The Project Twins are Cork based design and art duo Michael and James Fitzpatrick. Their style of art and design creates playful graphic work across a broad spectrum of mediums. Their new show Sticky Thoughts is a collection of prints and paintings depicting their usual brand of humour, irony and wit and explores ideas […]
OFFSET 2014 speakers Detail are celebrating ten years in business (or as they would put it ‘tin’ years) and a gold bell at this year’s ICAD awards for their work on the recent Science Stamps for An Post. Following this we decided to make the short journey across the cobblestones here in Smithfield for a more detailed […]
The ICAD Awards have been running since the early 60s and reward creative excellence in Irish advertising & design. The best advertising and design creatives enter work across a range of categories – everything from websites, books, packaging and animation to TV and Integrated categories. This year the design category for the ICAD awards received […]
Summertime is upon us, which usually means for a certain section of the creative arts population, the constant search for a decent printer WITH ink, mount board, spray mount, a couple of sleepless nights along with the rush to get everything in on time or in other words final year graduation shows. Each year colleges up […]
Following on from our recent studio trip to Damn Fine Print, this week they will host their first solo screen-print show by resident print maker Neil Dunne. FLOOD / INTERPRET is a collection of new prints by this up and coming young artist. He creates intricate and layered imagery relevant to his personal experiences within the […]
Looking for an easy open access studio to work from and following a Kickstarter promotion in 2012, Kim Willoughby, Eric Greene and Alex Pacheco opened the doors to Damn Fine Print in Smithfield. Based on North Brunswick Street, DFP is now currently run by Kim Willoughby and studio manager Maisie McNeice. Over the last two Dublin OFFSETs we have […]
Our last installment for this series on Brown Bag Films is the award winning Peter Rabbit. Beatrix Potter’s classic tale has been brought to life for a whole new audience to enjoy in this special animated series. Directed by David McCamley Peter Rabbit had already won 3 Emmys in 2014 for Production Design, Art Direction and Storyboard and […]
Continuing our special series on Brown Bag Films we caught up with the multi award winning director of ‘Anya’ Damien O’Connor and it’s awarding winning music composer Darren Hendley. Anya is a five minute animated film, charting twenty years in the life of a Russian orphan. It is a unique initiative with the To Russia With Love charity to […]
After the success of the first OFFSKETCH in April, as part of the OFFSET 2015 schedule of events, Illustrators Ireland’s OFFSKETCH 2, in association with OFFSET and A4 Art, took place last Saturday, around Dublin’s fair city to celebrate National Drawing Day. There was over 70 plus attendees which included members of the IGI and some fortunate […]
‘An Ode To Love‘ is already a multi awarding winning short animation which has now just picked up another nomination, this time here at home from IFTA (best overall short). Director Matthew Darragh is a busy man, having been Episodic Director on Disney’s “Henry Hugglemonster” which has just finished its second season, he’s also writing a […]