OFFSET London

With over 2,500 attendees to our Dublin event each year, OFFSET has fast become one of the world’s most inspirational, educational and vocational conferences for the design and creative industries. This year we decided to stretch our wings and made our way to London to host our first international OFFSET in the historic Shoreditch Town […]

Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs Of People | Book Review

The latest offering from photographer Henry Carroll comes in the form of Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs Of People. Published by Laurence King, this is the follow up to the hugely successful Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs and it certainly packs just as much of a punch. […]

A New Perspective with Morag Myerscough

We are counting down the days to OFFSET London and we are delighted to have award winning designer and artist, Morag Myerscough speaking on Friday afternoon. Founder of Studio Myerscough and a founding member of Supergroup, Morag is a hero of ours, creating immersive and engaging places out of spaces. We caught up with her despite her very […]

Irelandopedia | Book Review

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 […]

Computer Arts Exclusive OFFSET offer

As an exclusive offer to OFFSET attendees, you can save up to 50% when you take out a subscription to Computer Arts! Enjoy up to date coverage of global industry trends, behind the scenes access to innovative design briefs and much more. Computer Arts is the world’s best-selling magazine for designers, delivering creative insight and inspiration […]

Laurence King at OFFSET London

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 […]

Dublin Design Night

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 […]

Danger Mouse

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 […]

The Book of the Dog | Book Review

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 […]

Story Hun? | Culture Night

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 […]