Draft:Dr Con Kennedy

Dr Con Kennedy
Dr Con Kennedy
Born	Con Kennedy; Dublin, Ireland
Nationality	Irish
Occupation	Lecturer
Title	Doctor of Philosophy
Academic background
Education	Technological University Dublin
Alma mater	Technological University Dublin
Thesis	What is the Entrepreneurship Process for Communication Design Enterprises? (2023)
Doctoral advisor	Professor Thomas Cooney
Academic work
Discipline	Visual Communication Design
Sub-discipline	Design Entrepreneurship and the Creative Economy
School or tradition	Art and Design
Institutions	Technological University Dublin
Website	https://www.conkennedy.com/

Review waiting, please be patient.

This may take 2 months or more, since drafts are reviewed in no specific order. There are 1,909 pending submissions waiting for review.

If the submission is accepted, then this page will be moved into the article space.
If the submission is declined, then the reason will be posted here.
In the meantime, you can continue to improve this submission by editing normally.

Where to get help

If you need help editing or submitting your draft, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors. These venues are only for help with editing and the submission process, not to get reviews.
If you need feedback on your draft, or if the review is taking a lot of time, you can try asking for help on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject. Some WikiProjects are more active than others so a speedy reply is not guaranteed.

How to improve a draft

Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a basic overview on how to edit Wikipedia.
Help:Wikitext – how to use the markup
Help:Referencing for beginners – how to include references
Wikipedia:Article development – how to develop your article
Wikipedia:Writing better articles – how to improve your article
Wikipedia:Verifiability – make sure your article includes reliable third-party sources

You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article.

Improving your odds of a speedy review

To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags.

Add tags to your draft

Editor resources

Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs

Reviewer tools

Instructions · What links here · Dr Con Kennedy (talk: + · bio) · (log) · Copyvios report · reFill · Citation Bot · (Search: Google, Wikipedia) · Submitted 70 minutes ago by Antediluvian2009 (talk: D · +) · Last edited 3 seconds ago by Antediluvian2009

Submission declined on 30 January 2025 by Drmies (talk).

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you have not resolved the issues listed above, your draft will be declined again and potentially deleted.
If you need extra help, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors.
Please do not remove reviewer comments or this notice until the submission is accepted.

Where to get help

If you need help editing or submitting your draft, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors. These venues are only for help with editing and the submission process, not to get reviews.
If you need feedback on your draft, or if the review is taking a lot of time, you can try asking for help on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject. Some WikiProjects are more active than others so a speedy reply is not guaranteed.

How to improve a draft

Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a basic overview on how to edit Wikipedia.
Help:Wikitext – how to use the markup
Help:Referencing for beginners – how to include references
Wikipedia:Article development – how to develop your article
Wikipedia:Writing better articles – how to improve your article
Wikipedia:Verifiability – make sure your article includes reliable third-party sources

You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article.

Improving your odds of a speedy review

To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags.

Add tags to your draft

Editor resources

Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs

Declined by Drmies 9 hours ago. Last edited by Antediluvian2009 3 seconds ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

This draft has been resubmitted and is currently awaiting re-review.

Comment: Please remove all inline external links from body text, convert to citations where relevant. There should be no links pointing to external resources until the footnotes in the 'References' section (with the exception of one optional link in the infobox as specifically allowed by the infobox template). DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:11, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

Comment: Notability simply cannot be shown with LinkedIn and other resume links. Drmies (talk) 01:40, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

Con Kennedy (Born in March 1971) is an Irish graphic designer, researcher, and educator at Technological University Dublin School of Art and Design^[1], specialising in visual communication design and entrepreneurship in the creative sectors.

His public work includes design advocacy at the Institute of Designers in Ireland and DesignWeek^[2]. He is also the co-founder and design editor of the design journal Iterations| Design Research and Practice Review^[3].

Early Life and Education

Kennedy was born in Oliver Bond House, in the Liberties area of Dublin city centre^[4]. He was educated at St. Audoen’s National School on Cook Street and, later, at the Liberties Vocational School (now Liberties College of Further Education) on Bull Alley Street, adjacent to St. Patrick’s Street and St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Park. Kennedy subsequently enrolled at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) College of Marketing and Design (COMAD) in Mountjoy Square, where he was conferred with a BA (Hons) in Visual Communication Design in 1995^[5].

Kennedy returned to DIT in 2008, where he was conferred with a Master of Arts Degree in Professional Design Practice in the following year. He returned a third time to Technological University Dublin (formerly DIT), where, in 2023, he was conferred a Doctor of Philosophy from the TU Dublin School of Entrepreneurship and Marketing for his research on business models for graphic design enterprises^[6]^[7].

Research and Career

Kennedy began his professional career as a graphic designer in 1995^[8]. He worked as a senior designer for several prominent design companies, focusing on brand identity, corporate literature, and packaging design. In 2006, he formed his own design company^[9] and later became an adjunct lecturer in visual communication design at the Dublin Institute of Technology. He later took up a part-time role at IT Carlow (now SETU), where, in 2015, he developed the first Master of Arts in Interaction Design in Ireland. In 2018, Kennedy took up a permanent post as a lecturer in Visual Communication Design at his alma mater.

Kennedy is a TU Dublin Academic Council member and has served as a visiting design professor at the Gengdan Institute^[10] at the Beijing University of Technology.

Kennedy has played a pivotal role as a researcher in design entrepreneurship. He contributed to the 2016 Irish Government’s Policy Framework for Design in Enterprise in Ireland^[11]^[12]. He was also a consultant for the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs^[13] Winning by Design^[14] report. In 2011, his master’s research on continuing professional development^[15] was highlighted by Pivot Dublin^[16] as elevating Dublin City’s design standards as part of the bid to become the World Design Capital.

Kennedy’s primary research focus is on design entrepreneurship^[17] and business models^[18]. He has spoken at various conferences and authored several research papers^[19]^[20]^[21]^[22].

Awards and Honours

Kennedy’s graphic design work has been recognised internationally and featured in prestigious publications such as Creative Review (UK)^[23], Graphic Design USA, Page Magazine (Germany)^[24], Logo Lounge Design Trends, Logo Lounge Master Library Volume 3^[25], and Logolicious^[26]. He has also contributed to David Airey’s book, Work for Money, Design For Love^[27].

Kennedy has won several design awards, including two Institute of Designers in Ireland awards in 2012^[28] for Design Education and in 2015 for a Special Contribution to Design^[29]. Kennedy has been also featured in the irish media^[30]^[31].

References

[1] ttps://www.tudublin.ie/explore/faculties-and-schools/arts-humanities/art-and-design/ School of Art and Design

[2] "About / Design Week 2013". Archived from the original on 27 November 2013.

[3] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20160709200144/http://iterations.ie/

[4] ttps://www.conkennedy.com/about

[5] ttps://www.linkedin.com/in/conkennedy/

[6] ttps://researchprofiles.tudublin.ie/en/persons/dr-con-kennedy

[7] ttps://arrow.tudublin.ie/busdoc/53/

[8] ttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4703-9186

[9] ttps://core.cro.ie/e-commerce/company/457923

[10] ttp://www.gengdan.cn/en/sjex60353c.html

[11] ttps://enterprise.gov.ie/en/publications/policy-framework-for-design-in-enterprise-in-ireland.html

[12] ttps://arrow.tudublin.ie/buschmarrep/24/

[13] ttps://www.skillsireland.ie/

[14] ttps://enterprise.gov.ie/en/publications/winning-by-design.html

[15] ttps://arrow.tudublin.ie/aaschadpoth/5/

[16] ttp://www.pivotdublin.com// | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320040617/http://www.pivotdublin.com//

[17] ttps://arrow.tudublin.ie/buschmarcon/185/

[18] ttps://arrow.tudublin.ie/desigpart/20/

[19] ttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dmj.12096

[20] ttps://researchprofiles.tudublin.ie/en/persons/dr-con-kennedy

[21] ttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=G-0xhK8AAAAJ&hl=en

[22] ttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4703-9186

[23] ttps://www.creativereview.co.uk/the-2012-logolounge-logo-design-trends-report/

[24] ttps://page-online.de/typografie/typedesignszene_irland/

[25] ttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Logolounge-Master-Library-Shape-Symbol/dp/1592536905

[26] ttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Logolicious-Peleg-Top/dp/0061970123

[27] ttps://www.amazon.com/Work-Money-Design-Love-Frequently/dp/0321844270

[28] ttps://www.conkennedy.com/news-7

[29] ttps://www.conkennedy.com/news-5

[30] ttps://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2017/1027/915096-why-the-future-means-design-and-creativity/

[31] ttps://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/3135847/

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]

[12]

[13]

[14]

[15]

[16]

[17]

[18]

[19]

[20]

[21]

[22]

[23]

[24]

[25]

[26]

[27]

[28]

[29]

[30]

[31]