This year’s exhibition is different. As graduates, we have had to adapt to new and challenging circumstances. Moving to an online environment, we had to think of alternate ways to make our Graduate Exhibition come to life. In its translation into a digital space, the very real and tactile nature of the work we produce is obscured. In our daily lives, there is a sense of human and material touch which is equally obscured. Working from home, graduates are in a new environment. Their creative output extends into their domestic lives as their studies come to a close. It is the parallel between the materiality of our work and the absence of the sense touch that frames this year’s Graduate Exhibition.

This website presents the work of 102 graduating students from the TU Dublin School of Creative Arts, School of Mechanical and Design Engineering and School of Media. The exhibition represents the culmination of years of full-time study and gives our students the opportunity to showcase the results of their imagination, hard work, and creative skills.

Identity by Joana Ferreira, Hugh Kavanagh, Eva Martin, Ben Nagle.

TU Dublin School of Creative Arts
TU Dublin School of Mechanical and Design Engineering
TU Dublin School of Media

Visual Communication

Ben Nagle
Fashioning A Circular Future

BRIEF: Moving Pictures, conceive and produce an animation to accompany one of two selected audio files that will clarify, energise and illuminate the content. The voiceover is a call to action to make fashion circular and stop our throw away society that is a huge polluter of the planet. A circular economy is based on the principles of designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use and regenerating natural systems. “Make Fashion Circular” is a petition to try and implement those ideals into fashion, as it is having a detrimental effect on the planet. Waste and pollution are not an accident. They are a consequence of decisions made at the design stage - where 80% of environmental impacts are determined. Our society needs to change its behaviour on this matter. We need to use things, rather than using them up, and stop materials ending up in the landfill. This animation was completed for the RSA Student Design Awards.

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