.
  1. The Global Irish Design Challenge reserves the right to withdraw entries in the event that submissions received are not of sufficient quality or infringe on the rights of any third party.
  1. The Global Irish Design Challenge will select and manage the programme’s jury, which shall adjudicate the submissions once they have been appropriately filtered and approved by the Global Irish Design Challenge.
  1. All decisions in relation to the Global Irish Design Challenge are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
  1. Canvassing in any form will render an entrant liable to disqualification from the Global Irish Design Challenge.
  1. All rights to the submitted designs belong to and will remain with the legal bearer of the rights. However, submitting an entry will imply the granting of permission to the Global Irish Design Challenge to publish and distribute, in perpetuity, and without need to otherwise first seek approval/permission from the entrant or any third party, any and all materials and particulars relating to the submitted project free of payment or copyright restrictions for communication purposes; including, but not limited to, press material, catalogues, websites, and third-party marketing, for example in printed, electronic, or broadcast media.
  1. Submitting an entry will imply the granting of permission to the Global Irish Design Challenge to have full and free use of video/photographs containing the entrant’s image/likeness. It is understood these images may be used for promotional and communications purposes and the entrant agrees that they are not entitled to any remuneration from ID2015/DCCoI in respect of their image/likeness or its use.
  1. ID2015/DCCoI reserve the right to cancel, modify, or suspend the programme should technical failures, unauthorised human intervention, or any other factor beyond their reasonable control corrupt the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper operation of the Global Irish Design Challenge.
  1. All proposed exhibitions relating to the Global Irish Design Challenge are contingent on adequate funding and ID2015/DCCoI reserve the right to withdraw, alter, or adapt the proposed exhibition component of the programme where it is deemed appropriate to do so.
  1. ID2015/DCCoI is not responsible for: (A) incorrect or inaccurate transcription of entry information or late, lost, stolen, illegible, incomplete, misdirected entries or entries received through impermissible channels, all of which will be disqualified; (B) technical failures of any kind, including but not limited to the malfunctioning of any telephone, computer, network, hardware or software; (C) the unavailability or inaccessibility of any website or service; (D) electronic or human error which may occur in the administration of the programme.
  1. The Global Irish Design Challenge reserves the right to destroy, discard or otherwise dispose of the entrant’s submission materials and copies thereof in the possession of the Global Irish Design Challenge.
  1. Entrants indemnify the Global Irish Design Challenge, Irish Design 2015 and the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland from any and all claims, demands or clauses of actions that they may hereafter have by reason of anything relating to entering or participating in the Global Irish Design Challenge.
  1. Entrants agree to all the terms, clauses and conditions of the programme by ticking or indicating on the Global Irish Design Challenge online entry form.
  1. Submissions failing any of the requirements outlined in the terms and conditions will be excluded from the Global Irish Design Challenge.

 

To download a PDF of the Terms and Conditions click here.