OFFSET speaker, Vince Frost certainly knows a thing or two about design. He began his prolific career as the youngest Associate Director at Pentagram and set up Frost* Design in 1994. His newest book follows Vince around the world from his modest beginnings through to his evolution at Pentagram and a modern history with his internationally famous agency Frost* collective. With minimal pictures and […]
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. […]
Thinking outside the box is always important when it comes to creative thinking and we think it’s good to start young designers early. Someone who knows all about that is our good friend and designer, Ahmad Fakhry, one half of Designgoat, a Dublin-based industrial design studio. We asked Ahmad to review My Crazy Inventions Sketchbook […]
We asked our neighbour in Smithfield Square Paul McBride from Detail Design Studio if he would like to do us the honour of reviewing New Perspectives in Typography by Henrik Kubel and Scott Williams. Here’s what he had to say about it. It’s been a while since I’ve had the time to sit down and […]
Hot off the press from Laurence King Publishing is the second edition of Exhibition Design. London based designer Philip Hughes offers a valuable insight into the briefing and preparation required for exhibition planning using knowledge from his experience as an exhibition designer and lecturer. In Exhibition Design Philip Hughes researches and displays the key techniques employed […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]