Hidden Scientists, Hidden Creatives Exhibition Launch April 25 2024
Second year students from TU973 BA in Visual Communication Design from the School of Art and Design displayed posters of their project Hidden Scientists, Hidden Creatives in the East Quad foyer on 25th April. Each student, including three Erasmus students from Portugal, picked and studied a woman scientist and her work, chose a woman artist or designer to complement this research, and designed a poster of the scientist in the style of the artist. These 21 beautiful and unique posters will be on display over coming months in different locations in TU Dublin.
Matilda Cullen Knowles (Botanist) founded modern studies of Irish lichens following her work on the Clare Island Survey in the early twentieth century. She also shared curatorship of the National Museum of Ireland herbarium, a collection of dried and pressed plants now housed at the National Botanic Gardens.
Gail Anderson is a renowned graphic designer and typographer from the Bronx, New York. She worked as a designer at Random House Publishers. She became the senior art Director of Rolling Stone magazine, where she worked for 15 years. In 2013, Anderson designed the Emancipation Proclamation US postage stamp.
