SEE conference & UAO workshop

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Last weekend we were lucky enough to be invited to Turin where Dee spoke in the truly inspiring SEE (serve essere eroi) conference. Dee spoke about her experience in teaching; how she vies to instil a sense of the responsibility and the privilege a graphic designer has in the world, and how they can make real change and not just worry about making things look pretty.

Also inspiring us at the event were:

  • Luigi Bistagnino – systemic design.
  • Andrea from studio LeftLoft in Milan
  • Tilman from Mucho… both gents!
  • Veronica from hey studio (check out their instagram project every hey ..wahey)
  • Ludovico from Slow Food Italia, real nice guy.
  • & Lisa Casali from Ecocucina – an amazing woman leading the charge to waste less food and cook in your dishwasher!

Short video preview here:

The next day we tutored at the UAO Workshop, where in one day, a group of design students and professionals each created their own unique response to the brief:

Food and the City.

Inspired by the amazing array of letterpress faces to play with, gorgeous favini papers along with the awesome screenprinting team Try Again Lab, the results were fantastic! Mick even got stuck in and created a poster.

Here’s another quick video of the workshop briefing:

Oh and of course the results of the poster heroes competition were announced: Congratulations to all 40 designers who were picked. Here’s a video of the selected works:

A huge, huuuuuggge, thanks to everyone in PLUG creativity for organising such a great event. And the team for looking after us so well as well as making these videos..

Ps we stayed in this place via AirBnB, really nice guy with a really nice apartment.

Oh and the pistachio ice-cream…  Mind blown.

Monoprinting

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Monoprinting is a very expressive way to mark make. While working on a very open brief – Shadows – I experimented with some monoprinting using string and corrugated card… I really loved some of the results.

Installation in tiergarten Berlin

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Not sure of the rationale behind this one..!! We really just wanted an excuse to tie lots of bright twine around lovely old tress in a great big park in Berlin! We also made paper aeroplanes and filled plastic eggs with trinkets… its all imagemaking!

What day is it?

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Having always been completely in love with both words (okay talking!) and printmaking… letterpress is ultimate way for me to create a piece. As I do not own (yet!) a Letterpress I very happily went along to the lovely people at the National Print Museum (http://www.nationalprintmuseum.ie/) to learn how to select, set and print my own letterpress creation… it was heaven and I hope to do a lot more!

Brief Exchange #3

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About Brief Exchange:

Brief Exchange is a group graphic design | illustration | photography | art exhibition that invites its participants to compose a brief; to be exchanged with another participant’s brief at random.

The aim of Brief Exchange is to give creative people an opportunity to develop and promote their own work without the limitations often created by clients’ feedback and money. The show also aims to create a network for creative people who might not know each other yet. Brief Exchange has been set up and is curated by Noeleen Doheny.

The first show was printed and ran in two venues, one in Cork and the other in Dublin. The second show is solely exhibited online on the Brief Exchange website and on facebook

Dee’s brief was

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and her response was

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Responding to a brief to create a poster for The Beatles song A Day in The Life I was determined to stay away from the usual psychedelic  look or indeed collage a la Sir Peter Blake. Instead I wanted to respond in a more abstract manner. With ideas initially inspired by the Bjork Biophillia project and the image has been created by photographing patterns formed by the bass vibrations of the song.

Micks brief was

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and his response was ‘An assension of larks mice’

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