Full-time faculty on the BA(Hons) in Visual Communication are Shirley Casey, Gerard Fox,
Ron Hamilton, Alastair Keady, Hilary Kenna, Dr. Linda King, John Montayne, Phil Sheehy, and David Smith.

Shirley Casey – Lecturer in Design (3D Spatial Design and EGraphics)
Shirley has an M.Sc. in Multimedia Systems from Trinity College Dublin and is a First Class Honours graduate of Visual Communications at the National College of Art and Design. She has extensive industry experience having worked in a number of studios in Ireland and Australia including The Brand Union Dublin (formally The Identity Business), Designworks Dublin and Red Star Design Sydney. She has worked primarily on branding projects encompassing brand identity, packaging, environmental and retail graphics and exhibition design. She has won a Visual Excellence Award for her M.Sc. Final Group Project, Graphic Design Business Association (GDBA) award for packaging design in Irish Design Effectiveness Awards (IDEA) and first prize-winner for software packaging design in Digital National Student Design Competition.

Gerard Fox – Lecturer in Design (Imagemaking, Typographics, EGraphics)
Gerard is a graduate of the Post-St. Joost Visual Communication MA programme in Academie St-Joost voor Kunst en Vormgeving, Netherlands. He is also an honours graduate of the Design Communication programme at Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Mountjoy Square. Gerard has worked as a designer in studios in Ireland, the UK and the Netherlands and since 2004 has been a contributor to the IADT Visual Communication Design programme. From 2005–2006 he was programme co-ordinator of BA (Hons) Interactive Media programme and was an external moderator on the Visual Communications programme in the Limerick School of Art and Design (LIT) from 2007–2009. He has also taught graphic design at DIT, LIT and Napier University, Edinburgh, UK. Gerard has had design and research work published in Ireland, UK and the Netherlands and has also exhibited in Ireland, France, the Netherlands and Japan.

Ron Hamilton – Lecturer in Design (Visual Communication and Typography)
Visual communication for me is a way of seeing, thinking and making; a rich process that facilitates and grounds a multiplicity of creative and intelligent outcomes. It draws on all kinds of experience and no two outcomes are ever the same. It is actively supported by collaboration between teacher and student in a dynamic that seeks to meet the challenge of the project brief. This is visual communication described and expressed through different and eclectic media (paper, screen, and environment) that addresses relevant aspects of contemporary life, whether they be social, cultural or economic.

Alastair Keady – Lecturer in Design (Digital Media and Graphic Design)
Alastair's background is in design for print, multimedia and web. He jointly runs Hexhibit, a small Dublin graphic design practice, established in 2001, which provides design solutions for non- government organisations (NGOs), advocacy groups, cultural institutions and arts bodies. He was previously Design Director of X Communications and Senior Designer in Oniva (both Dublin-based), and has also held design positions in London and New York. He has worked with clients as diverse as IBM, eircom, the NationaI Museum of Ireland, The Chester Beatty Library, EBS, the Derry City Trust and Trinity College Dublin. Alastair has a BDes in Visual Communications from the National College of Art & Design and an MA in Graphic Design & Art Direction from the Royal College of Art. He is the recipient of design awards from the Designers & Art Directors Association (D&AD) and the Institute of Creative Advertising and Design (ICAD).

Hilary Kenna – Lecturer in Design (Digital Media)
Hilary has over fifteen years experience in the interactive media sector and is the joint programme chair. She has worked as a Senior Producer (Games and Education products) at Vivendi Universal and as Senior Designer with Multimedia Technologies Ireland. Hilary designed the DVDROM title ‘Mind Reading: the interactive guide to emotions’, authored by the University of Cambridge, which received a Bafta nomination (2002) and the interface for Making Modernity: Media Explorer, a touch screen installation at the Chemistry Heritage Foundation Museum in Philadelphia (2008). She is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD - Designing Typography for Screen: A Critical Examination and Exploration of Design Principles - at the London College of Communication (LCC) under the supervision of Professor Teal Triggs. She authors a research blog www.type4screen.com as part of that research. Hilary has been a visiting lecturer to the National College of Art & Design, Dublin Institute of Technology, Trinity College Dublin and University of Limerick. She previously set up the Metamorph Animation and Multimedia programme for Ballyfermot College of Further Education (BCFE) and was a member of the steering committee that commissioned the sectoral study “Multimedia Ireland – Realising the Potential”, jointly funded by Ballyfermot College of Further Education (1997). Hilary’s research interests include: Graphic Design, Screen Typography, Information Design, Data Visualisation, Interaction Design, User Interface Design, Motion Graphics and Web Design. Hilary is currently on secondment from IADT to the National Digital Research Centre (NDRC), where she is the Principal Investigator on two projects: Vizi: An Online Platform for Data Visualisation, and See Search which focuses on search visualisation.

Dr. Linda King – Lecturer in Design (History & Theory)
Linda has worked as a graphic designer, an arts consultant (AIB) and as a design researcher and assistant curator (Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institute, New York). She has been an associate lecturer at the National College of Art and Design, Cork College of Art and Design and Trinity College Dublin. Linda was an external moderator at Limerick Institute of Technology (2002-4) and Waterford Institute of Technology (2007-10). She is on the editorial board of Artefact, the journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians (IAAH) and is a member of a number of professional organisations including: UNESCO’s International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and the US-based, Design Studies Forum. Her research interests address the intersection of graphic design, material culture and historiography. She is particularly interested in the material culture of tourism and aviation; the origins and professionalisation of Irish graphic design; design and national identity; and the synthesis of design history, theory and practice. She has published and lectured widely on these subjects and is a regular contributor to national and international conferences. Linda has written for many publications including: Circa, Design and Culture (Berg), Design Issues (MIT), Eye (blog) and The Journal of Design History (Oxford). Forthcoming articles include contributions to Eire-Ireland (Boston College) and the Art and Architecture of Ireland, Volume IV: Architects and Architecture, 1600-2000 (Royal Irish Academy/Yale). Her co-edited volume (with Elaine Sisson) Ireland, Design and Visual Culture: Negotiating Modernity 1922-1992, will be published by Cork University Press in March 2011. Linda is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design (BA: History of Art and Design and Visual Communications; MA by Research: History of Architecture and Design) and Dublin City University, where she completed her PhD for an analysis of the graphic design output of Aer Lingus, the former Irish national airline.

John Montayne – Lecturer in Design (Digital Media)
John has been lecturing at the institute for the last 9 years. His areas of expertise include web development, interactive design and actionscript programming. John is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design in Industrial Design and studied his Masters at DIT in collaboration with the RCA in London in Digital Media. John was involved in the localization industry for a number of years before moving into the area of multimedia design. John lectured at the Dun laoghaire VEC and DIT Aungier Street before joining IADT. John was coordinator of the BSC in Psychology Applied to IT programme from 2001 until 2005 specializing in interactivity design. John has been involved in a number of corporate projects with clients including GE, RTE, Womensaid and ESB. John has also involved in the development of a number of IADT websites including the Center for Creative Technologies & Accessibility and the IADT student project website which is being hosted at www.iadtprojects.com. John is a judge at this years Eircom Spider Awards.

Phil Sheehy – Lecturer in Design (Photography)
Phil teaches a variety of aspects of photographic practice including studio lighting, digital darkroom and video. Having studied Graphic Design, Photography and Animation, Phil graduated from Dun Laoghaire School of Art in the 1970s and went on to specialise in photographic work and ran her own freelance commercial and advertising photography business. Working with photography within a design context and the use of experimetal photographic techniques are key areas of interest which she continues to integrate in her teaching practice.

David Smith – Lecturer in Design (Typography & Joint Programme Co-ordinator)
David Smith is an Honours Graduate of Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design and is joint programme chair. In 1998 he completed his graduate studies under the direction of Profs. Peter Keller, Jean Widmer and Hans Jürg Hunziker at L’Atelier National de Recherche Typographique, ENSAD, Paris. Before returning to Ireland to establish his studio Atelier in 2000, he worked with Integral–Ruedi Baur et Associés, Paris and UNA, Amsterdam. Atelier focuses on projects in the public and cultural sector. David’s work has been published and exhibited in Ireland, France (including the FeLindstival d’Affiches, Chaumont), Spain, Italy, Japan, Slovakia, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, China and USA and published by the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI). David has been the recipient of many awards including those from: the Type Directors Club, New York; the International Society of Typographic Designers and the Trnava poster triennial in Slovakia. He received the Nederlands Huisstijl Prize (2000) for the Asko and Schönberg Ensembles (designed and developed at UNA) and was selected to exhibit at the Emerging Designers showcase at Graphic Europe, Barcelona (2003). Nationally he has been awarded the Premier award for typography from the ISTD, numerous commendations and best in category awards from the Institute of Designers in Ireland (IDI) and multiple bronze, silver and gold awards from the Institute of Creative Advertising and Design (ICAD). David was an external moderator at Cork Institute of Technology (2009-11) and is currently a moderator at the University of Ulster (2011). He is also a moderator for the ISTD’s International Student Assessment scheme, a former Council member of the Institute of Designers in Ireland (IDI) and in June 2007 established the three x 3 internship programme for graduates of Irish design schools. Outside of education he has lectured publicly on his own practice and on wider issues concerning graphic design. He has contributed to Eye – the International Review of Graphic Design and Graphics International.