NCAD Prospectus 2024/25

This year’s prospectus for the National College of Art and Design takes as its cue the college’s guiding statement: Bold and Curious Thinking, Making and Doing. To visualise this theme we asked tutors and students, past and current, to create Instruments of Creativity, under the brief of ‘See – Hear – Now’.

The results were photographed in NCAD, both as static, sculptural objects, and as dynamic instruments, being played, examined and disassembled. Alongside these photographs are illustrations created using a pen plotter, their slight distortion embracing the imperfection of the creative process. Photography of student work and campus life, graphic shapes, and interviews with alumni form a full picture of the college as a place of invention, energy and curiosity.