Fatti Burke, known to her friends as Kathi, is a Dublin-based illustrator and designer. Hailing from Waterford originally, she has just launched her book, Irelandopedia, which she has co-written with her father John Burke. For her first book this is an impressively ambitious undertaking, with the father daughter teaming up to produce a children’s book […]
One of my old lecturers once asked me do I like books… generally? I thought he was cracked, I mean who doesn’t like books especially as a vis comm student I generally judged every book by its cover. So with that in mind we have invited publishers Laurence King to OFFSET London to judge all […]
The first Dublin Design Night with Yelp and Image Interiors took place last Wednesday, in 9 different venues around the city. Offset put the series link on for GBBO and with the promise of a different design experience in each venue we sipped, sampled and shopped our way around Temple Bar, George’s street and Drury […]
After 20 years off the telly, Danger Mouse came back on our screens this week on CBBC. Offset stalwart and illustrator Steve Simpson worked on the original cartoon at Cosgrove Hall over twenty years ago. I dropped him a line during the week to see what he makes of the new updated version and to […]
When Laurence King asked us to review The Book of the Dog, Dogs in Art by Angus Hyland we thought who better to review a book about dogs than Conor Stevens, the copy-writing half of creative partnership Mr&Mrs Stevens and one of the founders of The Doggie Do, Ireland’s first festival of Dog. This wonderful book […]
This Friday sees the 10th incarnation of Culture Night and amongst the many events taking place, one of our picks for the night is illustrator and artist Aoife Dooley‘s Dublin Hun for Downstairs Dublin along Merrion Square. Aoife was invited to be an ambassador this year for Culture Night and she will be doodling caricatures […]
Little Houses by Helen Musselwhite and published by Laurence King Publishing brings counting to life through the magical and colourful world of paper cut houses. Journey to lots of different little houses as you learn to spot and count from one to ten, (well, as your child learns to count from one to ten)! Helen’s […]
The Countdown Begins for Portfolio Lab. ICAD’s speed-dating type, event to help emerging creative talent break into ad land. Next Thursday, September 17th, the creative industry’s annual speed-dating and networking event for young talent takes place in Dublin. Run by the Institute of Creative Advertising (ICAD), Portfolio Lab aims to help emerging talent break into the advertising […]
There are now 34 titles in the Roads Classics series. The first ten were published in 2013. The covers, layout and over all design structure of the books were initially developed by OFFSET 2012 speakers Conor & David. Roads were keen that the artwork represents a gentle nod, or an abstract reference to each novel, […]
To whet your appetite even more for OFFSET London, we’ve also announced the design heavy weight Vince Frost to our already stellar line up! Vince is the founder and Executive Creative Director of Frost*collective, Sydney and we’re delighted that he’s going take to the main stage at OFFSET London November 12th and 13th. Vince […]