Pass it on: Movember Exhibition

Artists, photographers, illustrators and designers from all over Europe and Ireland will unite under one roof on Thursday the 8th of November for ‘Pass It On’, a Movember poster exhibition.

Taking place in the confines of the Fumbally Café in Dublin 8, the Movember exhibition is an initiative set up by Gianni Clifford with help from Dublin based artist Orlaith Ross who wanted to give the creative community a way to get involved in Movember and raise some awareness and funds for Action Prostate Cancer.

Pass It On – Con Kennedy

‘Pass It On’ is inspired by Movember & Sons, the sharing of information from generation to generation and the power of knowledge. Each of the 43 creatives have designed an A3 poster which you will be able to buy for just €10 with 100% of the proceeds going to Movember. The exhibition will run for the rest of the month, so if you can’t come on the night you’ll still be able to drop into The Fumbally and pick one up.

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52 Shades of Greed!

52 Shades of Greed is not your average deck of cards.

It’s way hotter than that.

Brought to you by a team of professional illustrators (more importantly my old pal and all round good-guy, Steve Simpson) and the Alt Banking group at Occupy Wall Street, 52 Shades of Greed is a deck of playing cards bearing illustrations of the people and financial institutions whose lust for money took the rest of us for a steamy car ride toward economic collapse. Ever seen Dick Fuld or the infamous Kathryn Wylde at work? These cards hold nothing back, depicting even those awkward financial instruments you can’t believe anyone invented.

Ever heard of a Collateralized Debt Obligation? Well…if you’ve never ended up on the side of town where these are bought and sold, this deck will provide a picture. An actual picture, drawn by a pro.

Ace Spades by Steve Simpson

Everyone will be talking about the 52 Shades of Greed because we all wanna know who screwed us and how they did it. And we want pictures.
The cards will direct the curious to a website to get the dirty details on each Shade of Greed.

We believe that educating people is the first step towards turning that steamy car ride around. We need to know what’s going on before we
can stop it.

The money we raise will pay for the production of the cards, including a stipend for each artist. Our plan is to print 1000 decks and distribute them at S17, the anniversary of the September 17th Day of Action. Everyone fueling the project with at least a $25 contribution will get a deck. We would like to raise enough to enable us to stage events related to art and financial education.

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www.52shadesofgreed.com
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Punt Nua: Creative Economics

Recently I was contacted by Steven Ruane, who suggested the idea of organising an exhibition of work based on the concept of Punt Nua. We had the date of the 29th of May in mind as it was 2 days before the Referendum on the Fiscal Compact Treaty.

In less than 3 weeks we assembled 14 creatives and our guest speaker, Dr. Brian Lucey of Trinity College Dublin.

The participants included:
Con Kennedy
Damien Mulley
Eugene Langan
Fergus O’Neill
Kevin Devine
Maggie Moran & Denis Byrne
Marion Gilroy
Niall O’Loughlin
Siobhan Doyle
Stephen Lohan
Steve Simpson
Steven Ruane
Will St. Leger

Each creative was given an open brief, with the themes of political cronyism, corruption, collapse of the single European currency – but of course done in a satirical and humourous style.

The opening night was packed, with a Russian and and Italian News there to interview Brian!

Big thanks to everyone who participated, with special thanks to Maggie & Denis from DarcSpace and to Brian for the wonderfully witty speech.

The exhibition runs until 9th June and admission is free.

For more information see: http://www.darcspace.ie

#PuntNua featured on theJournal.ie

#PuntNua featured on LeCool Dublin

Punt Nua Commemorative Collection – Con Kennedy

Promissory Note – Con Kennedy

Been There, Seen That, Bought the Taoiseach – Con Kennedy

Namopoly: Crony Edition – Con Kennedy

#Mulleybucks – Damien Mulley & Tommie Kelly

Emergency Underpants – Fergus O’Neill

Namopoly – Kevin Devine

The Run of Ourselves – Maggie Moran & Denis Byrne

Waiting – Marion Gilroy

European Puppet – Niall O’Loughlin

Punt Portraits – Siobhan Doyle

Coalition – Stephen Lohan

Promise – Eugene Langan

£3 Pound Note – Will St. Leger

Invincible Browne – Steven Ruane

Señora Lavery – Steve Simpson

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DIT final year design student exhibition fundraiser

The 4th year Visual Communication students from DIT will host a fundraiser exhibition in Little Green Street Gallery on Tuesday 6th of March.
Admission is €5.

Posters will be on sale and there will be live music later on in the evening from “Arms That Fit Like Legs”

All funds raised will go towards the student graduate show.

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Crafting Type: The Power of Language and the Hands That Craft it.

Image: Mary Plunkett

Crafting Type: The Power of Language and the Hands That Craft it, is an exhibition taking place between 8th and 12th of March. Curated by Orlaith Ross the exhibition will cross the divide between craft and design.

The launch will take place on Thursday 8th of March, 2012 at The Factory, Barrow Street, Dublin 4  at 6pm with Professor John McMillan, School of Art and Design, University of Ulster and Education Officer, International Society of Typographic Designers.

This exhibition showcase will feature ten artists who place craft at the heart of their work and take inspiration from the written word, transforming typography and lettering using traditional and contemporary techniques in unexpected ways.

Exhibitors include:

• Orlaith Ross
• Mary Plunkett
• Jamie Murphy
• Naoise O’Conchubhair
• Thomas Glendon
• Gareth Colgan
• Logan McLain
• James Cullen
• Cian Corcoran
• Suzanne Murphy

Entry to the exhibition is free, and is open 10-5pm daily.

More information:
http://craftingtype.tumblr.com/
orlaith@orlaithross.com
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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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2 Identities published in the latest Logolounge book

The latest in the prestigious Logolounge series has just been released by Rockport Publishers.

The third in the series LogoLounge Master Library focuses on Shapes and Symbols and contains over 3000 brand identities from the world’s leading design agencies.

We are proud to say that identities we designed for our clients Picturebox and Refresh have been published in this book.

This is the second international design book that we’ve been featured in this year, following inclusion in Logolicious published by Harper Collins.

Purchase this book on Amazon

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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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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