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Offset Dublin 2018 | Title_Sequence Title sequence for Offset Conference 2018, Dublin. For this title sequence, 6 MPC directors were each given 1 letter from the word 'Offset' and with this letter design and created their own film. All 6 were films were brought together to create the Offset 2018 titles.

MPC creative - mpccreative.io/project/qmjtble

Offset - iloveoffset.com/

Client: Offset
Directors: Rupert Cresswell, Ryan Hays, Diarmid Harrison Murray, Donal O'Keeffe, Kenneth Robin & Marc Smith
(in order of appearance):
“O” Diarmid Harrison-Murray
“F” Donal O’Keeffe
“F” Marc Smith
“S” Rupert Cresswell
“E” Ryan Jefferson Hays
“T” Kenneth Robbin

Title Design & Glitch VFX: Jessica Gaynor
VFX: Charles Downman, Erik Norrhede, Alexis Williams
Executive Producer: Richard Skinner
Audio Design: Echolab
Motion Design: Jess Gaynor

VFX Team - F-Bomb film: Charles Downman, Alexis Williams, Matthew Gifford, Erik Norrhede, Michael Drayton

AOIFE DOOLEY | OFFSHOOTS | OFFSET DUBLIN 2018 She might only be 5ft tall but she is five feet of a razor sharp comedic genius! Aoife Dooley is an illustrator; author and comedian based in Dublin, that is carving out a name for herself in the illustration, typography, graphic design and sketch comedy world. Best known for her web series ‘Your One Nikita’ (formally known as Dublin Hun) that is based on life living on the north side of Dublin, people Aoife grew up with in Coolock and aspects of her north side Dublin experiences. Her illustrations and humour is undeniably tear jerkingly funny. Aoife was one of the 4 speakers as part of our new OFFSHOOTS series of 4 x 10min talks on the main stage.

ALE MERCADO | OFFSET DUBLIN 2018 Alé Mercado was born in Granada. Although he studied and worked as an industrial engineer, his passion always was comics and cinema. That took him to eventually quit his job with a major corporation and focus on graphic design, illustration and comics. Alé has been working in all areas of design and has published his own children’s books and comics. His work is completely digitally created and is graphically striking. His strong, dark, witty style takes inspiration from traditional print and ensures that every images is purposeful to the brief it is designed to serve.

Over the years his work has gathered recognition. Recently he was shortlisted for the prestigious Observer/Comica/Jonathan Cape Short Story Competition and shortlisted for the IDI Irish Design Awards. Despite his array of experience, Alé continues to create work that flourishes with spark and creativity, keeping it fresh and vibrant. He is based in Kilkenny since 2003 where he lives with Siobhán and their two children.

SUBSET | OFFSHOOTS | OFFSET DUBLIN 2018 SUBSET are a collection of artists, from various fields, exploring several mediums. If they see an opportunity to express themselves they go after it. What they do changes almost every day but so far they have worked on multiple artistic projects, most notable being their Stormzy, Gracie and Donald Trump pieces which have been a catalyst for discussion surrounding Dublin City Council’s approach to large format artwork in the public realm. They have also worked on client projects for brands such as Paddy Power, Red Bull Music, Conor McGregor, BMW, Dr. Marten’s, Kendrick Lamar and the DAA, to name but a few, in areas such as Sponsored Art Campaigns, Visual Communication, Video Production, Photography and Interior Design. They want to transform Dublin in to an open air gallery, they have aspirations of transforming the marketing industry and primarily they want to assist in Ireland’s recognition as a cultural juggernaut. SUBSET are one of the 4 speakers as part of OFFSHOOTS, a new series of 4 x 10min talks in the main stage.

ARICE | OFFSHOOTS | OFFSET DUBLIN 2018 Arice wants to recast personal experiences and perceptions; which come to life thanks to 3D graphics. By arousing emotions, evoking forgotten memories, or galvanising visions to freely interpret; Arice lets the viewers wander into alternative worlds through his eyes. For his work he rejects any kind of label.

His unique visual approach particularly in his work on fashion imagery and film has earned him notable commissions from Italian VOGUE and ETRO and many key award wins including the 2017 IDI Grand Prix, IDI Award Best CG Short Film 2017, Best Italian Fashion Film – Milan 2017, Best Experimental Film and Gold for Best VFX – Berlin Fashion Festival 2017, Best VFX – San Diego La Jolla 2017.

SEAN MURPHY | | OFFSET DUBLIN 2018 Sean Murphy is a creative director at Moving Brands in London. Since joining MB in 2015 he has worked on a diverse range of projects for clients including WAGGGS (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts), Veon and the BBC.

He has worked on campaigns, brand identities, exhibitions, editorial and special projects for clients such as Selfridges, Nike, Honda, Vogue magazine, Dolce and Gabanna, the Guardian and Wolford, and has taught at CSM, Ecal and the Royal College of Art.

DREW BENNETT | OFFSET DUBLIN 2018 Drew Bennett is an artist, designer, and curator who straddled the art and tech scenes in the San Francisco Bay Area for years, until his worlds collided in 2012. During the process of being commission by Facebook for another art installation, drew offered to found and lead a proper artist in residence program for the company instead. The result has been a bold new chapter in the history of corporate patronage of art.

This artist-founded, artist-forward program was conceived in the belief that the process of making art is as valuable as the finished product. It is committed to deeply trusting artists, to explore their practice, as the best tack to collaboratively realizing new work. Crucially, the program is based on the belief that art has a very real, and profound impact in inspiring, uniting, and challenging communities.

Facebook Artist in Residence program started at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park in 2012 offering local, early career artists the opportunity to make new, site-specific work in a trusted and unrestricted, corporate campus environment. The open-ended residency model has given way to a globally scaled site-specific commissioning program, that seeks out artists with an authentic presence in each community to make new work in all of the Facebook offices around the world. Last year Facebook supported over 125 new artworks globally. Last year, Facebook Artist in Residence program published a book surveying 225 artists’ works at Facebook over the first 5 years of the program and hosted a public art exhibition with new work by 50 of these artists in San Francisco. In the year ahead there is much more public engagement on the horizon: partnering with arts organizations, public art installations and events, and a whole lot more original site-specific art making opportunities for artists around the world.

RED DOG | OFFSET DUBLIN 2018 Red Dog opened for business on November 2nd, 1993 – the morning after founders Mary Doherty and Irene Gough graduated from the National College of Art and Design.

Based in Dublin and with an office in New York, they've built our reputation over the last 20- plus years by conceiving, designing, writing, producing and managing great work that helps their clients’ businesses thrive.

Ultimately, the most effective creative work comes from curiosity. So they work with people who are inquisitive, passionate about creativity, and focused on results. That’s why, in addition to the 14-strong team in their studio, they also work with the best writers, photographers, illustrators, and strategists to help them do the best work they possibly can.

"And it is events like Offset that inspire us to try even harder to make Red Dog as good as it can be."

RICHARD BRIM | OFFSET DUBLIN 2018 Richard Brim is the Chief Creative Officer and part of the new generation of leaders at advertising firm Adam & Eve/DDB. His work for clients such as The Sunday Times, Shelter and the Department for Transport has awarded him in every colour from all the major award shows.

He is the man behind multi award-winning Christmas campaigns including “Sorry, I Spent It On Myself” for Harvey Nichols and the “Monty the Penguin” & “ Buster” & most recently “Moz the Monster” Christmas campaign for John Lewis. Additionally, The Guardian recently listed him in the UK’s top 100 creative innovators and he was he was listed in both AdAge’s prestigious 40 Under 40 and Creative Review’s 50 Creative Leaders.

Adam & Eve/DDB was named 2017 Agency of the Year at the British Arrows in June and CampaignBig awards in November and was the second-most-awarded agency globally at D&AD in April and to top it off they have just been named APG Agency of the Year for 2017.

GAEL TOWEY | OFFSET DUBLIN 2018 Gael Towey is the former creative director of Martha Stewart Living and the founder of Gael Towey and Co. Gael designed the inaugural issue of the magazine, initiating the magazine’s distinct and iconic visual style that would give life to the joy of creativity for the next 22 years and counting.

After 22 years at the creative helm of Martha Stewart Living, Gael stepped away in order to pursue her long-standing interest in narrative. “Today I am endeavoring to translate those 20+ years of experience as a creative director and editor into short form profiles and I am working on a long form documentary about photography.”

Her great love is storytelling. “Portraits in Creativity,” the series of short-form documentary videos she directed and produced, seeks to capture the bravery of artists and artisans, and reveals the visual seduction of the creative process.

B+ | OFFSET DUBLIN 2018 (aka Brian Cross) was born and raised in Limerick, Ireland. He attended the National College of Art and Design in Dublin graduating in 1989 with a degree in painting. In 1990 he came to Los Angeles to study photography at the California Institute of the Arts. While at Cal Arts he began work on a project entitled, Its Not about a Salary: Rap Race and Resistance in Los Angeles, which was subsequently published by Verso Books in 1993. It was nominated as a Rolling Stone Music Book of the Year and made the NME critics best music book of the year list.

Since the publication of the book B+ has continued to work in the L.A. hiphop community. His first album cover work was for the Freestyle Fellowship (Inner City Griots). Since then he has done an estimated one hundred more for artists from Mos Def, Rza, Cappadonna, Q-Tip, Eazy E, Los Super Seven, Long Beach Dub All-Stars, Ozomatli, Jurrassic 5, Dialated Peoples, DJ Shadow, Company Flow, Blackalicious, Money Mark, David Axelrod, South Central Cartel, Warren G, Yusef Lateef, Madlib, J Dilla, Build an Ark, Cut Chemist, Damian Marley and Yesterday's New Quintet.

He was the photo-editor of Larry Flint’s ill fated highly influential Rappages from 1993 to 1997.

He has directed several music videos for DJ Shadow and ones for Nitro Microphone Underground (from Japan) and Control Machete (from Mexico). His latest venture puts old school drummers together with new school DJs and is entitled Keepintime: Talking Drums and Whispering Vinyl. The DVD of the project was released by Mochilla which is Cross’s production company with partner Eric Coleman and was a big success – subsequently the Sundance Channel bought the TV rights to the film and Ninja Tune released it in Europe and Australia.

The sequel Brasilintime: Batucada com Discos has just recently been finished and has premiered in Sao Paulo Brasil and is currently doing the film festival circuit.

B+ still lives in LA, answers his own phone, photo edits for Wax Poetics Magazine, still digs like crazy and DJs from time to time and is currently working on a book of photographs.

IVAN CASH | OFFSET DUBLIN 2018 Ivan Cash is an award-winning interactive artist and film director exploring the intersection of art, design, film, and technology. His work sparks cultural conversations, celebrates human connection, and inspires strangers to interact.

Through this approach, he’s connected thousands of strangers to draw each other, transformed thousands of emails into handwritten letters (published into a book), turned paper currency into protest, convinced complete strangers to share the last photo on their phones, raised awareness about data privacy, redefined the meaning of marriage, and made an 86-year old farmer famous.

His work has exhibited internationally, is in the permanent collection of the V&A Museum in London, has been featured in TIME, CNN, The New York Times, MSNBC, Fast Company, Wired, and received multiple Vimeo Staff Picks and Webby Honorees.

He has been recognized as a 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 artist, an Art Directors Club Young Gun, a Print New Visual Artist, and was named one of Fast Company’s ‘Most Innovative Companies.’

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he balances his time between running Cash Studios, making independent projects, and giving talks and workshops. Ask him sometime about how getting arrested lead to his first professional job.

BEATRICE ALEMAGNA | OFFSET DUBLIN 2018 Beatrice was born in Bologna, Italy in 1973 and now lives in Paris, the setting for her much-loved book, A Lion in Paris. A self-taught artist, she is the creator of over thirty multi-award winning picture books. She decided to become a painter and writer at the tender age of eight and has been producing highly original art and stories ever since.

Her books appeal to both the young and the young at heart and her work has inspired and influenced our own picturebook makers, from Niamh Sharkey to Chris Haughton.

MORE: www.beatricealemagna.com

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OFFSITE 2018 OFFSITE 2018, OFFSET's Fringe Fringe is a jam-packed week of Workshops, Masterclasses, Outdoor Lunchtime Talks, Sketchcrawl through the city, Panel Discussions, Book Launch, Exhibitions, Music, Delegate Party, Facebook Happy Hour and AOI Doodle Jam.

We are delighted to have also collaborated with IBM, Dublin City Council, A Playful City, Windmill Lane, Damn Fine Print, NoBrow, Dalton Maag, Offsketch, AOI, Illustrators Ireland, IDI Design Enterprise Skillnet, Each & Other, Glug Dublin, Hi Tone, Conor Purcell, Joshua Davis, 100 Archive, Tiny Ark, Public House, Choice Cuts, HQ Bar & Becks Beer to bring you a stellar lineup of events.

Production Company: Tiny Ark
Director: Charles Alexander
Cam Op: Charles Alexander, Ronan Fox, Colm Moore
B Camera Operator: Blaine Rennicks
Producer: Alex Delap
Ass. Producre: Megan Brady
Executive Producer: Nathan Reilly
PostProduction: Charles Alexander
VFX: Ronan Fox, Colm Moore

Music: WestOneMusic

Chris Ware | OFFSET DUBLIN 2018 Hailed as the master of the comic art form, Chris Ware is set to join the OFFSET Dublin 2018 line-up. A little secret, OFFSET HQ has been inviting Chris every year since OFFSET was launched but the stars never aligned until now, it only took ten years!!!

Chris was the first graphic novelist to win a major literary prize (The Guardian’s First Book award in 2001 for Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth). Chris is widely known for his New Yorker magazine covers, having contributed cartoons and over 30 covers to The New Yorker since 1999 and his award-winning comic strip, The Acme Novelty Library.

Chris has been widely recognized over his career, including winning multiple Eisner and Harvey awards. He was honored in the exhibition “Masters of American Comics,” at the Jewish Museum in New York City, alongside Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, and Will Eisner, as well as many others.

Chris is in conversation with John Walters from Eye magazine.

Frith Kerr | OFFSET DUBLIN 2018 Frith Kerr is an award winning graphic designer and founder of Studio Frith, celebrated for its original work and exceptional clients. Her studio has produced acclaimed work for some of the world’s leading cultural institutions, brands and artists. These include Frieze Art Fairs, Guggenheim New York, Ilse Crawford, Roksanda, Philippe Parreno, Michael Clark and Company, Hotel Il Pellicano, Skye Gyngell and Spring.

Frith has built a practice renowned for its visionary creativity and research led approach. The work can take many forms: from brand identity design to perfume bottles, campaigns to books, and packaging to films. Frith believes in the power of design as a creative strategic tool to develop and evolve businesses.

Frith studied at Camberwell College of Arts and at the Royal College of Art. She co-founded and ran the design agency Kerr|Noble for 11 years before setting up Studio Frith in 2009. She is a trustee of the Arts Foundation, a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and the only person in Who’s Who to list ‘reading in the bath’ under interests.

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