We All Love Offset

Bren introducing Offset 2013

The first week in April saw the opening of the 2013 Offset creative festival in Dublin’s Bord Gaís Energy Theatre.

Over 25 wold class creatives gave presentations this year, many home grown Irish talent like Niamh Sharkey, Ciarán ÓGaora, Eoghan Kidney and Gavin O’Sullivan took to the stage along side international peers such as Ben Bos, Bob Gill, Iain Tait and Vaughn Oliver.

The highlights are too many to count! Personally, Bob Gill’s stand up routine where he picked hecklers out of the crowed was one. The irreverence and humor of The Stone Twins and Vaughn Oliver was certainly something which raised an eyebrow or two. The beautifully elegant work of Louise Fili, photography from Oliviero Toscani  and the motion graphics from Eoghan Kidney were also personal highlights.

It’s at events like this you wish you had a bi-location ability as there is so much to see.

You can see some of last year’s talks over on Vimeo

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Louise Fili

Stone Twins

Bob Gill and Steven Heller

Niamh Sharkey

Ben Bos

The Green Way

Interaction Design Conference

This February sees yet another great design event coming to Dublin!

IxDA Interaction Dublin runs from February 1st to the 4th in The Convention Center Dublin. 75 speakers, 4 Days, workshops, break out events. Simply unmissable for those involved or with an interest in interaction design.

Workshops include Interface Design, Prototyping, Design Language for Interaction, Accessibility and Gamification.

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International Journal of Art and Design Education Conference 2011

I was recently selected by The National Society for Education in Art and Design to present my research into Continuing Professional Development for Communication Designers at the iJade academic conference held in the University of Chester, UK.

This prestigious two-day international conference of art and design education brought people from as far as China and the USA to discuss and debate current pedagogy in education in the creative fields.

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InAEA

Download the full research on professional development here: http://bitly.com/ejTQoU

G6 Series: World Industrial Design Day 2011

 

Wednesday 29th June 2011 is ICSID World Industrial Design Day and to mark the occasion, DIT and the G6 Series together with Pivot Dublin are hosting a day long workshop in The School of Art Design and Printing, DIT, Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1.

Starting at 09:30 and finishing at 17:00 this FREE workshop is open to all and will explore the World Industrial Design Day theme:

Industrial Design: How does it improve your life?

We will be examining this question under the four themes from Pivot Dublin bid to make Dublin World Design Capital in 2014:

Connecting Cities, Making Cities Lighter, Making Cities Flow and Making Cities Smile

The event is free, designers and anyone interested in design is welcome.

Please contact email barry@sheehan.ie 00 353 87 259 2546 if you would like to attend.

Click here to download the brochure.

Typoszene Irland

Con Kennedy has been featured in the renowned German design and typography magazine PAGE.

Following on from the AtypI conference in September, where three of Con’s typeface designs were discussed as part of a presentation about the classification of non-Latin alphabets, the article entitled “Typoszene Irland” discusses current Irish typography and design in a modern context and includes an interview with Con Kennedy.

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G6 Series

The third G6 Series lecture entitled “They named the company after me: How and why I started a Design Practice
” takes place this week and features Jenny Walsh, Bob Gray and Barry Sheehan. More>>

Date: Wednesday 9th March.

Location: Room G6, DIT Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1.

Time: 6.30PM sharp.

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G6 Series

The second G6 Series lecture entitled “Forget flippin’ burgers, I got a job in a design office” take place this week and features Naoise Ó Conchubhair, Paul Finnegan and Gregor Timlin. More>>

Date: Wednesday 9th Februrary.

Location: Room G6, DIT Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1.

Time: 6.30PM sharp.

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G6 Series

This talk will now take place Wednesday 8th December

Following on from the positive feedback received from the “How I became a designer” talk at Design Week 2010, myself and DIT colleague, Barry Sheehan have decided to expand on themes that came up for discussion as part of the questions and answers and tune them into a series of talks.

Starting on Wednesday 1st December and running monthly, this first talk is entitled “What they didn’t teach me in college” and features myself, Architect, Gavin Buggy, Product Designer, Martin Ryan and Digital Media Designer, Cormac O’Conaire.

Speakers will discuss what they learned in-industry and how the practical side of working as a professional designer differs from the academic side of being a student of design.

Date: Wednesday 8th December.

Location: Room G6, DIT Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1.

Time: 6.30PM sharp.

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This talk will now take place Wednesday 8th December

Unlocking the potential of Cultural and Creative Industries

The European Commission published a Green Paper entitled “Unlocking the potential of cultural and creative industries”. This Green Paper raises issues and asks important questions. The answers will have a profound impact on Europe – ‘Unlocking the potential of cultural and creative industries’ is a significant undertaking … and success is neither guaranteed nor will it be easy.

In Ireland we have a particular set of issues around the ‘Culture & Arts’, ‘Creative, Design & Applied Arts Sector’ and ‘Business Innovation’ areas of commercial activity – and the education, distribution and performance infrastructure that nurtures and supports creative output in the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs).

Culture and Creativity are central topics in this Green Paper but of course Culture and Creativity spill-over into Business & Innovation, Education, the development of the city, and impact on issues like digital content distribution, digital production, creative collaboration, fusing the digital and physical worlds, taking Irish culture and creativity onto global markets, using Culture and Creativity competitively for economic development, and experiencing, making and expressing Creativity everywhere and all the time.

The fact that the EU Green paper is seeking to generate dialogue on the subject of how we can “Unlock the potential of cultural and creative industries” raises many questions including the most obvious – Why has this potential not been unlocked before? Is there really potential to be unlocked? Will policies that are developed from a wide cross-section of European regions work in Ireland? What are the changes that we must make in order to Unlock the potentials?

A number of professionals from various fields have come together to present their responses to the Green Paper. A media industry briefing/public forum is taking place on Wednesday 7th July in the Project Arts Centre in Temple Bar. It runs from 10.30am to 12.00 noon.

You can see the response papers here www.icce.ie and you can add your own responses …

Better still, if you are involved in Culture, Creativity, Innovation, Design, Education, or any related area go to the meeting and have your say there. You might be participating in the birth of a new European Renaissance!

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