Brenda Dermody
Brenda Dermody is a graphic design writer, educator, researcher, and practitioner based in Dublin, Ireland. Her design practice is situated within multiple institutions, organisations, communities, and committees, operating across a wide spectrum of roles and activities. Her book 'New Retro: Classic Graphics, Today’s Designs', co-authored with Teresa Breathnach and published by Thames & Hudson was translated into several languages.
Dermody lectures in typography and design at Technological University Dublin, where she leads multiple research projects often with not-for-profit and community organisations. She is a board member and Fellow of the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD), and is the national lead for the annual ISTD Student Assessment Scheme.
Dermody commissions stamps on behalf of An Post and the Irish Government, and this has led to her research as a Doctoral candidate at TU Dublin School of Media, using graphic design practice as a mechanism through which to explore and make visible the processes and networks embedded in the commissioning and design of postage stamps for the Irish State.
As a graphic designer practitioner, Dermody focuses on the communicative effects of typography and design, exploiting the affordances of materiality to enhance reading experience. Examples of her typographic work are held in the Graphic Collection, Princeton.