NGO client list spurred US success of design firm Red Dog

Mary Doherty, founder of creative and design agency Red Dog Pic: Fergal Phillips

Donegal-born Mary Doherty set up creative and design agency Red Dog in Dublin in 1993 with co-founder Irene Gough just one day after their graduation from the National College of Art and Design with degrees in visual communications.

Twenty-five years on, Doherty has seen the agency expand into the US with the opening of a New York office in 2012.

“This will make me sound ancient, but 25 years ago we had no ...