Conor Clarke and Stephen Kavanaugh - Partners, Design Factory

Conor Clarke is Co-Founder and Director of Design Factory, an award-winning design studio based in Dublin, Ireland. Established in 1985, the company specializes in Brand Identity and Communications Design and is highly regarded both nationally and internationally. https://designfactory.ie/

Conor’s work has been featured in international publications such as Who’s Who in Graphic Design, Graphis, Novum Gebrauchsgrafik, the New York Art Directors Club Annual, Worldwide Identity: Inspired Design from 40 Countries published by Icograda and Art Marks published by Counter-Print. His work was exhibited at the New York Art Directors 5th International Exhibition in 1992; The Boundaries of the Postage Stamp, at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands in March 1993; Posters for Cultural Diversity at the Icograda World Design Congress 2007, in Havana, Cuba; The Good 50×70 exhibition in Milan in 2009 and the ADP Design Tour exhibition, Tokyo in October 2017.

His book ‘Oranje & Green’, Holland - Ireland Design Connections 1951-2002, was published by BIS Publishers Amsterdam in 2002. The monograph Design Factory: On the Edge of Europe was published by BIS Publishers in 2009. He has served as both Board Member and Awards Jury Chairman of ICAD (The Institute of Creative Advertising and Design) and the IDI (Institute of Designers in Ireland). He was a member of the International Design Jury at the ADC Awards in New York in March 2016.

Conor was the Acting Head of the Department of Visual Communication at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin from 2013 – 2016. He is currently Regional President for Ireland on the Asia Designer Communication Platform. He is the Founder and Course Leader at Design West, Ireland’s first International Design Summer School. http://designwest.eu/

Stephen Kavanagh is Co-Founder and Director of Design Factory, an award-winning design studio based in Dublin, Ireland. Established in 1985, the company specializes in Brand Identity and Communications Design and is highly regarded both nationally and internationally. https://designfactory.ie/

Stephen is an Honors Graduate of the National College of Art & Design in Dublin. He was a Co-Founder and Board Member of the GDBA (Graphic Design Business Association) and is a member of ICAD (Institute of Creative Advertising & Design) and the IDI (Institute of Designers in Ireland). Stephen received the prestigious Donside Papers (UK) Award for the Best Overall Entry from Ireland for his ESB Annual Reports for two consecutive years.

His work has been published in respected international design journals such as ‘Worldwide Identity: Inspired Design from 40 Countries’, ‘Around Europe Logos’, ‘Creative Review’, ‘Graphis’, ‘Who’s Who in Graphic Design’ and the ‘Good50x70’ Anthology – 5 Years of Social Communication through Posters. Stephen specializes in Brand Identity and Communications Design for "The Built Environment". He is an external assessor to the Dublin Institute of Technology.