This category is for a fashion collection, incorporating both ready-to-wear and bespoke, across womenswear, menswear, childrenswear, and gender neutral practices.

This category is open to fashion accessory collections including but not limited to bags, millinery, belts, footwear, gloves.

This category is open to jewellery collections created with mixed materials including but not limited to upcycled materials, perspex, plastic, base metals, leather, glass, non precious stones.

This category is open to jewellery collections created with semi- precious or precious metals and/ or semiprecious or precious stones as their primary materials.

This category is for the design of fabrics; woven, knitted, printed, embroidered, mixed media and fabric manipulation. A series of finished textile products or textiles collections for fashion may be submitted.

This category is for any product that has been designed for and released into the commercial market. Products that will be sold, purchased and used by consumers such as electronics, household items, appliances, etc.

Candidates can submit any products for the non-consumer market, including industrial, heavy equipment and transport. Installations, machinery, industrial or contractor equipment, a product used by businesses.

This category is for pieces of bespoke or commercially produced furniture or lighting.

This category welcomes realised products by professional medical designers. Legally approved consumer healthcare products, medical devices, equipment, and tools are allowed, including any type of research equipment or instrument. Products with pending patents or approvals, as well as medicines or drugs, are not eligible.

This category celebrates new branding schemes for organisations of all sizes, and includes work by in-house teams.

This category is for branding schemes that are updated to maintain a tangible connection to an existing approach – through evolved visual language which maintains key elements from the previous iteration. This includes work by in-house teams.

This category celebrates how brand strategy can redefine a brand, reposition it and deliver a robust creative brief which in turn delivers a successful brand identity.

This category includes packaging for consumer goods of all kinds.

This category includes design with an output in print on paper or a similar material, with the exclusion of books and packaging (each have their own category). The category includes: annual reports, documents, magazines, newspapers, stamps, posters, flyers, and stationery.

This category is for any commercially available books – educational, text, children’s, art, coffee table etc.

This category includes narrative, or non-interactive moving image and motion Design, including: Title Design, Animated Short Films (<10 minutes).

This category includes design work where outputs from a single project have a shared goal or treatment, across a variety of touchpoints or media types.

This category includes newly launched websites of all kinds.

This category celebrates websites that are maintained and managed to a high standard, and which have evolved in their design, structure or use of technology.

The application of design to create and improve complex experiences which exist across a wide range of touchpoints and systems. People-centred, this includes those who deliver services and experiences and well as those who use them, and extends to the systems and structures that make impactful organisations tick.

This category includes digital products that meet a need for the user, and can include design systems, design of services and tools, product discovery, and user research.

This category includes any interactive experience created primarily to be experienced on a screen or on an internet-connected device, including: Websites, eCommerce sites, Retail Displays and Kiosks, Social Media Campaigns, Gaming, Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality (excludes app design)

This category includes native mobile and tablet apps.

This category includes design work for social media, including individual post and campaigns.

In this category entrants are asked to submit work where imagery is an intrinsic element of the design solution. These could take the form of photography, illustration, CAD, drawings and other visuals developed to support the design communication

In this category entrants are asked to submit work where copywriting is an intrinsic element of the design solution.

In this category entrants are asked to submit illustrations used commercially or in a publishing context, including outputs for screen, print and environmental applications.

In this category entrants are asked to submit work where typography and/or lettering is an intrinsic element of the design solution.

In this category entrants are asked to submit work where data and information visualisations in any medium is an intrinsic element of the design solution.

In this category entrants are asked to submit work where use of technology is an intrinsic element of the design solution.

This category celebrates the achievements in interior design of retail spaces, including shops, concessions, shopping centres, showrooms, sales centres, niche shop offerings, foodhalls and forecourts.

This category celebrates the achievements in the interior design of hospitality spaces including hotels, guest houses, hostels, cafes, bars, restaurants, clubs, and cinemas.

Projects in this category will be interiors designed for commercial use. Entries may include offices, cultural spaces, educational buildings, public amenities, government buildings, leisure spaces and health and wellness spaces.

This category is for any commercial architecture project. Entries may include offices, cultural spaces, educational buildings, hospitality spaces, retail, public amenities, government buildings, leisure spaces and health and wellness spaces.

This category is for any individual interior for residential use and includes renovations, extensions, and alterations to existing residences.

This category is for any individual residential architecture project.

This award will recognise design and architecture that demonstrates high levels of user satisfaction and comfort for any multi-residential architecture project. This category is for any multi-dwelling interior or series of interiors for residential use and includes renovations, extensions, and alterations to existing residences.

This category is for all temporary or permanent exhibition and set designs and pop up experiences including stage, television and film sets, commercial and non-commercial exhibitions, expos, visitor attractions, festivals, and trade shows.

In this category entrants are asked to submit work that has been constrained by space/site conditions but have achieved a level of invention, creativity, crafts, and collaborative excellence. Projects of all functional types across design and architecture may be considered.

This award recognises this year’s Design Practice Team of the Year.

This award recognises this year’s In-House Team of the Year.

This category recognises innovative work by educators who are Institutional IDI members. Entries should go further than day-to-day teaching activities within an institution but rather should demonstrate innovative pedagogical practices, partnerships within a commercial or social context, design research, and collaborative or interdisciplinary approaches. Projects should show the impact of design and engage with learner groups in a meaningful way. The award recognises the role design education, and individual educators, play in shaping the future of the design sector. (Individual student work should not form part of the entry)

This special award recognises that to achieve excellence, design must be universally accessible and applicable, regardless of the age, size, or ability of those who experience or use it.

The aim of this award is to discover and celebrate new design industry stars who identify as female. It is open to those who have been in the Irish design industry for up to five years, regardless of age.

The aim of this award is to recognise and and celebrate designers from under-represented communities who are making an impact in their work, their practice, or community. Under-represented communities include groups that have been historically overlooked or marginalised in design. This award will be presented to a named individual on the team.

This awards an outstanding client who has shown continual support for and understanding of the value that design brings to brands/products and organisations.

This award will go to a design project that has made the world a better place by bringing about positive societal, political or environmental change. The projects could be based on fundraising, building awareness or meeting a physical need.