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This volume features newspaper and magazine articles and photographs about the following:
Kilkenny Design Centre, Nassau St:
-Lakeshore foods available to buy at Kilkenny shop food section
-Article about Irish food available to buy at Kilkenny Shop
-Easter food available at Kilkenny Shop including Easter eggs, birds, hampers and simnel cakes
-Kilkenny Shop stocking Irish made Easter eggs, including Helena chocolate from Co. Mayo
-Fiona Teehan pictured with an Easter egg she won for the childrens section of the Easter bonnet Kilkenny Design Shop competition
-Clare Horgan pictured with her winning creation for the Easter bonnet competition at Kilkenny Shop
-Mary Dowling of Kilkenny Shop talks about catering and food products at the shop
-Trisha Casey whose ceramic bowls and vessels are available in Kilkenny Shop will give a demonstration of her work in the shop
-John Kelly is a new designer to sell his wood turned trinket boxes in Kilkenny Shop
-Furniture Fair at Kilkenny Shop with many items at cost price
-Army bomb disposals unit carried out a series of controlled explosions around the city as a man claimed devices had been left in places around the city including Kilkenny Shop, the shop was cleared and searches carried out by Gardai
-Joe & Anne Kane will be making ceramic and porcelain jewellery in the Kilkenny Shop and displaying their work
Kilkenny Design Workshops Designs and Products:
-Article about designs and logos for companies, with Kilkenny Design Workshops involved in giving many companies a facelift
-KDW designed entire range of office products but also worked on the packaging and graphics for Twinlock company
-Kilkenny Design Workshops to make £1500 chain of office for chairman of South Eastern Regional Development Board
-Hand painted Oisin Kelly birds have been reintroduced to Kilkenny Shop; Marie Hennessy is pictured painting the birds
Kilkenny Design Workshops Staff and Former Staff:
-Jim Dunne from Kilkenny Design is a lecturer on a Retail Marketing Course held in Dun Laoghaire
-Hilary Pratt has been appointed as a Director of KDW, she is joint managing director of Avoca Handweavers and is on the board of NCAD
-Article about Javelin Advertising agency which started out as KMMD, Jim King was a director at KMMD before he left for a job at KDW
-Article looks at the shareholders of Bank of Ireland with director of KDW and Irish Glass; Margaret Downes mentioned
Crafts People and Crafts Businesses:
-Photoshoot of male models wearing Gaeltarra Knitwear, Newmann trousers and Wexmann trousers
-Blarney Woollen Mills to rent 3 units on Nassau St and open one large retail outlet next to Kilkenny Design
-Linda Uhlemann to give jewellery demonstration of her jewellery with some of her work on display also at Kilkenny Shop
-20 year old Philip Treacy pictured with his winning hat that scooped first prize at the Kilkenny Design Shop Easter bonnet competition
-Interview with jewellery designer Agnez McKay, her work is currently available at Kilkenny Shop
-Article about IDA helping firms grow including Dympna Kelly who now sells in the Kilkenny Shop and was selected for the RDS Crafts Fair
-An appreciation to Liam Miller of Dolmen Press, he attended many Kilkenny Irish Book Design Awards
Other Kilkenny Design Workshop news:
-Kilkenny Shop opens in London with guests pictured at the opening
-There have been a number of capital cuts associated with business development, KDW however is to receive an extra £0.2 million this year
-Budget shows that the country was £24 million in debt in 1986, and will charge additional costs for the use of services such as CTT, IIRS, Kilkenny Design and other State agencies
-President of Nenagh Chamber of commerce and chamber members visited Kilkenny City, meeting Kilkenny Chamber, Bord Failte and visiting KDW
-KDW recently undertook a project to do a design audit for Liebert International’s new Modular Plus Environmental Control system
-Garo Electrical Agencies Ltd, received help from IIRS and KDW in establishing the manufacture of a sophisticated range of products
-Man jailed for admitting to receiving stolen goods including property of Kilkenny Design LTD
-Kilkenny Design Workshops have ended a collaboration with Irish Book Design Awards, as a result the Irish Book Design Awards is being formed as a limited company rather than lapse
Miscellaneous:
-Article about The Design Centre in London which is supported by the Design Council with focus on high quality British made goods
-DART station furniture and advertising helped them win the Kilkenny National Management Design Awards 1986
-Long article about the revival of knitting, from hobby to Aran traditional knitting, with mention of the fashion knitwear available in Kilkenny Shop
-Crafts in Kilkenny, article looks at the large amount of Craftspeople working in Kilkenny, with mention of Kilkenny Crafts Guild and originally KDW brought in a lot of craftspeople to the county
-Easter egg market booming in Ireland due to government crackdown on cross border shopping; Kilkenny Shop has a large selection on sale
-Recipes in RTE Guide, with a recipe for Kilkenny Shop Cookies by Mary Dowling
-The Youth Employment Agency came to Kilkenny and took part in Minicompany Programme for 13-25 year olds; Pat Henderson of KDW presented certificates to the teams
Kilkenny City:
-Kilkenny Archaeological Society looks for funding for the restoration of the 3rd house within Rothe House