Acting up for Autumn
August 27th, 2010
To end the week on a dramatic note we’ve just received the programme we designed for the Autumn season at the Ark title ‘Inspiring Theatre’. They have some great shows on this season so if there’s a theatrical tendency in your children this isn’t to be missed.
Exhibit Me!
August 26th, 2010
As part of the summer programme at the Ark they’ve just launched Exhibit Me!—an evolving exhibition of children’s art. We jumped at the opportunity to photograph the huge type which they’ve painted on the wall in the space. Cleverly they’ve used leftover programme covers to clad the kids workshop tables too. If you’re in the area we’d recommend you check it out!
Whats cooking?
August 26th, 2010
We’ve just finished some recipe cards for Dublin’s finest meat merchant—Ennis Butchers in Rialto. We wanted to help spice up your trip to the butchers with some free printed delights. The photography is a good mix of ours and Monsieur Mike O’Toole’s, styled lovingly by Anne Marie Tobin. For the print savvy they’re printed on this great double sided board we came across—textured one side, silky smooth on the other. If you’re hungry for some culinary concoctions why not pop in.
Absolut Fringe 2010
August 17th, 2010
Our work on this years Absolut Fringe programme and website went live last night. Always good to launch a project into the real world and we’re looking forward to hearing what folks think of them. The cover for the programme is a collage of the fringe f as photographed by 30 camera-wielding festival fans. The corner of each image is tagged with a number and their portraits appear on the back cover. Loads of great things to see and do as always at this years festival, so grab a programme, go to the website and get involved.
exportise
August 16th, 2010
To anybody working as a designer it’s no secret that good work happens with good clients. So we consider ourselves doubly lucky that one of our good cleints recommended us to her husband and it turns out that he’s a good client too. The new client is exportise – a new consultancy to assist Irish companies develop their sales infrastructure and impact on European markets. The identity builds on the business’ human approach, which starts with the right hello.
The kids are alright
August 11th, 2010
We just completed the printed programme for this years Roola Boola children’s arts festival at The Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar. We added some activities to the spreads and kept the layouts pretty much black and white with little spots of colour. The line-up is great and we’d recommend anyone with kids in the Castlebar area or beyond to have a look and head along.
Caught in the net
August 9th, 2010
Over the last few months we’ve been broadening our scope a tad and familiarising ourselves with the world of the interweb. Here are a few links to websites we’ve completed recently.
Jump
Ballyportry Castle
Annette Nugent
Willie McCreery
Arms AW 2010/11 Launch
August 9th, 2010
The official press launch of the Arms AW2010/11 menswear collection took place last week. Really good to see such a great turnout and positive response to all Renate’s hard work. No less than is deserved though, the clothes are fantastic. We helped out with some nice decals, a Scandinavian influenced clothes rack, a new website (full version coming soon) and a handy Arms notebook. We’ll upload everything soon but for now, get yourself over to madeforyoubyarms.com and start making your wishlist.
Mike O’Toole – Childhood
July 28th, 2010
Good luck to Mike O’Toole who’s heading to Rhubarb in Birmingham this weekend to meet some people about his new project – The Shrinking Horizons of Childhood. It’s a beautiful project dealing with the fact that children are spending less and less time outdoors. We produced a simple presentation portfolio in an edition of 20. We’ll upload images soon.
Samaritans
July 28th, 2010
We recently completed a simple to-the-point campaign for Dublin Samaritans, designed to draw peoples attention to the different ways they can make contact. A simple message set in the organisations font (Elephant by David James Associates) and strong colours combine to direct and noticeable effect.
Aad at Offset 2009
July 23rd, 2010
Scott from Aad talks 7 year cycles, the existence of graphic design and the natural work state of beagles as the opening speaker of Offset 2009, an exceptional event that we were delighted to be part of. Don’t delay in booking your tickets for Offset 2010, it promises to be another cracker. WARNING – the video clip contains the rantings of a madman and a few choice swear-words.
Gaze 2010
July 15th, 2010
It’s that time of year again. We’ve just completed the promotional material for Gaze Film Festival 2010. As always the festival is really strong, as always the quality of the images we received was an embarrassment of riches, and as always, rather than deciding on one to grace the programme cover, we decided to print 3 different covers.
Absolut Art
July 13th, 2010
We recently completed some graphic illustrations to announce Absolut’s sponsorship of the Galway Arts Festival visual arts programme. All kudos to Absolut who allowed us to besiege their bottle with our amorphous graphic splodges.
Deck the Halls
July 1st, 2010
The Small Print are curating a show for this weekends Kings of Concrete event and they were good enough to ask us to submit something. They gave us a blank deck and asked us to do what we wanted with it. As always, we went a bit off-brief building a skateboard using only materials found in the stationary store (well maybe a few from the hardware store too). The exhibition is running at the Bernard Shaw from Friday 2nd – Sunday 4th July. There’s loads of amazing talent involved so do your best to get along for a pint and a peruse.
Summer at the Ark
June 2nd, 2010
Over the last few months we’ve been working with the lovely people at The Ark — The cultural centre for children for those out of the loop. Check out their new visual arts summer season where kids will be running riot with all sorts of materials. We got experimental ourselves with some metallic pantone goodness. Keep an eye out for them around town!
To meet you … nice!
May 17th, 2010
Another lovely book arrived in the post today from victionary. Yours truly are featured once again for the work we did for Tallaght Community Arts. There’s nothing like a bit of shameless self promotion to kick off the week.
DDF 2010
April 30th, 2010
We’ve been working so hard on Dublin Dance Festival’s 2010 stuff that we forgot to tell you all about it. DDF 2010 / May 8 – 23. Tickets selling fast, pick up a programme, head to their website and book a ticket soon.
Getting around
April 1st, 2010
We recently worked with jump! and Tourism Ireland to deliver a couple of to-the-point strategy documents for UK and German markets. Full case study soon.
Oh! It’s on…
March 25th, 2010
It’s always the way. You work on something for ages, you think it’s got its own thing going on and then just as you put it out there someone else does too! Trouble is this time it’s Creative Review which I’m pretty sure has more followers than us. So before we’re accused of biting their new masthead let it be known that we’d be more than happy to settle this with an arm-wrestle. Over to you CR.
Hot off the press
March 16th, 2010
We’re over the moon to be featured in this beautiful new book by victionary called ‘By Invitation Only’. In fact we did feel a bit bad ripping this badboy open to have a peek.
New Arms lookbook
March 10th, 2010
Made with blood, sweat and lasers we just finished the new Autumn–Winter 2010/11 lookbook for Arms. Keep an eye on the Arms page in our projects for more updates soon.
Bright New Hope
March 5th, 2010
We designed the identity for a new cafe in Queens University, Belfast last year. We still haven’t managed to get ourselves up there to document it and put it on our website yet, so for now here’s the font we designed for them.
Arms AW 2010/11
March 5th, 2010
Our friendly neighbourhood fashion friends Arms (by neighbourhood we mean downstairs) just get stronger and stronger. Their AW 2010/2011 collection is their strongest yet and we’re delighted to be helping them out with some bits and pieces. Watch this space….
No. 38
February 2nd, 2010
We’re finally finished [pretty much...] our new office space. Back in the hustle and bustle of downtown Dublin. So if you’re in the area, No. 38 Clarendon Street is our new address. Feel free to call in, just don’t forget the biscuits.
New Butchers Website
February 2nd, 2010
We’re currently helping Dublin’s best butcher (our words, not his). Ennis Butchers in Rialto are passionate about the quality and provenance of all their meat, you won’t find any steroid-induced chicken breasts here and so you won’t find any steroid-induced bells and whistles in the identity and website we’re developing for them either. Just good old fashioned straight-talking .
Website Launched (at last)
February 2nd, 2010
New year, new decade, new studio, and by jingo, we’ve even got a new website! Come, look around, take your time and enjoy.
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