Colleges, schools, researchers and the programmes they run. We’ve branded NCAD’s graduate show every year since we named it.
Education clients need work that lasts the academic year and resets for the next. Some of our longest relationships are here — NCAD since 2019, a three-year partnership with RTÉ and Creative Ireland, and climate educators who brought us in before they had a name.
See the workHow it tends to go
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New every year.
NCAD Works gets a fresh identity each year inside a system that keeps it recognisable. Students, staff and visitors know where they are without it feeling like last year’s show.
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Built for real crowds.
Graduate shows mean thousands of people in buildings that weren’t designed for them. Signage, maps and a website that works on a phone in a stairwell.
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Everyone on board.
Academics, students, broadcasters, funders. We run the process so every stakeholder sees their part in the result — and signs it off.
Case studies
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NCAD Works 2024
We named Ireland’s biggest graduate show in 2019. We’ve given it a new identity every year since.
Identity, Digital, Print, Signage
This Is Art! 2023
A national art competition for young people. We helped name it, drew its typeface and posted bilingual posters to every school in Ireland.
Identity, Digital, Print, Type Design, Art Direction, Development
The Belonging Project
What does belonging mean in academia? Forty responses, interpreted by NCAD students and shown at the Museum of Literature Ireland.
Identity, Digital
Next Act
Scientists, teachers and researchers responding to climate change. We branded it like a protest placard — because it is one.
Identity, Print
NCAD Works 2023
Four schools, four shapes and a graduate show that never sits still.
Identity, Digital, Print, Signage
NCAD Works 2025
The seventh graduate show we’ve branded for NCAD. Identity, wayfinding, print, web and exhibition.
Identity, Signage, Print, Digital
Previous years, and more.
City of Physics
Physics, out of the lab and into the city. Identity, illustration and film for a public science project.
NCAD Works 2022
Identity, wayfinding and website.
NCAD Works 2021
Identity, packaging, wayfinding and website.
NCAD Works 2020
The graduate show goes online, in a hurry.
NCAD Works 2019
The year we named it.