We asked our pals in NoBrow & Flying Eye Books for their top Christmas Guide for 2019, so if you are stuck for idea’s on what to buy the person who has everything, you have come to the right place. Nobrow In Waves Released earlier this year to widespread acclaim, In Waves by AJ Dungo […]
From the very first seek and find book that I opened by author and illustrator Brian Cronin, I was hooked, completely and utterly and transported into a magical world of colour and wild imagination. Bed time stories took way longer as myself and my daughters explored every inch of every page to find the answers, […]
Using what seems like every second of his time when he wasn’t working at The Mill+ in New York, Dublin’s Aran Quinn created our OFFSET London titles. We caught up with Aran to see exactly how it all went down and how he injected his quirky and inventive use of stop motion along with that cheeky sense of humour […]
We are counting down the days to OFFSET London and we are delighted to have award winning designer and artist, Morag Myerscough speaking on Friday afternoon. Founder of Studio Myerscough and a founding member of Supergroup, Morag is a hero of ours, creating immersive and engaging places out of spaces. We caught up with her despite her very […]
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 […]
After 20 years off the telly, Danger Mouse came back on our screens this week on CBBC. Offset stalwart and illustrator Steve Simpson worked on the original cartoon at Cosgrove Hall over twenty years ago. I dropped him a line during the week to see what he makes of the new updated version and to […]
This Friday sees the 10th incarnation of Culture Night and amongst the many events taking place, one of our picks for the night is illustrator and artist Aoife Dooley‘s Dublin Hun for Downstairs Dublin along Merrion Square. Aoife was invited to be an ambassador this year for Culture Night and she will be doodling caricatures […]
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, […]
Packed full of examples of work from 75 of the world’s greatest graphic designers and a couple of former OFFSET speakers, Caroline Roberts’ ‘Graphic Design Visionaries’ lays out beautifully and in chronological order the visionaries who have shaped the field of graphic design over the last 100 years. The book is easy to navigate with […]