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	Full-time faculty on the BA(Hons) in Visual Communication are Shirley Casey, Gerard Fox, Ron Hamilton, Hilary Kenna, John Montayne, Phil Sheehy, David Smith, and Eoghan O Reilly. Shirley Casey – Lecturer in 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 Typographics and EGraphics Gerard is a First Class Honours MA graduate of Academie St-Joost voor Kunst en Vormgeving, Netherlands, a postgraduate facility specialising in Visual Communication. He is also a graduate of DIT Mountjoy Square, holding a First Class Honours Advanced Diploma in Design Communication. Gerard has gained industry experience both home and abroad having worked for design studios in Ireland, the UK and the Netherlands. He also currently runs his own small design practice. His work has been published in Ireland, the UK and the Netherlands and he has also had his work exhibited in Ireland, France, the Netherlands and Japan. He is currently External Examiner on the Visual Communications programme in the Limerick School of Art and Design [LIT]. Before working with IADT, he also taught design at Dublin Institute of Technology [DIT], Limerick School of Art and Design [LIT] and also Napier University, Edinburgh, UK. Ron Hamilton – Lecturer in 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. Hilary Kenna – Joint Programme Co-ordinator and Lecturer in Design and Digital Media Hilary completed her undergraduate and Masters degree in Visual Communications at NCAD. She has over ten years experience in the interactive media sector, having previously worked as a Senior Producer of Games and Education products at Vivendi Universal, and as Senior Designer with Multimedia Technologies Ireland. Hilary designed the acclaimed DVDROM title Mind Reading: the interactive guide to emotions, authored by the University of Cambridge, which received an interactive Bafta nomination in 2002. Hilary was also programme co-ordinator of the Metamorph Animation and Multimedia Programme at Ballyfermot College of Further Education. She is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD, Designing Typography for Screen – A Critical Examination and Exploration of Design Principles in Relationship to Contemporary Practice, at the London College of Communication (LCC) under the supervision of Professor Teal Triggs. Hilary’s research blog is at www.type4screen.com. John Montayne – Lecturer in 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. Phil Sheehy – Lecturer in Photography Phil is a lecturer in photography on the Visual Communications course where she teaches a variety of aspects of photography from film and darkroom work to studio lighting and digital darkroom. 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 Phil continues to integrate in her teaching practice. David Smith – Joint Programme Co-ordinator and Lecturer Design and Typography Following his postgraduate studies at L'Atelier National de Recherche Typographique, he worked freelance in Paris most notably for Integral-Ruedi Baur et Associes. He then moved to the Netherlands to work with UNA (Amsterdam) Designers. David established his own design studio Atelier in February 2000 and his work has gained International recognition through awards and commendations from the Type Directors Club New York, Association Typographique Internationale (AtypI) and the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD). His work for the Asko and Schonberg Ensembles (designed and developed at UNA) received the Nederlands Huisstijl Prize (2001) for the best Dutch corporate identity and a Premier award for typography from the International Society of Typographic Designers. To date Atelier projects have been published/exhibited in Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, Slovakia, UK, the Netherlands, China and USA. David was the previous programme co-ordinator from 2003-2007. Eoghan O Reilly – Lecturer in Drawing and Screeprint Eoghan teaches drawing, image-making and screenprint. He is a first class honours graduate of NCAD Fine Art Print and also has a HDip in Education from NCAD. He is a practising artist and has exhibited his work in both solo and group shows in Ireland. Eoghan also teaches portfolio preparation and theatre design at the Inchicore College of Further Education.