Kilkenny Design Consultancy is the group name for three design professionals who have been successfully working together for over 35 years and whose skills can be engaged individually or in combination according to the project need.
Founded since 1989 on the graphic, product, environmental design and model making capabilities established during an original existence as the national design service for Ireland (Kilkenny Design Workshops).
Operating from studio and fabrication facilities in the Kilkenny Design complex at Castle Yard, Kilkenny, we offer an integrated range of advisory, creative and production services, which can be tailored to meet the needs of entrepreneur to multi-national client.
Peter Dabinett
Graphic Design
Peter has over 50 years experience as a graphic design and packaging consultant throughout Europe, in Africa, the Caribbean and Middle East. Graduated from the West of England College of Art and Design, Bristol, in 1969, joined Kilkenny Design Workshops, Ireland and was involved for more than 18 years as a senior graphic designer/consultant during its period as the national design development authority of Ireland.
A founding member of Kilkenny Design Consultancy in 1989, he is involved in evaluating the marketing and product policy of companies, preparing and implementing corporate and brand identity, corporate literature, signage programmes and packaging design to conform with international regulations. He is also committed to overseas consultancy work in developing countries assisting companies improve their standards of packaging and promotional material, to promote exports and providing training workshops for professional and student designers.
Christian Shaw
Product Design
Christian has over 35 years of experience in professional design. He graduated from Manchester Polytechnic with a first class honours in Industrial Design, and has since worked on a wide variety of industrial and interior design projects, initially with Kilkenny Design Workshops and subsequently with KDC.
He finds the natural world a source of inspiration brimming with intelligent design, spurring the desire to help create elegant, functional and worthwhile products. He has enjoyed working with some large multinational companies (e.g. Abbott, Glanbia, Ferno), many small Irish companies and family firms, and individual entrepreneurs in healthcare, HVAC, electronics, food, industrial and giftware sectors.
He has an interest in helping companies develop their products towards sustainability and the circular economy, looking at materials and processes in the context of viability and economics.
Chris’s interest in the beauty of timber and modern technology has led to the creation of a series of art pieces. For more information see www.illumenart.ie
Rosemarie Ryan
Model Making
Rosemarie’s initial training in Product Design at Carlow Institute of Technology gave her a strong understanding of the value of good model making for marketing, engineering and display purposes. Having developed this interest at college, she completed her training at Kilkenny Design Workshops by 1987 and has since been working producing models for industry.
Rosemarie has broad experience of different types of model making, including ergonomic mock-ups, non-working models replicating appearance, to dimensionally precise representations of injection-moulded assemblies which allow evaluation of pre-production assemblies. She has also made scale models for exhibition and display purposes, and applied her finishing skills to 3D printed models to make them both attractive and convincing.
Rosemarie also has an interest in restoring and upcycling antiques, trading under the name ‘Rambling Rose Eclectic’.