Understand the art world? No, we don’t either! Luckily, The New Curator, by Natasha Hoare, offers some serious insight into some of the most innovating and interesting practices today, including Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin and Art Angel. A ubiquitous word in contemporary culture, the term ‘curate’ can be interpreted in a number of ways. Originating from the Latin word curare […]
Fill up on some street art inspiration this holiday season with OFFSET talks from some of the masters in the industry. We’ve pulled together 5 of the most inspirational public art talks from our archive. But firstly delve into New York Street Art Collective, Faile, talking to Communication Designer at Facebook, Ji Lee, on a Second Room panel […]
Hate Mail : The Definitive Collection is the ultimate retrospective of London-based illustrator/designer, Mr Bingo and his hugely popular Hate Mail project. Since 2011 and starting off on Twitter, Mr Bingo has sent 928 vintage postcards embellished with offensive messages to recipients around the world. This book, the ‘Rolls Royce’ of books, is a beautiful, high […]
Looking for the perfect gift for a designer (or want to give someone a hint about what you’d like)? Try this list we compiled of the 10 Christmas Gift ideas for designers inspired by the Offset 2016 speaker line-up so far…. OFFSET 2016 Tickets Considering Offset Design Festival has sold out the last 3 years its advisable […]
With over 2,500 attendees to our Dublin event each year, OFFSET has fast become one of the world’s most inspirational, educational and vocational conferences for the design and creative industries. This year we decided to stretch our wings and made our way to London to host our first international OFFSET in the historic Shoreditch Town […]
The Project Twins are Cork based design and art duo Michael and James Fitzpatrick. Their style of art and design creates playful graphic work across a broad spectrum of mediums. Their new show Sticky Thoughts is a collection of prints and paintings depicting their usual brand of humour, irony and wit and explores ideas […]
Summertime is upon us, which usually means for a certain section of the creative arts population, the constant search for a decent printer WITH ink, mount board, spray mount, a couple of sleepless nights along with the rush to get everything in on time or in other words final year graduation shows. Each year colleges up […]
Following on from our recent studio trip to Damn Fine Print, this week they will host their first solo screen-print show by resident print maker Neil Dunne. FLOOD / INTERPRET is a collection of new prints by this up and coming young artist. He creates intricate and layered imagery relevant to his personal experiences within the […]
Looking for an easy open access studio to work from and following a Kickstarter promotion in 2012, Kim Willoughby, Eric Greene and Alex Pacheco opened the doors to Damn Fine Print in Smithfield. Based on North Brunswick Street, DFP is now currently run by Kim Willoughby and studio manager Maisie McNeice. Over the last two Dublin OFFSETs we have […]
This Wednesday saw the release of the much anticipated comics collection, INJECTION. We headed down to the the Science Gallery for the launch and also caught up with artist and OFFSET2015 speaker, Declan Shalvey, to discuss the anatomy of a comic book page. SCRIPTS There are some creators who write and draw their own work, but […]