Liminal No.3 Eindhoven

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Contents
Foreword by Minister Ged Nash ........................................................................................pg 4
Irish Design, Karen Hennessy ..............................................................................................pg 4
At the threshold, Alex Milton ..................................................................................................pg 6
Creative Collaborations, Louise Allen ..........................................................................pg 8
Animation Ireland .........................................................................................................................pg 10
Aodh ...........................................................................................................................................................pg 14
Knut Klimmek ...................................................................................................................................pg 15
Alex Gufler............................................................................................................................................pg 15
Arckit..........................................................................................................................................................pg 16
Damien Murtagh of Arkit Interview .............................................................................pg 17
Claire Anne O’Brien.....................................................................................................................pg 18
Ceadogán Rugs ..............................................................................................................................pg 19
Claire Anne O’Brien in collaboration with Ceadogán Rugs ...............pg 20
Rothschild & Bickers .................................................................................................................pg 21
Emma Cahill........................................................................................................................................pg 22
Genevieve Howard ......................................................................................................................pg 23
Designgoat .........................................................................................................................................pg 24
Katie Sanderson ...........................................................................................................................pg 25
Designgoat in collaboration with Katie Sanderson ..................................pg 26
Design Partners in collaboration with Seed Labs Inc. - Silvair .......pg 28
Design Partners - Causeway ............................................................................................pg 29
Dolmen ....................................................................................................................................................pg 30
Novaerus................................................................................................................................................pg 31
Dolmen in collaboration with Novareus .................................................................pg 32
Dolmen and Novareus Interviews ................................................................................pg 33
Liminal - Milan...................................................................................................................................pg 34
Liminal - New York .......................................................................................................................pg 36
Love and Robots ............................................................................................................................pg 38
Niamh Lunny ......................................................................................................................................pg 39
Love and Robots in collaboration with Niamh Lunny ...............................pg 40
Love & Robots Interview ........................................................................................................pg 41
Cathal Loughnane........................................................................................................................pg 42
Peter Sheehan .................................................................................................................................pg 43
Cathal Loughnane in collaboration with Peter Sheehan ......................pg 44
Mcor Technologies ......................................................................................................................pg 46
Deirdre McCormack of Mcor Technologies talks about
innovation and the development of the company........................................pg 47
The Salvage Press........................................................................................................................pg 48
The Salvage Press in collaboration with
the Distillers Press and Solaris Tea.............................................................................pg 49
The Souvenir Project .................................................................................................................pg 50
Studio AAD in collaboration with John McLaughlin Architects
The Cabinet of Modern Irish Life ...................................................................................pg 54
Scott Burnett of Studio AAD talks about Irish design and the
development of The Cabinet of Modern Irish Life .......................................pg 57
Think & Son in collaboration with Seymours Irish Biscuits ................pg 58
The Stone Twins .............................................................................................................................pg 62
Derek Wilson......................................................................................................................................pg 63
VFX Association of Ireland...................................................................................................pg 64
Interview with James Morris, Windmill Lane Studios ................................pg 66
Zero-G ......................................................................................................................................................pg 68
Liminal showreel ............................................................................................................................pg 70
Team biographies .........................................................................................................................pg 71
Thanks......................................................................................................................................................pg 72
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Foreword
Irish Design 2015
Ireland’s creativity in areas such as literature, music and art
is world-renowned. But in Ireland we also have many great
businesses producing creative products and services using
excellent internationally competitive and innovative design.
The Irish Government’s ambition is to showcase these worldclass businesses and support them in selling their goods and
services internationally. It is important that we recognise the
difference that good quality design can make to the long term
competitiveness of individual enterprises and the economy as a
whole, and promote this agenda to our greatest advantage.
Bringing Irish design to the world is based on bringing the very
best of design across all disciplines to key international design weeks,
architectural biennales and fashion weeks. The idea of designating
a year to celebrating and promoting Irish design emerged from the
Global Irish Economic Forum in 2013. The Government backed
this proposal, supporting a comprehensive programme of national
and international events and activities throughout 2015.
The aim of Irish Design 2015 (ID2015) is to bring visibility to
Ireland’s dynamic design businesses, supporting them in trading in
competitive foreign markets and ultimately creating jobs at home.
The initiative is being convened by the Design & Crafts Council
of Ireland (DCCoI), in collaboration with partner organisations, on
behalf of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, the
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Enterprise Ireland.
As the flagship exhibition for ID2015, Liminal – Irish design
at the threshold offers a unique platform for showcasing Irish
innovation and creativity to discerning audiences around the
world. The response to this exhibition’s previous outings at
Milan Design Week and WantedDesign in New York highlights
the success of Irish Design 2015 in promoting the breadth
of Ireland’s design talent on the international stage.
The continued evolution of this exhibition throughout the
year which has resulted in new work being unveiled at Dutch
Design Week will be instrumental in positioning design at the
heart of our creative economy and in growing Ireland’s reputation
abroad as a home for innovative design products and services.
Showcasing Irish design to the world is central to all of the events and
activities taking place this year as part of Irish Design 2015 (ID2015).
Through an extensive year-long programme, we are presenting
the work of contemporary Irish designers at major international
design events and through trade missions, developing commercial
opportunities and establishing strategic partnerships for the ongoing
development of this vibrant sector.
As an Irish initiative with global reach, ID2015 offers Irish
designers a unique opportunity to highlight the significant role and
impact that design has in every facet of life, shining a spotlight on
the level of innovation, collaboration and new product development
happening in Ireland right now.
The business model of showcasing Irish creativity through our
flagship exhibition Liminal – Irish design at the threshold is proving
successful in generating real commercial opportunities. The
featured designers have the ambition and capability to expand into
international markets and the experience and industry knowledge
gained from participating in events such as Dutch Design Week will
have lasting benefits for the sector as a whole.
Collaboration with public and private partners both in Ireland and
abroad, for which we are extremely grateful, has been central to the
planning and delivery of the ID2015 programme in order to ensure
a legacy from this year. With continued support and investment in
design and working with our partners, ID2015 has the potential to
act as a catalyst for significant change in Ireland’s competitiveness
in the global marketplace and in creating employment opportunities
over the years to come.
Ged Nash, TD
Minister for Business and Employment
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Karen Hennessy
Chief Executive, Irish Design 2015
Voorwoord
Irish Design 2015
Ierlands creativiteit op gebieden zoals literatuur, muziek en
creativiteit is wereldwijd bekend. Maar in Ierland hebben we ook vele
goede bedrijven die creatieve producten en diensten produceren
met behulp van uitmuntende internationaal concurrerende en
innovatieve vormgeving. Het is de ambitie van de Ierse overheid om
deze topbedrijven in de kijker te plaatsen en ze te ondersteunen
bij het internationaal verkopen van hun goederen en diensten.
Het is belangrijk dat we het verschil erkennen dat hoogwaardige
vormgeving kan maken voor de concurrentievaardigheid op lange
termijn van afzonderlijke bedrijven en de economie als geheel en dat
we deze agenda zo voordelig mogelijk promoten.
We laten de wereld kennismaken met Ierse vormgeving door het
allerbeste van vormgeving over alle disciplines heen te brengen naar
belangrijke internationale designweken, architectonische biënnales
en modeweken. Het idee om een jaar te wijden aan het vieren en
promoten van Ierse vormgeving kwam van het Global Irish Economic
Forum in 2013. De overheid steunde dit voorstel, met ondersteuning
voor een veelomvattend programma van nationale en internationale
evenementen en activiteiten in 2015.
Het doel van Irish Design 2015 (ID2015) is zichtbaarheid geven
aan Ierlands dynamische vormgevingsbedrijven, ze te ondersteunen
bij hun zaken in competitieve buitenlandse markten en uiteindelijk
banen te creëren thuis. Het initiatief is in het leven geroepen door
de Design & Crafts Council van Ierland (DCCoI), in samenwerking
met partnerorganisaties, in naam van het Ierse Ministerie van
Werkgelegenheid, Ondernemingen en Innovatie, het Ministerie van
Buitenlandse Zaken en Trade and Enterprise Ireland.
Als vlaggenschipexpositie voor ID2015 biedt Liminal – Irish
design at the threshold (Ierse vormgeving op de grens) een uniek
platform om Ierse vormgeving en creativiteit te presenteren aan een
opmerkzaam publiek wereldwijd. De reacties op eerdere uitstapjes
van deze expositie naar de Milan Design Week en WantedDesign
in New York onderstrepen het succes van Irish Design 2015 bij het
promoten van de veelzijdigheid van Ierlands vormgevingstalent op
het internationale podium.
De doorlopende ontwikkeling van deze expositie gedurende
het jaar, wat geleid heeft tot het onthullen van nieuw werk tijdens
de Dutch Design Week, zal essentieel zijn bij het positioneren van
vormgeving in het hart van onze creatieve economie en bij het
versterken van Ierlands reputatie in het buitenland als thuis voor
innovatieve vormgevingsproducten en -diensten.
Het presenteren van Ierse vormgeving aan de wereld staat centraal
bij alle evenementen en activiteiten die dit jaar worden gehouden als
onderdeel van Irish Design 2015 (ID2015). Door middel van een jaar
durend programma presenteren wij het werk van hedendaagse Ierse
vormgevers bij belangrijke internationale vormgevingsevenementen,
naast handelsmissies, het ontwikkelen van commerciële kansen en
het opzetten van strategische partnerschappen voor de voortgaande
ontwikkeling van deze levendige branche.
Als Iers initiatief met wereldwijd bereik biedt ID2015 Ierse
vormgevers een unieke kans om de belangrijke rol en impact te
benadrukken die vormgeving heeft in elk aspect van het leven en de
schijnwerpers te richten op het niveau van innovatie, samenwerking
en ontwikkeling van nieuwe producten die momenteel plaatsvindt in
Ierland.
Het bedrijfsmodel van het presenteren van Ierse creativiteit
door middel van onze vlaggenschipexpositie Liminal – Irish design
at the threshold (Ierse vormgeving op de grens) blijkt succesvol
in het genereren van daadwerkelijke commerciële kansen. De
gepresenteerde vormgevers hebben de ambitie en capaciteit
om uit te breiden naar internationale markten en de ervaring en
industriekennis verkregen door deelname aan evenementen zoals de
Dutch Design Week zal blijvende voordelen hebben voor de gehele
branche.
Samenwerking met publieke en particuliere partners in zowel
Ierland als daarbuiten, waarvoor wij zeer dankbaar zijn, is centraal
geweest voor de planning en aflevering van het programma van
ID2015 om voor een nalatenschap te zorgen van dit jaar. Met
doorlopende ondersteuning van en investering in vormgeving en
samenwerking met onze partners heeft ID2015 het potentieel
om een katalysator te zijn voor een grote verandering in de
concurrentievaardigheid van Ierland in de wereldwijde markt en in
het creëren van werkgelegenheid de komende jaren.
Karen Hennessy
Algemeen directeur Irish Design 2015
Ged Nash, TD
Minister van Zaken en Werkgelegenheid
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At the threshold
Ireland is a small island at the edge of Europe with remarkable global reach. There are
an estimated 80 million people worldwide that are of Irish origin, and this connected,
collaborative network creates an influence beyond our size. Irish design has a history
of harnessing creativity, and its practitioners have consistently explored emergent fields,
unbound by disciplinary convention or commercial silos. This has enabled designers to
draw upon their resilience to rebuild and remodel their practices through design thinking
and help drive Ireland’s rapidly expanding creative economy.
With a breadth of disciplines ranging from the tech start-ups of Dublin’s silicon docks,
through to architectural innovation and woven textile manufacture, the Ireland of today tells
a fascinating story of design on the edge and design between the boundaries.
To mark the year of Irish Design 2015 (ID2015) – a major government-backed initiative
seeking to increase the awareness, understanding and use of design in Irish society, and
to promote Irish design capability internationally – Liminal – Irish design at the threshold is
an exhibition presenting a selection of Ireland’s most exciting design thinking and practice.
Working across a variety of disciplines, the exhibiting designers, companies and studios have
been selected for the innovative outlook of their work, its connectivity and ability to transcend
disciplinary boundaries to address the issues of today.
Increasingly, designers across the globe are striving to locate their work within a state
of political, economic and social flux, to find a position where their thinking and practice stays
emergent and fresh, without becoming stylised and fixed. In this sense, contemporary design
offers a provisional exploratory and transitional space laden with unexplored possibilities,
a dynamic state of creativity where work is held in a playful, transformative tension.
Ireland’s creative output has long been framed by literature, music, theatre, filmmaking
and art, yet these represent only a fragment of the breadth of Irish creativity. This flagship
exhibition adds a new chapter to Ireland’s creative story, a tale that has featured iconic figures
such as Eileen Gray and progressive initiatives such as the Kilkenny Design Workshops (the
first government-sponsored design agency in the world, launched in 1963), all built upon a
rich legacy of indigenous craft skills.
This exhibition reveals the potential for the transgressive quality of Irish design in 2015
and beyond. The Irish are innate storytellers, keen to address and resolve the big issues of
today through passionate conversation and debate. As design increasingly seeks to create
holistic experiences and narratives, Ireland is well placed to play a significant role in twentyfirst century design, helping to meet the design challenges of tomorrow. Revelling in its transgeographical, trans-cultural and trans-disciplinary nature, Liminal provides a timely platform
for creative change on the island of Ireland.
Liminal spaces lie between the known and the unknown – transitional spaces of
heightened intensity that we experience when we cross the threshold of what is known.
They are doorways, gateways and pathways between ideas, feelings or disciplines. Taking
the theme of ‘the Liminal’, this exhibition explores the craft of collaboration and presents the
exploratory journeys undertaken by designers. Moving through a series of design venues,
starting in Milan, and traveling to New York, Eindhoven and on to Dublin, the evolving
exhibition narrative plays with the scope of the provisional, the possible and the unexplored
in Irish design.
Tasked with exhibiting new products, experiences or processes, the exhibitors have
created work that resonates across the world but is indicative of the modern Irish design
community. Commissioned projects move between global market and local space, public
use and private value, work and home, commerce and culture to foster creative collaborations
across design disciplines.
Liminal explores the dissolution of disciplinary order and hierarchies, creating a fluid,
malleable domain that enables new design methods and customs to take speculative form.
It stimulates, contextualises and celebrates interdisciplinarity as a particular phenomenon
of emerging design practice in Ireland, curating an open space where design is presented
and reflected upon, and where it can elaborate on the possibilities and processes embedded
in creative collaborations.
The Eindhoven leg of Liminal’s global journey seeks to evoke and capture the mutually
constructed sense of place and the social, cultural and professional relationships that create
Ireland’s distinct design landscape. Exhibition designers John McLaughlin Architects have
created an abstract terrain, into and onto which the specially commissioned projects map
Ireland’s design landmarks, districts (sections of coherence), paths, nodes (points of interest),
and edges (boundaries), creating a curated, cartographic tool for navigating Irish design
today.
Liminal presents a pivotal chapter in Irish design, exploring, identifying and presenting our
creativity, and how our designers, companies and studios are moving across the boundaries
and limits of what design was, into what design can become.
Alex Milton
Programme Director, Irish Design 2015
Liminal Co-curator
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Op de grens
Ierland is een klein eiland aan de rand van Europa met een opmerkelijk wereldwijd bereik.
Er zijn ongeveer 80 miljoen mensen over de gehele wereld met een Ierse herkomst en dit
verbonden, samenwerkende netwerk zorgt voor een invloed die verder reikt dan ons formaat.
Ierse vormgeving heeft een geschiedenis van het benutten van creativiteit. Ierse vormgevers
hebben doorlopend opkomende terreinen verkend, onbegrensd door vakconventies of
commerciële hokjes. Hierdoor hebben vormgevers hun veerkracht kunnen gebruiken om hun
praktijken te herbouwen en opnieuw te vormen door vormgevingsdenkwerk en stuwen ze
Ierlands snel groeiende creatieve economie.
Met een diversiteit aan disciplines van de technologiestart-ups van Dublins Silicon Docks
tot architectonische innovatie en productie van geweven textiel, vertelt het hedendaagse
Ierland een fascinerend verhaal van vormgeving op de rand en vormgeving tussen de grenzen.
Ter gelegenheid van Irish Design 2015 (ID2015) – een belangrijk initiatief gesteund
door de overheid met als doel het vergroten van het bewustzijn, begrip en gebruik
van vormgeving in de Ierse maatschappij, naast het internationaal promoten van Ierse
vormgevingscapaciteiten – wordt Liminal – Irish design at the threshold gehouden, een
expositie die een selectie van Ierlands meest opwindende vormgevingsdenken en -praktijk
presenteert. Uit een reeks disciplines zijn de exposerende vormgevers, bedrijven en studio’s
geselecteerd voor de innovatieve kijk van hun werk, de verbondenheid en het vermogen om
disciplinaire grenzen te overstijgen om hedendaagse problemen aan te pakken.
In toenemende mate streven vormgevers over de gehele wereld ernaar om hun werk
te in een omgeving van politieke, economische en sociale ontwikkelingen te plaatsen, om
een positie te vinden waar hun denken en doen nieuw en fris blijven, zonder gestileerd en
gefixeerd te raken. In deze zin biedt hedendaagse vormgeving een tijdelijke, verkennende
overgangsruimte, beladen met onontdekte mogelijkheden, een dynamische toestand van
creativiteit waarin werk speels en transformerend is.
Ierlands creatieve output heeft zich lang beperkt tot literatuur, muziek, theater, film
en kunst, maar deze zijn slechts een klein deel van de diversiteit van Ierse creativiteit.
Deze vlaggenschiptentoonstelling voegt een nieuw hoofdstuk toe aan Ierlands creatieve
geschiedenis, een verhaal met iconische figuren als Eileen Gray en progressieve initiatieven
zoals de Kilkenny Design Workshops (het eerste door de overheid gesteunde ontwerpbureau
ter wereld, opgericht in 1963), gebouwd op een reik verleden van autochtoon vakmanschap.
Deze expositie onthult het potentieel van de grensoverschrijdende kwaliteit van Ierse
vormgeving in 2015 en verder. De Ieren zijn geboren vertellers en willen graag de grote
hedendaagse problemen oplossen door passievolle gesprekken en discussie. Nu vormgeving
steeds vaker probeert holistische ervaringen en verhalen te creëren, heeft Ierland een goede
uitgangspositie om een significante rol te spelen in vormgeving in de eenentwintigste eeuw
en te helpen toekomstige vormgevingsuitdagingen aan te gaan. Met zijn transgeografische,
transculturele en transdisciplinaire aard biedt Liminal een opportuun platform voor creatieve
verandering op het Ierse eiland.
Tussen het bekende en het onbekende bevinden zich Liminale ruimtes – overgankelijke
ruimtes met een verhoogde intensiteit die wij ervaren wanneer wij de grens van het bekende
overschrijden. Er zijn deuren, poorten en paden tussen ideeën, gevoelens of disciplines.
Met het thema van ‘het Liminale’ verkent deze expositie de kunst van het samenwerken en
presenteert de ontdekkingsreizen die vormgevers ondernemen. Door middel van een reeks
vormgevingsevenementen, beginnende in Milaan, via New York en Eindhoven naar Dublin,
speelt de zich ontwikkelende expositie met het kader van het tijdelijke, het mogelijke en het
onontdekte in Ierse vormgeving.
Met als taak nieuwe producten, ervaringen of processen te tonen, hebben de exposanten
werken gecreëerd die wereldwijd weerklank vinden, maar kenmerkend zijn van de moderne
Ierse vormgevingsgemeenschap. Projecten in opdracht wisselen tussen de wereldwijde
markt en lokale ruimte, publiek gebruik en particuliere waarde, werk en thuis, handel en
cultuur, om creatieve samenwerkingen over vormgevingsdisciplines heen te bewerkstelligen.
Liminal verkent de verdwijning van disciplinaire orde en hiërarchieën, waardoor een
vloeibaar, smeedbaar domein wordt gecreëerd waarin nieuwe vormgevingsmethoden en
gebruiken een speculatieve vorm kunnen aannemen. Het stimuleert, geeft context aan en
viert interdisciplinariteit als specifiek fenomeen van opkomende vormgevingspraktijken in
Ierland. Het beheert een open ruimte, waar vormgeving wordt gepresenteerd en bestudeerd
en waar het kan uitweiden over de mogelijkheden en processen die onderdeel uitmaken van
creatieve samenwerkingen.
Het Eindhovense deel van de wereldwijde rondreis van Liminal streeft ernaar
het wederzijds geconstrueerde gevoel van plaats op te wekken en vast te leggen,
naast de sociale, culturele en professionele relaties die Ierlands onderscheidende
vormgevingslandschap hebben gecreëerd. De exposerende vormgevers John McLaughlin
Architects hebben een abstract terrein gecreëerd, waarin en waarop de speciale projecten
Ierlands vormgevingsmijlpalen, districten (samenhangende onderdelen), paden, knooppunten
(interessante punten) en randen (grenzen) in kaart worden gebracht, waardoor een
geactualiseerd cartografisch hulpmiddel wordt gecreëerd om door de hedendaagse Ierse
vormgeving te navigeren.
Liminal presenteert een cruciaal hoofdstuk in Ierse vormgeving en verkent, identificeert
en presenteert onze creativiteit en hoe onze vormgevers, bedrijven en studio’s de grenzen en
limieten overschrijden van wat vormgeving was, naar wat vormgeving kan worden.
Alex Milton
Programme Director, Irish Design 2015
Liminal Co-curator
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Creative Collaborations
The opportunity to juxtapose a diverse range of skills, materials,
references and perspectives to enrich the design process and to
trace their evolution over a period of time is an engaging proposition.
Liminal provides the impetus and space for a series of design-led
collaborative relationships to emerge during Irish Design 2015.
By its nature, collaboration demands a level of trust and openness:
there can be unknowns, surprises and unintended outcomes. We
have selected and invited designers to work together with a purpose
and a collective determination to create a narrative between their
own creative process and one that is influenced by parameters of
partnership, time and material.
Liminal intentionally sets out to challenge the norm, to present
work that asks questions of design week audiences, and invites
them into a collaborative conversation. The first iteration of Liminal,
exhibited in Milan and New York, focused on collaborations between
furniture, textile and interior-related product. It is fitting that the
nature and scope of collaborations for Dutch Design Week extend
significantly beyond this to include future-focused speculative works
intended to be experimental in nature along with those that integrate
technology and digital media. The projects vary significantly in their
context, purpose and ambition.
Some such as ‘Kelp’, a collaboration between Designgoat and
chef Katie Sanderson, are playful interventions that literally offer
a ‘taste of Irish design’, with seaweed cured trout presented as a
starter course served in specially designed vessels. The centrality of
food in Irish hospitality plays an important role in Liminal and has led
to collaborations between Think & Son (designer Annie Atkins and
writer Eoghan Nolan) and Seymours Irish Biscuits. The biscuit offers
something sweet and is designed to narrate whimsical stories from
Irish culture and tell some tall tales from our not-too-distant past. In
Ireland, an accompanying cup of tea is a prerequisite, which is why
Jamie Murphy was commissioned to collaborate with Solaris Tea to
develop uniquely designed packaging.
As Liminal moves across continents, the connection to landscape
and topography dominate. Design Partners’ ‘Causeway’ is an
intersection of artefact and experience, a bespoke creation for
ID2015 representing a design island connecting to the rest of the
world. Each corner of ‘Causeway’ controls a beautiful animation
that travels along a faceted topographical surface. Only by pressing
combinations of corners does ‘Causeway’ really come to life,
encouraging interaction, play and discovery between people across
this landscape. Navigating Ireland’s journey from the past to the
present day is reflected by the work of Zero-G who took Ireland’s
1937 constitution as the starting point for their project. Over a period
of months, Zero-G has mapped the evolution of Ireland’s legislative,
judicial, executive and local governmental structures to create a
nuanced and layered infographic that conveys complex data in a
single view.
Moving from topography to the built environment, Damien
Murtagh’s ‘Arckit’ is a groundbreaking, scaled, freeform modelling
system. It allows architects to physically explore designs and bring
their projects to life with speed and precision. ‘Arckit’ is based on
modern building techniques and a 1.2m grid to scale, consisting of
a series of interconnecting components that enable vast building
possibilities. At DDW, an interactive space will allow budding
architects as young as 12 years of age to build amazing physical
models with a professional design tool.
The reality of 3D printing becoming mainstream and accessible
to all is part of the vision of Ireland’s Mcor Technologies. Mcor are
an innovative manufacturer of the world’s most affordable, fullcolour, eco-friendly 3D printers, the only 3D printers to use ordinary
business-A4/letter paper as the build material. For DDW, we issued
an open call to designers and creatives working across the spectrum
of design, research and interdisciplinary sectors to explore the
potential of Mcor’s unique 3D print technology. One of Mcor’s Iris 3D
HD printers will be onsite throughout Dutch Design Week.
The collaboration between innovative design platform Love
and Robots and costume designer Niamh Lunny led to the creation
of ‘Plumage’, described as an exploration of patterns in fabric such
as knit and lace, as well as 3-dimensional structures, surfaces, and
natural phenomena. The Plumage cape extends those explorations to
construct a piece of clothing that is 3D printed in one piece, without
any assembly required, and includes over 5,000 moving component
parts.
Operating in the world of cutting edge technology, Novaerus,
developers of ‘airborne pathogen control technology’, will ensure that
Liminal has the cleanest air in Klokegbouw. Novaerus, who are working
with innovative Irish design consultancy Dolmen on the development
of their product range, will be tracking and annihilating pathogens and
viruses in real time.
Narrative and story telling is deeply embedded in Irish design,
culture and psyche. Over the past two decades the Irish animation
sector has grown in strength with companies such as Cartoon Saloon,
nominated for two Oscars for The Secret of Kells and Song of the
Sea, productions that animate stories from Celtic mythology to mass
appeal. In Eindhoven, we will show the work of a number of award
winning animation studios. Meanwhile, the explosion of CGI and VFX
has led to the expansion of Irish film production companies. At DDW,
we go behind the scenes showing detailed breakdowns of CGIs on
some of the biggest blockbuster movies across the globe.
Moving from the digital world back to the physical, The Souvenir
Project, commissioned by ID2015, showcases the extraordinary
creative talent and quality of materials and making within Ireland.
Souvenirs are a symbolic reminder of experience, location and culture,
and this collection of authentic Irish products, designed and made in
Ireland, provides visitors with a means of taking home the very best
of Irish design. Ireland’s material heritage is strongly referenced in
the work of Claire Anne O’Brien. It draws on traditional techniques
such as weaving, knotting and basketry to make playful investigations
into structure and form using the unique properties of knit. Her
collaboration with Ceadogán Rugs utilises the height and depth of pile
to create a relief pattern that mimics a structured weave.
Peter Sheehan and Cathal Loughnane are launching ‘The Pilgrim
Chair’ which has evolved as a next step following their collaboration
on ‘The History Chair’. Working with craftsman Ryan Connolly they
pared back the design language of the History chair to realise a new
chair with a similar presence but with the emphasis on silhouette and
simplicity.
The ‘Lann table’, designed by Knut Klimmek and the Aran armchair
designed by Italian Alex Gulfer, is the result of a collaboration with
Garrett O’Hagan, and forms part of the recently launched ‘Aodh’
collection of furniture representing pure, refined reductive design with
sleek linear profiles.
The ‘Mineral pendants’ by Rothschild and Bickers appear like a
series of planets suspended in space. Created in response to the
growing trend for using organic materials, these pendants house a new
technology developed by Seed labs Inc., who work closely with Design
Partners. The technology, ‘Silvair’, allows for a new type of haptic
intuitive interface that controls our ambient environment.
From the ambient environment to the domestic interior, Studio
Aad in collaboration with John McLaughlin Architects present ‘The
Cabinet of Modern Irish Life’. The cabinet, or dresser, has long been the
backdrop to Irish life. Taking pride of place in the home, it facilitated
a mixture of specific and general functions. The Cabinet of Modern
Irish Life has been curated by Studio Aad to provide a window into
contemporary Irish life and the design that binds it together.
Creative collaboration is a permanent work in progress. It is
a collective process made and remade, revised and reiterated,
reinterpreted and reimagined. Liminal is a laboratory to reveal this
evolutionary process, presenting, archiving and transforming new
design processes and products at a series of public events at design
fairs across the globe.
We welcome your contributions to this journey.
Louise Allen
Head of International Programmes, Irish Design 2015
Liminal Co-curator
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Creatieve samenwerkingen
De gelegenheid om een diverse reeks vaardigheden, materialen,
referenties en perspectieven naast elkaar te plaatsen om het
vormgevingsproces te verrijken en hun ontwikkeling in de loop der
tijd te volgen is een uitnodigend voorstel. Liminal biedt de prikkel en
de ruimte om een reeks samenwerkingen omtrent vormgeving te
doen ontstaan tijdens Irish Design 2015. Vanwege zijn aard vraagt
samenwerking om een zekere mate van vertrouwen en openheid: er
kunnen onzekerheden, verrassingen en onbedoelde uitkomsten zijn. We
hebben vormgevers geselecteerd en uitgenodigd om samen te werken
met een doel en een gezamenlijke vastberadenheid om een verhaal
te creëren tussen hun eigen creatieve processen en een die wordt
beïnvloed door de parameters van partnerschap, tijd en materialen.
Liminal stuurt er bewust op aan om de norm uit te dagen, om werk
te presenteren dat vragen stelt aan het publiek en ze uitnodigt tot
gezamenlijke discussie. De eerste uitvoering van Liminal, geëxposeerd
in Milaan en New York, richtte zich op samenwerkingen tussen
meubilair, textiel en interieurgerelateerde producten. Het is passend
dat de aard en reikwijdte van de samenwerkingen voor de Dutch
Design Week zich veel verder uitstrekken dan dat tot toekomstgerichte
speculatieve werken van een bewust experimentele aard, naast
samenwerkingen die technologie en digitale media integreren.
De projecten verschillen sterk in hun context, doel en ambitie.
Sommige, zoals ‘Kelp’, een samenwerking tussen Designgoat en
chef-kok Katie Sanderson, zijn speelse tussenkomsten die letterlijk een
‘proefje van Ierse vormgeving’ bieden, met forel behandeld met zeewier
als voorafje, geserveerd in speciaal ontworpen schalen. De centrale plaats
van voedsel in de Ierse gastvrijheid speelt een belangrijke rol in Liminal
en heeft geleid tot samenwerkingen tussen Think & Son (vormgever
Annie Atkins en schrijver Eoghan Nolan) en Seymours Irish Biscuits. De
biscuit biedt iets zoets en is ontworpen om grappige verhalen uit de
Ierse cultuur en sterke verhalen uit het niet zo verre verleden te vertellen.
In Ierland is een bijbehorend kopje thee een vereiste, wat de reden is
waarom Jamie Murphy in opdracht een samenwerking is aangegaan
met Solaris Tea om uniek vormgegeven verpakkingen te ontwikkelen.
Daar Liminal zich over de continenten heen beweegt, domineert
de verbinding met het landschap en de topografie. ‘Causeway’ van
Design Partners is een kruising tussen een artefact en een ervaring,
een creatie in opdracht voor ID2015 die een vormgevingseiland
representeert dat verbinding maakt met de rest van de wereld.
Iedere hoek van ‘Causeway’ bestuurt een prachtige animatie
die over een veelzijdig topografisch oppervlak reist. Slechts door
combinaties van hoeken in te drukken komt ‘Causeway’ echt tot leven
en moedigt interactie, speelsheid en ontdekking aan tussen mensen
in dit landschap. Ierlands reis vanuit het verleden naar de toekomst
wordt weerspiegeld in het werk van Zero-G dat Ierlands grondwet van
1937 als uitgangspunt hebben genomen voor hun project. Gedurende
meerdere maanden heeft Zero-G de ontwikkeling van Ierlands
wetgevende, rechterlijke, bestuurlijke en lokale overheidsstructuren
in kaart gebracht om een genuanceerde, gelaagde infographic te
creëren die complexe gegevens overbrengt in één overzicht.
Om van topografie naar de bebouwde omgeving te gaan; ‘Arckit’
van Damien Murtagh is een baanbrekend, schaalbaar, vrijevorm
modeleringssysteem. Hiermee kunnen architecten fysiek ontwerpen
verkennen en hun projecten snel en nauwkeurig tot leven brengen. ‘Arckit’
is gebaseerd op moderne bouwtechnieken en een 1,2 meter rooster
op schaal, bestaande uit een reeks samenhangende componenten die
eindeloze bouwmogelijkheden creëren. Bij DDW laat een interactieve
ruimte ontluikende architecten vanaf 12 jaar fantastische fysieke
modellen bouwen met een professionele vormgevingstool.
De realiteit waarin 3D-printen mainstream is en toegankelijk voor
iedereen maakt onderdeel uit van de visie van Mcor Technologies
uit Ierland. Mcor is een innovatieve fabrikant van ’s werelds meest
betaalbare full colour, milieuvriendelijke 3D-printers, de enige die
gewoon A4- en Letter-papier gebruiken als constructiemateriaal.
Voor DDW hebben we een open oproep gedaan aan vormgevers en
creatieve personen in het gehele spectrum van vormgeving, onderzoek
en interdisciplinaire sectoren om het potentieel van Mcors unieke
3D-printtechnologie te onderzoeken. Een van Mcors Iris 3D-HDprinters zal gedurende de Dutch Design Week aanwezig zijn.
De samenwerking tussen het innovatie vormgevingsplatform Love
and Robots en kostuumontwerper Niamh Lunny heeft geleid tot de
creatie van ‘Plumage’, wat wordt omgeschreven als een verkenning van
patronen in stoffen zoals brei- en kantwerk, naast driedimensionale
structuren, oppervlakken en natuurlijke fenomenen. De Plumage
Cape breidt die verkenningen uit om een kledingstuk te creëren
dat als één geheel wordt 3D-geprint, zonder dat er verdere
constructie nodig is, met meer dan 5000 bewegende onderdelen.
Novaerus, ontwikkelaar van ‘technologie voor bestrijding
van ziekteverwekkers in de lucht’, opererend in de wereld
van baanbrekende technologie, zorgt ervoor dat Liminal
de schoonste lucht in het Klokgebouw heeft. Novaerus,
dat samenwerkt met het innovatieve Ierse ontwerpbureau
Dolmen aan de ontwikkeling van hun productassortiment, zal
in real-time ziekteverwekkers opsporen en uitschakelen.
Verhalen en vertellen is diep geworteld in de Ierse vormgeving,
cultuur en geest. De afgelopen twee decennia is de Ierse
animatiesector sterker geworden met bedrijven zoals Cartoon
Saloon, genomineerd voor twee Oscars voor The Secret of Kells
en Song of the Sea, producties die verhalen uit de Keltische
mythologie animeren voor het brede publiek. In Eindhoven tonen
we het werk van een aantal prijswinnende animatiestudio’s.
Ondertussen heeft de explosie van CGI en VFX geleid tot de
uitbreiding van Ierse filmproductiebedrijven. Bij DDW gaan we
achter de schermen en laten we gedetailleerde uitwerkingen zien
van CGI in enkele van de grootste blockbusterfilms wereldwijd.
Om van de digitale wereld weer terug te gaan naar de
fysieke; het Souvenir-project, in opdracht van ID2015, toont het
buitengewone creatieve talent en de kwaliteit van materialen
en vakmanschap in Ierland. Souvenirs zijn een symbolische
herinnering aan een ervaring, locatie en cultuur. Deze verzameling
authentieke Ierse producten, ontworpen en vervaardigd in Ierland,
laten bezoekers het beste van Ierse vormgeving mee naar huis
nemen. Ierlands materiële erfenis is sterk aanwezig in het werk
van Claire Anne O’Brien. Het maakt gebruik van traditionele
technieken als weven, knopen en mandvlechten voor speels
onderzoek naar structuur en vorm, gebruikmakend van de unieke
eigenschappen van breiwerk. In haar samenwerking met Ceadogán
Rugs wordt gebruikgemaakt van de poolhoogte en -diepte om een
reliëfpatroon te creëren dat een gestructureerd weefsel nabootst.
Peter Sheehan en Cathal Loughnane lanceren de
‘Pilgrim Chair’, welke is ontwikkeld als volgende stap,
volgend op hun samenwerking aan de ‘History Chair’. In
samenwerking met ambachtsman Ryan Connolly hebben
ze de vormgevingstaal van de History Chair uitgekleed
om een nieuwe stoel te creëren met een vergelijkbare
uitstraling, maar met een nadruk op silhouet en eenvoud.
De ‘Lann Table’, ontworpen door Knut Klimmek, en de Aran
stoel, ontworpen door de Italiaan Alex Gulfer, is het resultaat van
een samenwerking met Garrett O’Hagan en maakt deel uit van de
recent gelanceerde ‘Aodh’-meubelcollectie, welke pure, verfijnde,
reductieve vormgeving met slanke, lineaire profielen representeert.
De ‘Mineral pendants’ van Rothschild en Bickers lijken een
serie planeten die in de ruimte hangen. Gemaakt als reactie op
de toenemende trend om organische materialen te gebruiken,
ontwikkeld door Seed labs Inc., dat nauw samenwerkt met Design
Partners. De technologie, ‘Silvair’, maakt een nieuw type haptische,
intuïtieve interface mogelijk die ons omgevingsmilieu regelt.
Om van het omgevingsmilieu naar huishoudelijk interieur te
gaan; Studio Aad presenteert in samenwerking met John McLaughlin
Architects het ‘Cabinet of Modern Irish Life’. Het kabinet of dressoir
is lang de achtergrond geweest voor het leven in Ierland. Met
een trotse plaats in het huis faciliteerde het een mengsel van
specifieke en algemene functies. Het Cabinet of Modern Irish Life
is samengesteld door Studio Aad om een blik te bieden op het
hedendaagse Ierse leven en de vormgeving die het samenbindt.
Creatieve samenwerking is een permanent werk in
uitvoering. Het is een gezamenlijk proces dat wordt gemaakt
en hermaakt, herzien en hervormd, geherinterpreteerd en
herbedacht. Liminal is een laboratorium om dit evolutionaire
proces te onthullen, waarbij nieuwe vormgevingsprocessen
en producten worden gepresenteerd, gearchiveerd en
getransformeerd tijdens een reeks publieke evenementen
op vormgevingsbeurzen over de gehele wereld.
Wij verwelkomen uw bijdragen aan deze reis.
Louise Allen
Head of International Programmes, Irish Design 2015
Liminal Co-curator
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Animation Ireland
Animation Ireland is a group of leading Irish
animation companies working together to
promote Ireland’s world class animation
sector internationally. With millions of
children around the world watching Irish
produced animations each week, Ireland
is a recognised leader with talented and
technically sophisticated 2D and 3D studios
creating and producing content for TV, film,
games, mobile and apps. The Irish animation
industry has experienced substantial growth
over the past five years emerging as a central
component of Ireland’s digital and creative
economy. Award winning Irish studios
employ 1,000+ technical and creative staff.
animationireland.com
Animation Ireland is een groep
toonaangevende Ierse animatiebedrijven die
samenwerken om Ierlands animatiesector
van wereldklasse wereldwijd te
promoten. Met miljoenen kinderen over
de gehele wereld die elke week in Ierland
geproduceerde animatieprogramma’s
kijken, is Ierland een erkende leider met
getalenteerde en technisch geavanceerde
2D- en 3D-studio’s die content creëren
en produceren voor tv, film, games, mobiel
en apps. De Ierse animatie-industrie is de
afgelopen vijf jaar sterk gegroeid en heeft
zich ontwikkeld tot centraal onderdeel van
Ierlands digitale en creatieve economie.
Prijswinnende Ierse studio’s hebben
meer dan 1000 technische en creatieve
medewerkers.
Deadly by Kavaleer
A Man & Ink
Barley Films
Blacknorth Studio
Boulder Media
A Man & Ink have been working hard for the
past ten years producing animation both
independently and in collaboration with
other companies across shorts, TV series
and features. For themselves, they made
the shorts Scarecrow, Miss Remarkable
& Her Career — with Lisbet Gabrielsson
AB (Sweden) and Bullitt Film (Denmark),
winner of the Fipresci Award at the Annecy
International Animation Festival — and
The Neighbours — a co-production with
ithinkasia (Cambodia) that is currently
touring festivals — and the mini-series The
Variety Show. And with others: the series
Ish’hafan (Freakish Kid, Hungary) and Joe
& Jack (Dancing Girl Productions, Ireland);
and the feature films The Secret of Kells and
Song of the Sea (both with Cartoon Saloon,
Ireland). They are also currently working on a
short called A Stitch in Time.
Barley Films are passionate about diversity.
The company has produced nine animated
shorts since 2002 using CGI, cut-out, digital
and hand-drawn techniques. Their work
has screened at over 300 festivals in 39
countries. The Barley Films crew has always
had an international flavour, with artists from
Ireland, Canada, the UK, France, Sweden,
South Korea, Lithuania and Italy all working
at their Dublin studio. They are also proud
that four of their films have been directed
by talented women. The company plans to
produce a trilogy of animated features in
Ireland over the next five years. The first of
these is their principal development project
from the last few years, Little Caribou.
Blacknorth Studio was incorporated in
2009 and started strong with its first BBC
commission ‘Living with Alcohol’ winning
BAFTA: Best Factual Programme (Winner,
2010). Blacknorth was quick to realise
its creative strength within the animation
industry. They provide an animation service
to producers working with serious
content, stories with sensitive subject
matter that can reach specific audiences.
In 2012, ‘My Autism and me’ won an
Emmy, an RTS in the for Craft and Design
category, and Blacknorth were nominated
for a BAFTA for this and ‘Hardtimes’.
Blacknorth has shaped itself into
Northern Ireland’s finest and most
stimulating digital media company
by maintaining a mature and robust
pipeline, providing a reliable and high-end
service in both animation and VFX whilst
generating in-house intellectual property.
Boulder Media have been making highend 2D and 3D animation for international
markets at their Dublin studio since 2000,
producing shows like the Emmy award–
winning Foster’s Home for Imaginary
Friends, El Tigre, and the BAFTA, Annie and
Emmy award–winning The Amazing World
of Gumball for Cartoon Network. They have
already completed season one of Disney
XDs flagship show Randy Cunningham:
9th Grade Ninja and also produced the
first feature-length Lalaloopsy DVD for toy
manufacturers MGA. Other high-profile
clients include Nickelodeon and ABC.
barleyfilms.net
amanandink.com
blacknorth.tv
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bouldermedia.tv
Animation Ireland
Brown Bag Films
Caboom
Cartoon Saloon
Dancing Girl Productions
Brown Bag Films is one of Europe’s most
successful creative-led animation studios.
Celebrating twenty years in business, their
Dublin-based headquarters have produced
cutting-edge animation for the international
market since 1994, bagging numerous
awards along the way. These include
Oscar nominations for Give Up Yer Aul Sins
(2002) and Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping
Beauty (2010), three Emmy® awards for
Peter Rabbit (2014), and a host of BAFTA,
Emmy, IFTA and Annie nominations for their
hit shows Octonauts, Doc McStuffins and
Henry Hugglemonster. Brown Bag Films are
committed to producing the highest quality
cross-platform animation with strong stories
and engaging characters. Founded and
managed by animators Cathal Gaffney and
Darragh O’Connell, Brown Bag Films is one
of Ireland’s business success stories, now
employing over 160 full-time staff.
Caboom is a multi-disciplinary production
company based in Dublin and LA. Working
in live-action, puppetry and animation, the
company draws on more than 20 years’
experience to produce award-winning
content for creatively ambitious clients.
Caboom’s work is broad and varied, from
animation series for the web to liveaction commercials; animated content for
apps and games to live-action comedy
series. Clients include Disney, TBS, RTÉ,
CBBC, BBC, Fox, Warners, American
Greetings, Mattel and the Jim Henson
Company. The company is best known
for its puppet series Special 1 TV, which
has aired internationally on TV and online
and has earned the company a YouTube
partnership for its unique use of social
media to build and engage an audience.
The Academy Award nominated animation
studio Cartoon Saloon was set up in 1999 by
Tomm Moore, Paul Young and Nora Twomey.
With award-winning short films such as
From Darkness, Cúilín Dualach/Backwards
Boy, Old Fangs and The Ledge End of Phil
(from accounting) to TV series like Skunk
Fu! (broadcast in over 120 territories) and
Puffin Rock (due for broadcast with Nick Jr
UK in 2015), Cartoon Saloon has carved a
special place in the international animation
industry. In 2015 the studio received an
Oscar nomination for the animated feature
Song of the Sea following on from The Secret
of Kells which was nominated for an award
in 2010. Cartoon Saloon has also created an
animated segment for The Prophet, a feature
produced by Salma Hayek, released in 2014.
Dancing Girl Productions was established
by veteran animation and live-action
producers Maeve McAdam and Villi
Ragnarsson and has offices in the
Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Because of this, the company is in a unique
position to source funding. Dancing Girl
Productions is focused on developing and
producing long-running animation series
and live-action projects for the domestic
and international film and TV markets.
animationireland.com/dancinggirl.htm
cartoonsaloon.ie
caboom.ie
brownbagfilms.com
Here To Fall by Blacknorth Studio
Double Z Enterprises
Geronimo Productions
Giant Animation Studios
Ink and Light
Double Z Enterprises is a multi-award
winning television production company
established in 1987. Double Z has provided
both UK and Irish television with much-loved
comedy shows and puppet characters for
adult and children’s programming, including
Zig & Zag, Dustin the Turkey and Podge &
Rodge. Double Z Enterprises has produced
original comedy-based programming for
all the major broadcasters in Britain and
Ireland, including RTÉ, BBC, ITV, Channel 4
and MTV. Along with television production,
Double Z have extensive experience
in licensing. For over twenty years the
company has produced merchandising
and marketing campaigns for their
characters in Ireland, the UK and Europe.
Geronimo Productions was awarded
Producer of the Year at Cartoon Forum 2011.
The studio offers a full range of animation
services from development and across full
production. In co-production scenarios, they
can raise finance and invest 50 per cent of
the budget, depending on work split. The
following are recently completed projects:
Roobarb & Custard Too, Fluffy Gardens,
Fluffy Gardens Xmas Special, Ballybraddan,
Punky and Planet Cosmo.
Giant Animation Studios is an innovative
Dublin-based company that is dedicated
to the development and production of
premium animated content for all platforms.
The studio’s focus is on creating its own
properties for the entertainment industry,
as well as providing animation and design
solutions for some of the leading production
houses and agencies in Europe. The
company has been nominated for an Irish
Film and Television Award, selected for
competition in Annecy 2012 and has also
won two consecutive Digital Media Awards
for Best Animation, in 2012 and 2013.
Ink and Light develops and produces
original television series and feature films.
Established in 2011 by Tamsin Lyons
and Leevi Lemmetty, the company has
bases in Dublin and Helsinki. They work
predominantly with CG animation but love
exploring whatever form fits to tell a great
story. Ink and Light’s previous work has been
screened by RTÉ, MTV, Channel 4 and YLE,
and at festivals such as Annecy, Sundance
and Toronto. Alongside developing their own
material, they are also interested in coproducing feature films and animation series
for domestic and international distribution.
giant.ie
ink-and-light.com
geronimoproductions.tumblr.com
dze.ie
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Animation Ireland
JAM Media
Kavaleer Productions
Keg Kartoonz
Lovely Productions
Since JAM Media’s inception in 2002,
founders John Rice, Alan Shannon and
Mark Cumberton have developed and
created a number of awardwinning TV
series. They continually strive for immersive
stories, engaging characters and quality
animations in all of their productions. The
company opened a new office in Belfast
in April 2013. Their CBBC series Roy won
the BAFTA for Best Children’s Drama in
2012, adding to its BAFTA nominations for
Best Drama and Best Writer in 2010. Roy
has also won a Royal Television Society
Award and the Trickfilm Festival (Stuttgart)
award for best animated TV series for kids.
JAM Media won Producer of the Year at the
Cartoon Forum in Toulouse in 2012, and
in April 2014, their series Tilly and Friends
picked up an IFTA for best animation.
Kavaleer Productions is one of Ireland’s
foremost animation studios, that
produces high-end television series
and commercials, as well as digital
and interactive content for e-learning
platforms, games and online media
The studio won Best Animation and
the Grand Prix at the 2010 Digital Media
Awards for their acclaimed short film Hasan
Everywhere which was also nominated for
an Irish Film and Television Award. They have
also produced more than 200 episodes of
television including Lifeboat Luke, Garth and
Bev, Abadas and their recently completed IP
Wildernuts. They are currently in production
on Boj, which will air on CBeebies, RTÉ Jr.
and PBS Sprout later this year.
Kavaleer have several projects in
development including Tipto, which was
presented at Cartoon Forum in Toulouse and
Kira Khan Do!, their latest entry in the world
of preschool animation.
Keg Kartoonz is a Dublin-based animation
studio run by Michael Algar (producer)
and Noel Kelly (creative director). Both
Michael and Noel have worked in the
animation business since the time when
studios used pencils and paper. Over their
careers they’ve each worked for many
different studios around the world, but
nowadays they concentrate on developing
and producing Keg’s own projects. The
most recent project to be completed at
Keg Kartoonz is a 90-minute animation/
liveaction special of of comedian
Brendan Grace’s character, Bottler.
Lovely Productions was formed in 2004
and is run and owned by Lorcan Finnegan
and Brunella Cocchiglia. They have made
a number of highly acclaimed shorts, music
videos and films as well as having won
numerous awards. Lorcan is represented
for commercials by Butter in Ireland and
Independent Talent in London for films.
They are currently in post-production on
their first live action feature film “Without
Name”, funded under the Irish Film Board
Catalyst scheme.
jammedia.com
lovelyproductions.com
kegkartoonz.com
kavaleer.com
Song of the Sea by
Cartoon Saloon
Magpie 6 Media
Moetion Films
Monster Entertainment
Paper Dreams
Magpie 6 Media is a Dublin-based studio
set up in 2008 by husband-and-wife team
Clifford Parrott and Christina O’Shea. Both
worked in animation in Los Angeles for many
years before coming to Ireland. Cliff is an
award-winning animator, having produced
animation for notable clients such as Adam
Sandler. Magpie 6 Media has worked on
animation projects for Disney and ESPN,
among others, and creates its own in-house
animated and live-action properties. In 2013
the studio’s international co-production,
The Travels of the Young Marco Polo, was
broadcast in Ireland, Germany and Canada.
The studio is currently wrapping production
on the animated preschool series Inis
Spraoi, for broadcast on RTÉ this year.
Moetion Films is a newly formed production
company producing and developing
animated feature films and TV series for
international distribution. Working with a
highly creative network of writers, animators,
actors and directors, the team is a longtime co-producer with companies such as
AFilm Productions, Anima Vitae and Ulysses
Filmproduktion. Producer and owner Moe
Honan recently co-produced the animated
feature films Legends of Valhalla – Thor,
Niko 2 – Little Brother Big Trouble and
previously Niko and the Way to the Stars.
Other TV credits include: The Ugly Duckling
and Me, Lilly the Witch, The Fairytaler,
The World of Tosh and Norman Normal.
Monster Entertainment is a brand
management company with activities
encompassing distribution, finance and
production of TV programmes. In business
for over fifteen years, Monster has a wide and
varied catalogue, sourcing award-winning
programming from all over the world and
selling into more than 200 countries. Its
catalogue includes animation series from
preschool up to teens and adults including
Oscar-winning, Oscar-nominated and
Emmy winning animation programming. The
company now has an in-house animation
studio and is currently co-producing the
animated series Inis Spraoi/Rockabye
Island. It has also completed a four-country
co-production of The Travels of the Young
Marco Polo with Magpie 6 Media, having
recently produced preschool series I’m
a Monster and I’m a Creepy Crawly.
Paper Dreams is an award-winning Irish
production company run by Michael Lennon
and Heidi Karin Madsen that develops
and produces feature films and animated
television series. Paper Dreams’s most
recent production was Earthbound, a sci-fi
rom-com feature film written and directed
by Alan Brennan. Currently Paper Dreams
is producing an animated Christmas
special called The Overcoat, based on the
short story by Nikolai Gogol and adapted
by Hugh O’Conor. The Overcoat will be a
co-production with Slugger Film (Sweden)
and A Film (Estonia). Paper Dreams is also
developing a number of children’s animated
television series for both the international
and domestic markets, and is actively
seeking coproduction opportunities.
moetionfilms.com
magpie6media.com
monsterentertainment.tv
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paperdreamsproductions.com
Animation Ireland
Pink Kong Studios
Prickly Pear Productions
Still Films
Studio POWWOW
Pink Kong Studios is Ireland’s first all female
led animation studio, co-founded in 2014 by
creative director Aoife Doyle and producer
Niamh Herrity. Since its inception, Pink
Kong has championed the idea that there
is room in the market for female actionadventure properties. As such, Pink Kong
looks to generate engaging content for girls.
An award winning animation studio based
out of Dublin who “bring stories to life”, Pink
Kong stories and characters are developed
in a unique manner, with multiplatform
interactivity in mind, developing stories
where the end user becomes part of
the story evolution. Pink Kong Studios
creates branded entertainment for
TV, film and interactive platforms.
The studio is currently in development
with their property “Rova-Novas: An
Elite Team who are the protectors of
earth’s puppies”, and have hit market
places and international conferences
with the trailer and proof of concept.
Prickly Pear Productions is an awardwinning creative studio founded in 2009
in Ireland by Richard Kelly. The studio has
offered a wide range of high-end animation
services to the advertising, e-learning and
music sectors and won multiple awards. This
work has grown the talent base of the studio,
enabling it to produce original short films
that have received recognition and awards
at many international festivals. The studio
is now ready to produce its first full-length
feature, Paperboy, and is assembling first
rate international production and voice talent
to realise this ambitious and exciting project.
Founded in 2007 by Maya Derrington,
Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley, Still Films
is a production company based in Dublin
and New York that makes feature films,
animations, documentaries, TV, trans-media
productions and artist films. Still Films
has a collective ethos; the team produce
and edit one another’s work as well as
supporting a wide group of associated
filmmakers. Still Films was given the
Michael Dwyer Discovery Award for new
talent by the Dublin Film Critics Circle.
Still Films projects featuring animation
include the experimental film The Rooms;
feature documentary Build Something
Modern; hybrid feature documentary
Last Hijack; and short films Learning to
Fish, Trolley Boy and We, The Masses.
Studio POWWOW creates and delivers
entertainment brands with engaging
stories and characters that are knitted
seamlessly back together on multiple
media platforms, by bringing their skill,
knowledge and vast experience of award
winning TV-quality animation, design and
storytelling to interactive content and games.
pricklypearproductions.ie
studiopowwow.com
stillfilms.org
pinkkongstudios.ie
Fear of Flying by Lovely Productions
Telegael
Treehouse Republic
Wiggleywoo
Zink Films
Telegael is one of Europe’s leading
animation and television production
houses. Established in 1988, the multi
Emmy and IFTA award-winning studio
works with international producers,
distributors and broadcasters to develop,
co-produce and finance animation and
live-action content for the global market.
Telegael’s client list includes some of the
biggest names in global broadcasting
including Disney, Cartoon Network,
France Television, Super-RTL, KIKA, BBC,
Nickelodeon, PBS Sprout, ITV, ZDF and
Discovery Kids. Telegael has coproduced
more than 700 hours of television. Its
productions have been distributed to over
140 territories throughout the world and
translated into more than 40 languages.
Treehouse Republic is where danger and
fun collide to make outrageously awesome
content. They create dangerously funny
brands for everyone to realise their positive
potential for mayhem!
Voted one of the top 25 up and coming
animation studios worldwide, Treehouse
Republic is an animation studio based in
Ireland. Established in 2010, Treehouse
Republic also offers development, preproduction and production services for a
number of clients.
Wiggleywoo is a Dublin-based animation
company set up in 2012 by Gilly (Creative
Director), Susan Broe (Producer) and Alan
Foley (CEO). Wiggleywoo’s objective is
to build a portfolio of highly commercial
animated projects that have the potential
to work crossplatform and to generate
licensing, merchandising and other
ancillary income. They have a number
of animated projects in development,
including preschool projects, a feature
film, an animated documentary drama
series and numerous apps, and they
have just completed production on
an adult animated documentary
drama series, Tea with the Dead.
Zink Films are one of the top suppliers of
quality animation and CGI content in the
country, having created ads for companies
such as Flahavan’s, Yoplait and Gateaux
and collaborated on CG/live-action mix
commercials for such clients as Tayto and
Berocca. Zink also specialise in animation
for the web and have created online content
for major brands like Coca-Cola, Guinness,
Carlsberg and Vodafone. They are the top
supplier of pre-viz and concept art, with
in-depth knowledge of CGI, animation,
character design/creation and the web
treehouserepublic.com
zinkfilms.com
wiggleywoo.com
telegael.com
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Aodh
Aodh is a young Irish furniture brand, with
a strong design ethos. It is the brainchild of
Garrett O’Hagan, an Irishman passionate
about design, architecture and the island on
which he lives. O’Hagan grew up surrounded
by modern furniture and has spent his
adult life sourcing and supplying the very
best international design for private and
commercial clients. Aodh marks a turning
point for O’Hagan, from that of a buyer,
to that of a manufacturer and editor. With
Aodh, he seeks to create a design-centred
business, rooted in Ireland with a strong
international focus. Aodh’s products are
universal – suitable for use everywhere, at
home, at work and in public spaces. Above all
they bring atmosphere, spirit and character
to the spaces we use and love. O’Hagan
commissions independent designers, whose
sensibility, language and spirit he’s drawn to.
With Aodh, O’Hagan seeks to create a ‘family’
of products – objects of personality and
character that work together as a collage
or happily stand alone, with presence. Aodh
uses the very best materials and processes
and where possible, seeks to produce at
home in Ireland, however the pursuit of
quality and skill, rather than location, will
always be the overriding decider. Making
furniture that remains functional and
aesthetically pleasing for decades to come is
Aodh’s raison d’être and is also at the heart
of ecological making. In commissioning
new pieces and seeking inspiration for
‘lifetime’ furniture, O’Hagan often refers to
the materials, colours and textures found
in the Irish landscape. These elemental
references guide Aodh’s pursuit of ‘longlife’
furniture pieces; heirlooms, filled with love
and memory that are made to be passed
down from one generation to the next.
aodh.eu
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Aodh is een jong Iers meubelmerk, met
een sterk vormgevingsethos. Het is het
geesteskind van Garrett O’Hagan, een
Ier met een passie voor vormgeving,
architectuur en het eiland waarop hij woont.
O’Hagan groeide op omringd door modern
meubilair en heeft zijn leven als volwassene
besteed aan het verwerven en leveren van
de allerbeste internationale vormgeving
voor particuliere en commerciële klanten.
O’Hagan besteed opdrachten uit aan
onafhankelijke vormgevers, tot wiens gevoel,
taal en geest hij zich aangetrokken voelt. Met
Aodh streeft O’Hagan ernaar een ‘familie’ van
producten te creëren; voorwerpen met een
persoonlijkheid en karakter. Objecten die
samenwerken als collage, of heel goed op
zichzelf staan, met aanwezigheid.
Featured Work:
The stackable Aran Armchair designed
by Alexander Gufler is a chair for use
everywhere – at home, at work, and in
pubic spaces. Details and techniques
abound in its design and construction.
Solid wood is the material. Traditional
joinery methods alongside advanced CNC
techniques are used in its production.
No surface, no joint, no connection, has
escaped the attention of the designer.
Materials:
Beech, Ash or Oak
H: 795 X D: 565 X W: 525 MM
Knut Klimmek
Dublin based Knut Klimmek founded
Klimmek-Henderson Furniture in 1986,
having graduated from the world-renowned
John Makepeace School for Craftsmen in
Wood. In 2015 the company rebranded
as Klimmek Furniture. Knut is a driving
force at Klimmek Furniture, responsible for
design, customer liaison, production and
quality assurance within the company, while
leading the team to ensure the production
of high quality, handcrafted pieces.
klimmek-furniture.ie
Featured Work:
“The Lann table is a development for Aodh
Furniture of our solid timber “Companion”
table. Slightly taller and with an additional
twist in the shape, these tables are finished in
a dead matt lacquer and are designed to wrap
over a seat they can be used as a temporary
work surface while sitting or just somewhere
to put down a drink, phone or book.”
Knut Klimmek
Materials:
Grey Fibre board
60 cm L x 60 cm H x 30 cm W
Alex Gufler
Knut Klimmek richtte Klimmek Henderson Furniture op in 1986, na te zijn
afgestudeerd aan de wereldberoemde
John Makepeace School for Craftsmen
in Wood. Knut is verantwoordelijk voor
vormgeving, klantrelaties, productie en
kwaliteitswaarborging binnen het bedrijf
en is een drijvende kracht binnen Klimmek
- Henderson Furniture. Hij leidt het team
om de productie van hoogwaardige,
handgemaakte voorwerpen te waarborgen.
Garrett O’Hagan approached Italian Alex
Gulfer to design the Aran chair for Aodh.
O’Hagan feels it is important to work with a
range of designers both within Ireland and
internationally. This approach enables the
evolution of a fluency in design aesthetic.
Born in 1979 in Merano, Italy, Alexander
started his career as a goldsmith in his
father’s shop. Following his MFA degree in
crafts at Pforzheim in Germany, he went on
to study industrial design at the University of
Applied Arts in Vienna where he graduated
in 2009. It was there that he cultivated his
passion for furniture and everyday objects.
In 2010 Gufler founded his studio
in the heart of Vienna, from where he
collaborates with national and international
clients. He creates design objects with
a high attention to detail, simplicity and
a profound knowledge of materials and
production processes. His work has been
exhibited in multiple countries and has
been honoured with international design
awards, including the Red Dot Design
Award and the 2015 iF Design Award.
Alexander, geboren in 1979 in Merano
(Italië), begon zijn loopbaan als goudsmid
in de werkplaats van zijn vader. Na het
behalen van zijn ambachtsmeestergraad
in Pforzheim (Duitsland) studeerde hij
industriële vormgeving aan de Universiteit
voor toegepaste kunst in Wenen, waar
hij afstudeerde in 2009. Daar heeft hij
zijn passie voor meubilair en alledaagse
voorwerpen ontwikkeld.
In 2010 richtte hij zijn studio op in het
hart van Wenen, van waaruit hij samenwerkt
met nationale en internationale klanten.
Alexander creëert designvoorwerpen
met veel aandacht voor detail, eenvoud
en een gedegen kennis van materialen
en productieprocessen. Zijn werk is
geëxposeerd in verschillende landen en
bekroond met internationale designprijzen.
alexandergufler.com
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Arckit
Damien Murtagh studied at the Hull
School of Architecture in the UK. Following
graduation he worked in Italy under Carlo
Scarpa’s protégé, Toni Follina for a period
of two years. He returned to Ireland to
set up Damien Murtagh, Architecture +
Design. In 2012, Damien moved to the
UK where he began to advance an idea
for a new scaled architectural model
building system that would challenge
traditional ‘cut and glue’ model making.
Damien launched ‘Arckit’ in May 2014.
To date it has received major recognition,
winning several prestigious international
awards including The Red Dot Award.
arckit.com
Featured Work:
Arckit is a scaled freeform modelling
system that allows architects and budding
architects alike, to physically explore
designs and bring their projects to life
with speed and precision, bridging the
gap between 3D and physical design.
Arckit is an evolutional product whereby
add-on components are limitless.
Materials:
Plastic components.
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Damien Murtagh heeft gestudeerd aan de
Hull School of Architecture in het Verenigd
Koninkrijk. Na zijn afstuderen heeft hij
gedurende twee jaar in Italië gewerkt
onder Toni Follina, de beschermeling van
Carlo Scarpa. Hij is teruggekeerd naar
Ierland om Damien Murtagh, Architecture
+ Design op te richten. In 2012 verhuisde
Damien naar het Verenigd Koninkrijk,
waar hij begon met het ontwikkelen van
een idee voor een nieuw schaalbaar
bouwsysteem voor architectuurmodellen
dat traditioneel modelleerwerk door middel
van ‘knippen en plakken’ zou uitdagen.
Damien lanceerde ‘Arckit’ in mei 2014.
Het heeft grote erkenning ontvangen en
meerdere prestigieuze internationale prijzen
gewonnen, waaronder de Red Dot Award.
Damien Murtagh
of Arckit
Interview
I’d been working as an architect in Ireland
when the recession hit. Then, suddenly I
was working at home. I was designing what
I thought could be a better modular building
system, and at the same time I was making
scale models of all the components that we
would make the buildings from. I realised
that there was nothing like that out there for
architects to work with. There’s Lego and
Meccano, but nothing to compete with foam
board. I kept thinking I’d find it, but it wasn’t
there.
Maybe the digital era is why it didn’t
happen before, models were being made
less frequently, but at the end of the day,
a computer is still a flat screen. In my
experience with clients, a tangible model far
outweighs the impact any drawing or image
could ever have. There is no comparison to
holding and manouvering a physical model in
order to explore a building’s form and detail.
Now, with Arckit, you can also make
changes, move windows, doors etc and this
encourages client participation as never
before… As I was working on it, I thought,
gosh, if I can get this right, it’s not just
going to make life easier for architects, but
everyone can work with it.
At just eighteen months old, we’re
crossing all sectors: professionals, students,
hobbyists, and the education sector and in
particular schools with STEM initiatives, are
embracing Arckit as a new hands on tool
for teaching. Arckit is considered more as
a precision design tool rather than a toy, a
form of graduation from toy building blocks.
It has been rolled out throughout the US with
Barnes and Noble.
Next up, we are developing the Arckit
infiniti 3D store on Shapeways which we
hope to launch within the year. Here you will
be able to purchase bespoke components
that don’t come with the standard kit, for
example curved walls and archways. We’ll
be adding to the store on a continual basis
and getting advice from our users as to
what they’d like to see. The possibilities are
virtually limitless.
During the recession when many
architects lost their jobs, the Royal
Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI),
encouraged its members to apply their skills
to other areas. I think the fruits of this are
very evident now by the real tangible buzz
surrounding the whole ‘start up’ community
in Dublin and all over the country. It’s very
positive to feel this atmosphere once again in
the country.
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Claire Anne O’Brien
Claire Anne O’Brien is a constructed textile
designer who creates three-dimensional
knitted fabrics for interiors. Originally
from County Cork, Claire Anne set up her
studio in East London after completing
an MA in Textiles at The Royal College of
Art in 2010. She has exhibited at London
Design Festival, Milan Furniture Fair, Wool
Modern and Spinexpo and received the
Future Maker Award from the Design &
Crafts Council of Ireland in 2011 and the
Cockpit/Haberdashers’ Award from the
UK Crafts Council in 2015. Claire Anne’s
work is inspired by traditional techniques
such as weave, knotting and basketry to
make playful investigations into structure
and form using the unique properties
of knit. The studio produces a range of
knitted wool furniture as well as bespoke
commissions and fabric development
for commercial and private clients.
claireanneobrien.com
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Claire-Anne O’Brien is een
textielconstructievormgever die
driedimensionale gebreide stoffen
creëert voor interieurs. Traditionele
textieltechnieken zoals weven, knopen en
mandvlechten vormen de inspiratie voor
speels onderzoek naar structuur en vorm
met behulp van de unieke eigenschappen
van breiwerk. Buisjes en ribbels worden
samengevoegd tot complexe patronen,
waarbij hun constructie wordt getoond
en benadrukt door middel van een grote
schaal en gewaagde kleuren. De studio
produceert een reeks meubelstukken van
gebreide wol, naast individuele opdrachten
en de ontwikkeling van stoffen voor
commerciële en particuliere klanten.
Featured Work:
The Ciséan grey pouffe is part of the
Olann Collection, which is inspired by
a traditional Ireland where fishing and
knitting were at the heart of village life.
Patterns and structures found in handknitted Aran sweaters and willow baskets
are explored through exaggerated scale
and new applications. Ciséan is handknitted and woven into 3D form using
a chunky, undyed Swalewick wool.
Materials:
100% Swalewick wool,
upholstery foam, ash wood.
Ceadogán Rugs
Ceadogán Rugs create contemporary
designer rugs and wall hangings at their
workshops in south County Wexford.
Denis Kenny, owner and maker, leads
the team at Ceadogán. Over the past 25
years the team has amassed a lifetime of
experience specialising in the creation of
striking rugs and wall hangings in wools and
silks, designed for specific spaces. The team
is focussed, highly skilled, very experienced
and dedicated to pairing the traditional
values of remarkable craftsmanship with
contemporary design.
Ceadogán have a tradition of
collaborating with leading Irish artists and
textile designers. The energy and dynamic
created by the collaboration of designer and
maker has distinguished this small niche
company over the years.
Visitors are very welcome to the
Ceadogán Rug workshop by appointment.
Situated in an eighteenth-century farmyard,
the workshop and studios overlook the
saltwater marshes of Bannow Bay Estuary
and the medieval monastic settlement
of Clonmines.
Ceadogán Rugs creëert hedendaagse
designer vloer- en wandtapijten. Het team is
gefocust, zeer deskundig, ervaren en richt
zich op het koppelen van de traditionele
waarden van opmerkelijk vakmanschap met
hedendaags design.
ceadogan.ie
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Claire Anne O’Brien in collaboration with Ceadogán Rugs
Featured Work:
Téadra is an un-tufted rug made with 100%
felted, undyed wool in 18mm cut pile and
8mm loop pile.
Collaborative Process:
Claire Anne O’Brien is best known for
her structural approach to knit and her
passion for texture and surface pattern.
Ceadogán are well known for the quality
and contemporary design of their rugs.
The collaboration allowed both designers
to explore new ways of working. For Claire
Anne the challenge was in how to animate
and bring her design aesthetic to a twodimensional surface. This was achieved
through the use of varying pile heights to
create a relief pattern on the surface of
the rug. For Ceadogán, the use of the pile
to create form and pattern represents a
departure from their usual rug-making and
collaborative process.
Materials:
100% wool, felted. Chunky 3/ply,
2m x 1.29m, c. 13.5kgs.
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Claire-Anne werkte samen met Ceadogán
Rugs om het gebruik van verschillende
poolhoogten te verkennen, om een tapijt te
creëren dat gebruik maakt van reliëf om het
motief uit te beelden. Het resultaat draagt
de titel ‘Téadra’, een Ierse vertaling van het
woord vlecht.
Rothschild & Bickers
Victoria Rothschild is an Irish designer and a
graduate of the National College of Art and
Design. She moved to the UK in 1998 and
went on to study at the Royal College of Art
in London. Specialising in glass, much of her
work is a tactile response to the raw material,
retaining a close relationship between the
product and the process of making. She
has worked on a diverse range of critically
acclaimed projects with the Design & Crafts
Council of Ireland and her work has been
exhibited internationally. In 2007 Victoria
and business partner Mark Bickers set up
the Rothschild & Bickers studio in Hertford
to produce hand blown glass lighting. With
a known commitment to craft and a mission
to revive the industry, the brand is inspired
by the heritage of this unique material and
the skills used in its transformation. Today,
Rothschild & Bickers has a portfolio of over
20 products and its lighting adorns hotels,
restaurants, bars, shops and homes around
the world.
Featured Work:
Mineral Pendants. This range has been
created in response to the growing trend for
organic materials. Marble finishes have been
popular for a number of years. The liquid
nature of glass makes it the perfect material
for recreating delicate veins and intricate
patterns, the properties that make these
precious stones so desirable.
Using a mix of solid and powder
pigments, Rothschild & Bickers can
produce a range of wonderful colours, from
deep rusted reds to celadon greens. This
spontaneous process makes every light a
truly unique piece.
“Every piece that we create, whether it’s a
bespoke commission or something from one
of our signature collections, is an original.
Each one is free blown and comes with its
own tiny irregularities. It is impossible to
imagine the many steps and techniques,
which go into producing each of our designs
if you haven’t seen the process for yourself.”
Victoria Rothschild
Victoria Rothschild is gespecialiseerd in
glas- en verlichtingsvormgeving en veel
van haar werk is een tastbare reactie op
het ruwe materiaal, waarbij een nauwe
relatie bewaard blijft tussen het product
en het vervaardigingsproces. Ze heeft
gewerkt aan een diverse reeks veelgeprezen
projecten met de Design & Crafts Council
van Ierland en haar werk is internationaal
geëxposeerd. Victoria en zakelijk partner
Mark Bickers hebben de Rothschild and
Bickers-studio opgericht in Hertford om
prachtige, handgeblazen glazen verlichting
te produceren.
rothschildbickers.com
Materials:
Glass, metal, fabric flex, bulbs.
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Emma Cahill
Dublin born jewellery designer Emma
Cahill creates wearable objects with an
innovative approach to jewellery that
focuses on gardening tools. Her main source
of inspiration comes from her mother’s
back garden and the hard work that goes
into it. Gardening is a tiring process of
hacking and cutting but the results are
beautiful and rewarding. Emma’s focus is
on the gardening tools that aid this process
using a range of materials from traditional
metalwork techniques, new technologies
and hand dying. The colour inspiration
comes from the graduating hues of tulips,
hydrangeas and the deep hues of beetroots.
Emma aims to promote jewellery that uses
interdisciplinary techniques and challenge
current conceptions of nature. Emma has
just completed a BA in Metals and Jewellery
with History of Art at the National College
of Art and Design. Emma has received
recognition for a number of awards and was
the winner of the Mark Fenn Award from the
Association for Contemporary Jewellery. She
has also worked for a number of international
jewellery makers and companies. Since
September 2015, Emma has been attending
Central Saint Martins in London for an MA in
Design in Jewellery.
emmacahilldesign.com
Featured Work:
Blue 3D printed/hand dyed
neckpiece. The neckpiece is
inspired by the twisted roots of
trees and the blue gradient colours
of hydrangeas.
Materials:
Hand dyed 3D printed plastic,
rubber tubing, silver.
50cm x 20cm.
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Emma Cahill is een sieradenontwerpster.
Ze creëert draagbare voorwerpen,
geïnspireerd door de achtertuin van haar
moeder. Emma verkent de zeer fysieke,
inspannende activiteiten van tuinieren en
metaalwerk als vergelijkbare processen
met prachtige, delicate resultaten. Ze
gebruikt interdisciplinaire technieken,
waarbij ze traditioneel metaalwerk, nieuwe
technologieën en handverven gebruikt voor
haar werk.
Genevieve Howard
Genevieve is a designer/maker from Dublin
who has recently graduated with a BA
degree in Metals and Jewellery from the
National College of Art and Design. She is
also an accomplished musician interested
in combining her skills as a designer with
her passion and love for music. Her initial
collection fuses elements from both of these
areas into a series of innovative jewellery
designs. She is interested in translating
pieces of music into tactile and wearable
forms. She makes wearable musical
sculptures using new technologies such
as laser cutting combined with traditional
handmade and metalwork techniques.
Genevieve was recently featured
as an emerging maker in the RDS National
Craft and Art Awards exhibition in Dublin,
Ireland. Her work was showcased at the
New Designers exhibition in London this
year, where she received invitations to exhibit
at The Great Northern Events Contemporary
Craft Fair in Manchester, The Kath Libbert
Youth Movement exhibition in Leeds and the
Galarie Marzee Annual Graduate Exhibition
in Nijmegen, Netherlands where her work
is currently on display. She was awarded
the Galarie Marzee International Graduate
Award 2015.
Genevieve Howard is een ontwerpster/
maakster en musicus uit Dublin, Ierland.
Ze is geïnteresseerd in het vertalen
van muziekstukken naar tastbare en
draagbare vormen. Genevieve maakt
draagbare muzieksculpturen door
middel van nieuwe technologieën,
zoals lasersnijden in combinatie met
traditionele handvaardigheids- en
metaalbewerkingstechnieken.
Featured Work:
The Sonatine bracelet. Laser cut grey
and black bracelet. Inspired by a three
part sonatine written for the piano by the
romantic composer Maurice Ravel. The
graphic notation in the neckpiece mirrors the
sequence of the original musical score.
Materials:
Japanese linen card, elastic cord.
genevievehowarddesign.com
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Designgoat
Designgoat is an industrial design studio
based in Dublin that creates experiences
through products, spaces, furniture and
food. Established in 2011, Designgoat
has worked on a broad range of projects
including self-directed products, commercial
interiors and exhibition designs. The aim
is always to deliver unique experiences
for clients ranging from small start-ups to
large international brands. Designgoat does
much of the prototyping and manufacture
on its projects in-house and has built close
relationships with trusted local fabricators to
realise the work.
wearedesigngoat.com
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Designgoat creëert ervaringen door middel
van producten, ruimten, meubilair en voedsel,
en werkt aan een brede reeks projecten,
waaronder zelfgestuurde producten,
commerciële interieurs en expositieontwerpen.
Katie Sanderson
For the last ten years Katie Sanderson has
been creating unique food experiences
in spaces that are out of the ordinary:
disused warehouses, galleries and a
Wicklow rainforest. The common theme is a
playfulness with location, with food and the
way that it is served and enjoyed. Vegetables
are the main feature and Katie likes to evolve
recipes from the past and use seaweeds
and other sea vegetables as an enhancing
ingredient. In The Hare, a collaboration with
artist Fiona Hallinan, Katie created a moving
vegetarian café that was structured to easily
work within Temple Bar Gallery in Dublin’s
historic centre. The Hare went on to be
hosted in The Irish Museum of Modern Art
and the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. In
the summer of 2014 Katie and her partner
Jasper O’Connor converted a boat shed on
the water’s edge in Aughrusbeg, Connemara
into a restaurant for the summer months,
making a journey out to the far West of
Ireland part of the experience of the meal.
Katie Sanderson creëert bijzondere
voedselervaringen in buitengewone ruimten:
leegstaande opslagplaatsen, galerijen en een
kuuroord. Groenten vormen het middelpunt
en Katie ontwikkelt graag recepten uit het
verleden en gebruikt zeewier en andere
zeegroenten als aanvullend ingrediënt.
katiejanesanderson.com
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Designgoat in collaboration with Katie Sanderson
Featured Work:
A collection of tableware with various
materials and finishes, all inspired by
the food to be served on them.
Collaborative Process:
The collaboration between Designgoat
and Katie Sanderson has come from their
discussions on process and experiences.
They have developed a collection of objects
that will be used to serve a collaborative
dinner inspired by Irish food, sea and
raw materials. The aim is to create an
experience that is built up throughout 2015,
growing with each show. The process of
preparing the food, the materials used
and the crafting of a unique experience all
influence the tableware for each dish.
Materials:
Spun, polished brass bowl.
Approx. 160mm diameter,
55mm height, 360g.
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Het samenwerkingsproject tussen
Designgoat en Sanderson, ‘Kelp’, omvat
een speciaal ontworpen voedselervaring
voor een klein gezelschap in Eindhoven.
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Design Partners in collaboration with Seed Labs
Design Partners is a leading strategic
product design consultancy with a team of
award-winning designers, engineers and
makers working from studios in Dublin,
San Francisco and Eindhoven. The team
leads with clarity of intent and a relentless
focus on execution and delivery, fuelling
clients’ ambitions through the creation of
exceptional new products. Design Partners
consults across sectors with global brands
and high potential start-ups including Seed
Labs, Honeywell, Corning, Calor, Ultimate
Ears, LG, Logitech and Panasonic.
designpartners.com
Featured Work:
Seed Labs Inc. – Silvair
In 2013 Seed Labs Inc. approached
Design Partners with pioneering new
Bluetooth and connected solutions through
the development of their own software,
protocols and chip technologies. From the
first meeting, Design Partners recognised
that the Seed team were ambitious and
driven with a proven, deep understanding
of the technology. There was a clear
opportunity to enter and explore a new
territory of products and services together.
With their complementary capabilities
they believed that they could be at the
forefront of shaping the future of connected
devices. Over the past two years Design
Partners have worked with Seed Labs Inc.
to explore the Smart Home market and to
uncover and deliver the potential of their
technology and brand. They have helped in
the development of their brand, experience,
product design language and in the design
of all of their reference products. Working
closely with Seed Labs Inc. They ensured
that the the first of these products was
delivered to market in April 2015, in the form
of their first control device, Silvair Control.
Together they are committed to developing
their collaboration and are continuing to
explore strategic and future concepts that
will integrate hardware and software.
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Design Partners is een toonaangevend
ontwerpadviesbureau voor strategische
producten met een team van prijswinnende
vormgevers, technici en makers die werken
vanuit studio’s in Dublin, San Francisco en
Eindhoven. Design Partners demonstreert
expertise in digitale ontwerpen in Ierland
en zal een technologie onthullen die een
revolutie zal veroorzaken in onze interactie
met onze leef- en werkruimten.
Causeway by Design Partners
Featured Work:
Causeway is an intersection of artefact
and experience. It is a bespoke creation
for ID2015 representing a design island
connecting to the rest of the world.
Each corner of Causeway controls
a beautiful animation that travels along
the faceted surface. Only by pressing
combinations of corners does Causeway
really come to life, encouraging interaction,
play and discovery between people across
this landscape.
Animations:
Studio Piotr Juncewski.
Coding:
David Payne.
Technical concept:
Darren Conroy.
Materials:
Projection mapping animations
onto a polyurethane foam body.
900mm x 900mm x 850m, 40kg.
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Dolmen
Dolmen is a creative design and
innovation consultancy that discovers,
develops and delivers new products by
combining innovation strategies with
creative design thinking. For the past
24 years they have been developing
award-winning, intellectual propertyrich new products and experiences for a
diverse range of industries, ranging from
medical devices and consumer products
to information and communication
technology and fast-moving consumer
goods. Key clients include Diageo, ASH,
ACT, Hollister, Stryker, Covidien, and
Medtronic.
The core of Dolmen’s work is centred
around a proven strategic design thinking
process, which comprises of a variety of
tools and methodologies that are adapted
to customers’ requirements and result
in uncovering unmet and unarticulated
needs in the end user. This is followed by
intensive work by a highly creative design
team, designing products from the inside
out, and delivering products to clients
that win in the market place.
www.dolmen.ie
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Dolmen is een adviesbureau voor creatieve
vormgeving en innovatie. Ze ontdekken,
ontwikkelen en leveren nieuwe producten
door innovatiestrategieën te koppelen
aan creatief vormgevingsdenkwerk. De
afgelopen 24 jaar hebben ze nieuwe
prijswinnende, IP-rijke producten en
ervaringen voor een diverse reeks
industrieën, van medische apparatuur en
consumentenproducten tot ICT en FMCG.
Novaerus
Novaerus is the first plasma system for
airborne infection control. It uses a lowenergy patented plasma that is stable,
reproducible, containable and highly
destructive to the microorganisms that enter
its field. Its plasma requires no maintenance
and works 24 hours a day to eradicate
airborne viruses, bacteria, mould, allergens
and odours, essentially cleaning the air
and creating a healthier environment. By
reducing the presence of these pathogens in
the air, a healthcare facility can significantly
lower the risk of infectious outbreaks.
Novaerus streeft ernaar de zakelijke kant
en de kwaliteit van zorg te verbeteren door
middel van de toepassing van technologie
voor de bestrijding van ziekteverwekkers
in de lucht. Tot nu toe zijn er belangrijke
vorderingen geboekt op het gebied van
hygiëne door ontsmetting van handen en
oppervlakken. De Novaerus-technologie
gaat verder dan slechts het schoonmaken
van handen en oppervlakken en maakt ook
de lucht schoon.
novaerus.com
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Dolmen in collaboration with Novareus
Featured Work:
Handheld product for detecting
environments that are susceptible
to viruses. This is measured using
temperature, humidity and volatile
organic compounds in the air.
Materials:
Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene L(ABS-L).
115mm x 75mm x 20mm, approx. 300g.
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Dolmen en Novaerus hebben samengewerkt
aan draagbare technologie voor de
bestrijding van ziekteverwekkers, een
revolutionair nieuw product voor het
detecteren en neutraliseren van virussen en
bacteriën in de lucht.
Dolmen and Novareus
Interview
Great products work well because we
think about the users as we design for
them. Psychology and ergonomics play
a large part. During your education, you
learn how colour and form enhance what
you’re making. Then you go into a practical
environment and you tie that in with the
experience you gain from the products you
design.
There is beauty in simplicity and that
is a trait in human behaviour. Whether a
product is being used by a doctor, nurse or
site manager, they’re all still people, who
have a pre-wired sense of what looks good
and what works. When you see a simple,
uncluttered form, there’s a reassurance
about it, it ages well and will be easy to use.
This makes sense for a developer such as
Novaerus and was one of the aesthetic
drivers for Dolmen. But it’s not all about
aesthetics, we have to back it up with
ergonomics and engineering, this is key
to this sector. These three must exist in
perfect equilibrium. That’s our sweet spot
for a product.
Collaboration happens naturally. We
incorporate clients as team members,
so Felipe became an essential part of
the process – it’s not about calling to the
door and ordering something! We’ve been
working together for just over a year. With
Felipe, we’re looking to make a product
that has to sit and quietly do its business
in health care facilities, it has to look
reassuring, be smooth so it can be easily
cleaned, and it has to look very modern –
because it is a very smart piece of kit.
Felipe Soberon of
Novaerus
Interview
We have worked on many projects with
Dolmen. We make airborne infection
control systems, that kill any pathogens in
the air, destroying viruses, yeasts, mould.
We wanted to make sensors to show
what’s actually in the air, so we developed
the technologies, but then we wanted to
get a good enclosure around them.
We do a thorough testing of our
products. I have a college connection
through DCU with some of the guys who
work at NASA. When we wanted to know
what our systems are actually doing to
destroy the bacteria in the air, they came
on board. The first microorganism they
picked up was E-Coli, so they passed them
through our system. The rod-shaped E-Coli
cells come through completely deformed,
broken, so this shows the plasma charge is
very intense – even to such an aggressive
pathogen. We’re now looking at MRSA with
them, forensically right down to atomic
level.
It was Laser Prototypes Europe Ltd. in
Belfast that recommended Dolmen to me,
so I ended up talking to Chris and Kevin
Maguire about the ideas and concepts.
We want products that work, but that look
beautiful too. Dolmen do this amazing
research. There was one product with a
fairly simple LED display, and they said that
if we put a plastic piece in the right tone
of semi transparent black, we can make it
look really good, so Mark Murray went off
and bought lots of pairs of sunglasses to
experiment to get the right tone, and it was
perfect. So this is the amount of creative
dedication they put into it.
You can make the technology, but a
collaboration with the right people makes
the product.
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Milan
April 14-19
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Liminal – Irish design at the threshold
was first exhibited at Milan Design Week,
marking Ireland’s first presence at the
leading international event. The exhibition
was located in Zona Tortona, and featured
58 designers, companies and studios.
The flagship exhibition drew an estimated
40,000 visitors into the curated space,
and is part of an ambitious programme of
over 300 events for Irish Design 2015.
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New York
May 15-18
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Love and Robots
Love & Robots are a Dublin based design
studio that works at the intersection of
art, digital design and technology. With
a passion for both design (love) and 3D
printing (robots), they push the boundaries
of design and technology to create
beautifully crafted, customisable, unique
products for design lovers everywhere.
loveandrobots.com
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Love & Robots is een vormgevingsbureau
die werkt op het snijvlak van kunst, digitale
vormgeving en technologie. Met een passie
voor vormgeving (liefde) en 3D-printen
(robots) verleggen zij de grenzen van
vormgeving en technologie om prachtige,
bewerkte, aanpasbare, unieke producten te
creëren voor liefhebbers van vormgeving.
Niamh Lunny
Niamh Lunny is Head of Costume at
the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national
theatre. She has designed costumes
for The Abbey Theatre, ANU, The
Performance Corporation, Fishamble
Theatre Company and Rough Magic
along with many other film, TV and theatre
companies. She has designed sets and
visual art for the Peacock, The Abbey
Theatre and The Big House Festival.
Niamh Lunny is hoofd van de
kostuumafdeling van het Abbey Theatre,
ANU, The Performance Corporation,
Fishamble Theatre Company en Rough
Magic, naast vele andere film-, tv- en
theaterbedrijven. Ze heeft sets en beeldende
kunst ontworpen voor de Peacock, het
Abbey Theatre en het Big House Festival.
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Love and Robots in collaboration with Niamh Lunny
Featured work:
Plumage is a 3D printed free-moving
customisable cape. This collaborative project
between Love & Robots and Lunny, looks at
traditional costume and theatre design and
how it can be reinterpreted using new digital
design and 3D printing technologies. It is an
exploration of patterns in fabric such as knit
and lace, as well as 3-dimensional structures
and surfaces, and natural phenomena. The
Plumage cape is designed as 3D printed
chainmail with ornamental attachments to
create a wearable garment. The ornaments
are attached to the chainmail and can move
independently of each other – creating
movement, visual interest, and fluidity within
the material.
Love & Robots have previously
experimented with 3d printing chainmail
structures, as well as complex organic
patterns. The Plumage cape extends those
explorations to construct a piece of clothing
that can be 3D printed all in one piece
without any assembly required. The exhibited
piece has over 6,000 moving component
parts.
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Materials:
Nylon polyamide.
Love & Robots
Interview
Plumage is the world’s first 3d printed,
free-moving, customisable cape. We
collaborated with Niamh Lunny, head of
costume design at the Abbey Theatre.
We’d been working with 3D printed chain
mail, and we were excited about the idea
of being able to push that further. We both
trained as architects, but we’d been making
jewellery and accessories, and as Niamh is
in costume, our collaboration was obviously
going to be something wearable.
Niamh understands how textiles work,
and how to lay out a pattern to create
the overall form. As she put it, chain mail
behaves like a fabric, so we’ve actually
created a new kind of textile. Each piece
is a solid, rigid piece of nylon, but because
of the chain mail structure, each “feather”
moves independently. So, with 6,000
moving pieces, it’s fluid and free moving, it
rustles, it tinkles.
The cool thing about 3D printing is that
now we’ve created the file (it took weeks
and weeks, as each of the 6,000 parts
has to be drawn in space, not touching
another), every feather can be customised.
Then, the printer makes it, all in one go. You
can’t see it, unfortunately, as it’s in a vat of
powder. Lasers are zapping it, and it takes
about a day, and then you pull it out fully
formed and shake it out. There is some post
production, but that’s more or less it.
Emer had done a Masters in the USA in
Digital Design, and realised 3D printing was
going to change everything. What excites
us is that you can make anything, and each
thing you make can be different, but all of
a really high quality. We teamed up with
software developers, so that each of our
Love and Robots products is unique, and
customisable.
Iris van Herpen and Chanel have
experimented with 3D printing, you see
some on the catwalks, but our cape
is the first of its type, the world’s first,
customisable 3D cape. And yes, it will be for
sale on our website. We have just opened
our first pop up shop at Fumbally Exchange
on Dame Lane, Dublin. There will be iPads,
so you can come in and customise, then
take your own unique piece away.
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Cathal Loughnane
Cathal Loughnane is Creative Director with
Design Partners, a leading Irish strategic
product design consultancy. He studied
Industrial Design at Carlow IT and the
National College of Art and Design, Dublin
and has played a core role in developing
DesignPartners’ unique approach to
industrial design, merging craft techniques
with advanced computer-aided technology.
His consulting work with a broad spectrum
of global brands has been recognised
internationally by Red Dot and Industrie
Forum in Germany and Good Design in the
United States and Japan. A sculptor at heart,
Cathal has a passion for storytelling and
the study of human motivations and strives
in his creative work to make meaningful
connections that resonate with people’s lives
and to reflect the balance between refined
form and visceral beauty.
designpartners.com
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Cathal Loughnane is creatief directeur bij
Design Partners, een toonaangevend Iers
ontwerpadviesbureau voor strategische
producten. Hij heeft industriële vormgeving
gestudeerd aan Carlow IT en het National
College of Art and Design en heeft een
sleutelrol gespeeld in de ontwikkeling
van de unieke benadering van Design
Partners voor industriële vormgeving,
waarbij ambachtelijke technieken worden
gecombineerd met geavanceerde
computertechnologie. Zijn advieswerk
voor een breed spectrum van wereldwijde
merken is internationaal erkend door Red
Dot en Industrie Forum in Duitsland en
Good Design in de Verenigde Staten en
Japan. Als beeldhouwer heeft Cathal een
passie voor het vertellen van verhalen en het
bestuderen van menselijke beweegredenen
en streeft in zijn creatieve werk ernaar
betekenisvolle verbanden te leggen die
weerklank vinden in de levens van mensen
en de balans te weerspiegelen tussen
verfijnde vorm en ruwe schoonheid.
Peter Sheehan
Peter is a graduate of the National College
of Art & Design, Dublin and has worked
for over 25 years across the spectrum
of design consultancy for global brands,
for much of that time as Creative Director
of strategic product design consultancy
Design Partners. He has developed several
iconic computer input devices for key client
Logitech, all of which blend the signatures
of Peter’s work: thoughtful detailing,
functionality, ergonomics and a quiet,
honed, sculptural aesthetic. His work has
been exhibited in MoMA San Francisco;
MoMA New York; the Chicago Athenaeum;
at the Red Dot and Industrie Forum awards,
Germany; and Good Design, Japan.
In 2011 he set up Peter Sheehan Studios
to take a wide-angle view of design, making,
craft and art – while continuing to do a
certain amount of design consultancy and
mentoring.
Peter Sheehan is al meer dan 25
jaar werkzaam op alle terreinen van
ontwerpadvies voor wereldwijde merken,
waaronder Design Partners. Zijn werk
is wereldwijd geëxposeerd, waaronder
op MoMA San Francisco en New York.
De Pilgrim Chair is zijn meest recente
samenwerking met Cathal Loughnane.
petersheehanstudio.com
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Cathal Loughnane in collaboration with Peter Sheehan
Featured Work:
The Pilgrim Chair is a work in progress, a
direct follow up to a previous collaboration
between Peter Sheehan and Cathal
Loughnane - The History Chair. It is the
latest step in a long-standing design
collaboration between two designers
that goes back to when they first worked
together at Design Partners over 20 years
ago. Both are scribblers, and sketching
is at the heart of their process. Both are
sculptors, striving to capture beauty in
form. Their work together is underpinned
by conversations more than anything else.
The continuous arms and back on the
current iteration of the chair is realised
in solid wood but will be upholstered in
fabric over a single U shape of formed ply
in its final fully developed form. The History
Chair is a piece of crafted sculpture – The
Pilgrim Chair is its pared-down, functional,
austere sibling.
Collaborative Process:
The collaboration between Peter and
Cathal is rooted in their history of
working together, their own experiences
and observations, sharing stories and
conversations, a shared approach to how
they work and their complementary yet
different perspectives and strengths.
Identifying and understanding the essence
of an object is central to their work. Over
a number of months Loughnane and
Sheehan worked with the craftsman Ryan
Connolly, paring back the design language
of The History Chair to realise a new
chair with a similar presence but with the
emphasis on silhouette and simplicity.
Materials:
Oak and cotton over foam.
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Sheehan en Loughnane hebben
ook samengewerkt aan ‘ibi’ voor
het Souvenir Project, een object
geïnspireerd op het herleven van een
bepalend moment in ons leven.
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Mcor Technologies
Mcor Technologies Ltd is an innovative
manufacturer of the world’s most affordable,
full-colour and eco-friendly 3D printers
based in Co Louth. They are the only 3D
printers to use ordinary business A4
and letter paper as the build material, a
choice that renders durable, stable and
tactile models. Established in 2004 with
a talented team of specialists in the area
of 3D printing hardware and software,
Mcor’s vision is to make 3D printing more
accessible to everyone. The company
operates internationally from offices in
Ireland, the UK, America and Asia-Pacific.
Mcor’s product range includes the Mcor
Matrix 300+ (monochrome printer) and the
Mcor IRIS (full-colour printer). Mcor serves
many business sectors including education,
engineering, architecture, entertainment and
medical/dental. The company has over 60
retailers selling globally in Europe, the Middle
East, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.
Some of Mcor’s key clients include Adobe,
Autodesk, the Royal College of Art, the US
Navy, Siemens and Panasonic.
ID2015 and Mcor are initiating a creative
exploration that will bring skills and ingenuity
together with the unique potential of Mcor’s
technology.
mcortechnologies.com
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Mcor Technologies Ltd is een innovatieve
fabrikant van ’s werelds meest betaalbare
full colour en milieuvriendelijke 3D-printers.
Deze zijn de enige 3D-printers die
gewoon A4- en Letter-papier gebruiken
als constructiemateriaal; een keuze die
duurzame, stabiele en tastbare modellen
oplevert. Mcor is opgericht in 2004 met
een getalenteerd team van specialisten
op het gebied van 3D-printhardware
en -software. Hun visie is 3D-printen
toegankelijker te maken voor iedereen.
Heet bedrijf opereert internationaal
vanuit kantoren in Ierland, het Verenigd
Koninkrijk, Amerika en de APAC-regio.
Featured Work:
The 3D prints on display are the result of
collaborations with the National College
of Art and Design (NCAD), Dún Laoghaire
Institute of Art, Design and Technology
(IADT), Carlow IT, Dublin Institute of
Technology (DIT), Pinkkong Studios, Prof
Keith Brown of The University of Manchester,
and Vanina.
Materials:
Paper.
Deirdre McCormack
of Mcor Technologies
talks about innovation
and the development
of the company
As long as I’ve known Conor and Fintan,
they’ve been inventing things. I’m married
to Conor, and as soon as they get into a
room together they’re dreaming up things
on the back of envelopes. If it wasn’t this,
it would have been something else. I’m
the one with a marketing background,
but this technology thrills me. There’s a
certain awe to being able to produce a
three dimensional object from one of our
machines.
When we started it was funny, people
would ask if they needed 3D glasses to see
3D printing. People couldn’t get past the
idea of the virtual. 3D printing has actually
been around for more than 30 years, but it’s
only in the last 5 to 6 years that we’ve seen
the emergence of more affordable printers.
I think of it as democratising creativity.
What’s different about us is that we’ve
made the only paper-based 3D printer in
the world.
You can print almost anything from
regular sheets of A4 paper. This means
it’s more environmentally friendly, and you
can achieve full bit-map colours which
are amazing. The results are very robust.
They’re solid and tough, but you can also
add finishes to make them flexible. The
number of applications is increasing all the
time. From a plastic surgeon to a designer,
it’s a piece of technology that allows
creativity and innovation to happen. I think
people underestimate paper, it’s a very
versatile material. In fact, when you’ve seen
some of the things that come out of our
machines, you wouldn’t look at paper in the
same way again!
We’re always travelling to trade shows.
We were at CES (Consumer Electronics
Show) in Las Vegas in January, hammering
nails into a piece of wood with a paper
hammer we’d printed ourselves. It takes
people a few minutes to get the message,
but then they’re amazed. From our base in
Louth, we’re completely export orientated,
selling through a network of resellers.
Conor is a thought leader in the industry, so
he’s invited to speak at lots of conferences.
You can see the world of 3D printing
growing all the time, but we stand out
because we make the only paper-based
printer.
We started out in 2005 with just the
three of us, but now we’ve opened offices
in the UK and USA. And yes, Conor and
Fintan are still inventing. When they get
together, you can see the sparks.
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The Salvage Press
Jamie Murphy is a typographic designer
and letterpress printer based in Dublin.
His interests lie where contemporary
graphic design meets traditional production
techniques. Since 2012 he has produced
his books and broadsides under the imprint
of The Salvage Press. Jamie has served
as as designer in residence at Distillers
Press, NCAD since 2013 where he works
with students of Visual Communication.
His letterpress printed work is held in many
of the world’s most distinguished private,
institutional and academic collections.
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The Salvage Press in collaboration with Distiller Press and Solaris Tea
Distillers Press
Solaris Tea
Featured Work:
Distillers Press is the letterpress print
workshop at The National College of Art
& Design, Dublin. As Ireland’s only
working letterpress facility in third level
education, Seán and Jamie work primarily
with students of Visual Communications
teaching the fundamentals of typography
and facilitating research. With several
operational presses and access to
over 400 cases of metal and wooden
type, Distillers Press is at the forefront
of letterpress design in Ireland.
Solaris Botanicals is an Internationally
Award-winning Tea Blending company
from Galway, Ireland. Founded by Master
Teablender and Medical Herbalist Joerg
Mueller, they have combined their extensive
knowledge of healing plants and their
properties, with the blending of 1st Flush
Whole-leaf Organic Teas, which contain
95% more antioxidants compared to
ordinary Tea bags. Their teas contain no
artificial aromas or flavours and their focus
on using the highest quality ingredients
with biodegradeable materials has
made Solaris Botanicals one of Irelands
leading high-end tea suppliers.
It’s hard to overestimate the importance
of tea in Irish culture. Tea is simultaneously
a beverage, a medicine, and a social ritual.
The Irish drink on average four cups of tea
a day, amounting to 7 pounds of dried tea
leaves over the course of a year, easily the
highest rate of tea consumption in the world.
No respectable Irish household would be
found without tea, and it’s importance is
such that even pubs are legally required
to provide it!
Jamie Murphy in partnership with the
Distillers Press have explored this love of a
cup of tea, through the design of letterpress
printed packaging for a bespoke blend of
Irish tea created by Solaris Tea.
distillerspress.com
solarisbotanicals.com
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The Souvenir Project
Ireland is home to a vibrant design
and craft sector which has its roots in
Ireland’s heritage and tradition but is
continually innovating, exploring new ideas,
approaches and techniques. Inspired
by the country’s stunning landscapes
and an abundance of local materials,
designers and craftspeople throughout
the island of Ireland create contemporary
objects with a strong sense of place.
The ambition of The Souvenir Project
commissioned by Irish Design 2015 and
curated by Jonathan Legge of Makers &
Brothers, is to draw upon Ireland’s rich
material culture and reinvent, reclaim
and redeem the humble and often
stereotypical souvenir, making it beautiful,
meaningful and eminently collectible.
Taking elements of the island’s past,
the designers and makers featured
in The Souvenir Project have created
a collection of products that reflect
Ireland’s design-led future and celebrate
Irish materials, culture and heritage.
Each tells a unique story of Ireland.
thesouvenirproject.irishdesign2015.ie
Souvenir 01 Sponge ware
Designed by Johnny Kelly
Made by Nicholas Mosse Pottery
This plate is the result of a collaboration
between Nicholas Mosse Pottery and
animator Johnny Kelly, commemorating
the legalisation of same-sex marriage
in Ireland on the 22nd of May 2015.
Inspired by the pottery’s extensive back
catalogue of designs and colour, the
resulting rainbow pattern is reconstructed
entirely from this archive of motifs, including
elements dating back to the 1970s when
Nicholas Mosse Pottery was established.
This souvenir is a small celebration for
a big moment in Ireland’s history, a gently
waving flag for equality.
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Het Souvenir-project is een opwindende
verzameling van negen nieuwe souvenirs
die de gangbare opvattingen over Ierland
uitdagen, hedendaagse Ierse vormgeving
promoten en lokale productie steunen. Het
project stelt in vraag wat een Iers souvenir
zou kunnen zijn. Het presenteert een
collectie hedendaagse voorwerpen met
betekenis en diepte die voorzichtig de lokale
context verkennen en er worden creatieve
samenwerkingen tussen Ierse vormgevers
en makers bevordert. De samenstelling
en creatieve leiding is in handen van
Jonathan Legge, Makers and Brothers.
Souvenir 02 Honey Pot
Designed and made by
Stephen Pearce Pottery
Honey produced by Coolmore Bees
Packaging by Post Studio
One field, the source of both the clay for the
pot and the raw honey that it holds.
Good food is very much related to the
land and as such to memory of place. This
honey pot is about one very specific place
- a field in East Cork. The pot contains
raw honey created on the banks of the
Blackwater.
Clay was sourced next to the hives. That
same clay was formed and fired a few miles
down the road from this field and the raw
honey sealed inside with the wax created in
the production of that same honey. A vessel
containing all one field in Cork has to offer.
Souvenir 03 Cut Crystal
Patterns designed by Scott Burnett
Made by J. HILL’s Standard
In Ireland we have many names for rain.
The words ghost their original Irish form.
They describe the force, direction and
potential consequences of the rain. Most
tellingly, they lay bare our diverse feelings
about this too regular imposition: A soft day
brings steel grey cloud which wipes out the
landscape and dulls all feeling; Spitting; a
mild inconvenience allowing the suffering
to weave between the drops. It’s absolutely
Lashing; rain bounces off the ground and
unleashes a torrent of dialogue, aghast at the
state of the weather.
Elements speak of nature and
landscape and our interpretation of them
says a lot about us. Rain can be symbolic of
melancholy, passion, wistfullness, creativity.
It lends the Irish land its verdent greeness
and its water and fire colour palette.
J.Hill’s Standard produces hand made
contemporary crystal in Waterford, Ireland,
cut with precision by craftsmen who use
age-old knowledge and skill.
The physical nature of rain is
especially satisfying to interpret in cuts
on crystal. We have used a series of
different cutting techniques to achieve
the effect of imagery created for us by
Graphic Designer Scott Burnett.
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Souvenir 04 Brandub
Designed by dePaor
Board design collaboration by
Sphere One | Lucy Downes
An brandub is the boardgame mentioned
since the sixth century in Irish texts. The
old game of ground is presented here as a
section of peat, compressed and cut into
thirteen figures, played on a punctured wool
felt mat. An brandub, the raven, is perched
at the centre of the board, outnumbered and
surrounded, and plays for stalemate – an
island game.
“The centre of the plain of Fal is Tara’s
castle, delightful hill; out in the exact centre
of the plain, like a mark on a brandub board.
Advance thither, it will be a profitable step:
leap up on that square, which is fitting for the
branán, the board is fittingly thine.”
Attributed to Maoil Eoin Mac Raith
Souvenir 05 Irish Stone Walls
Linen Towels
Designed and made by Superfolk
Print assistance by Print Block
Stone Wall Patterns is a collection of prints
inspired by the dry stone walls of Ireland.
Seemingly haphazard yet structurally sound,
the dry stone wall holds its form without
mortar. The expressive character of the wall
describes the underlying geology of the area.
Distinctive patterns emerge as you journey
through the countryside.
This collection of patterns (Aran, Burren
and Connemara) has been developed by
hand, through loose ink brush drawing and
relief block print methods before screenprinting on natural Irish linen.
Souvenir 06 Potato
Designed by Makers & Brothers
Made by Bronze Art Foundry
The hidden and humble root vegetable
introduced to Europe in the 16th Century
that has since become uniquely associated
with Ireland. The hardy tuber has a deep and
emotive narrative. The Lumper, once the
most prevalent food source in Ireland, is now
grown on only one farm.
An oddity in bronze, Lumper is a
memento with a wonderfully curious form
and is presented with an essay by celebrated
Irish chef Darina Allen.
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Souvenir 07 Sound
Designed and produced by Cathal
Loughnane & Peter Sheehan
ibi is a precious and personal object – a
souvenir – that allows an individual,
through a simple gesture, to be immediately
transported back to a time, a place and a
feeling. Special memories are collected
during a lifetime, forming an intimate record
of how we experience the world. Objects,
images and sounds trigger them. Small
things that are completely meaningless
to others have a heightened resonance
for the individual. Crafted from native Irish
hardwoods and Wexford linen, each ibi
contains a personal memory. Rotate gently
and listen.
Souvenir 08 Measc Muddle
Cocktail & Tool
Designed by WorkGroup
Made by Shane Holland
Direction by Makers & Brothers
Measc Muddle is an Irish sycamore and
brushed brass cocktail muddle, inspired
by the layered landscape of west Galway.
The muddle is the result of a collaboration
between design studio WorkGroup, Shane
Holland and America Village Apothecary. It
has been designed to work beautifully for any
drink where ingredients need to be crushed,
pounded or ground in the glass.
Measc Muddle is a specially created tool,
designed so that the markings on the shaft
can be used to make an Irish red clover,
bog myrtle and Irish whiskey cocktail:
the Móin Bhuí.
Souvenir 09 Tweed Key Ring
Designed and made by The Tweed Project
Packaging by Post Studio
A wool pom pom ring with a refined heritage
style. The Sally is a modern accessory
inspired by The Tweed Project’s friend who
wears and makes endless pom poms.
The Sally is made from 100% Irish
wool and created from the offcuts of The
Tweed Project’s Blanket Coats produced in
collaboration with Molloy & Sons in Donegal.
It continues The Tweed Project’s dialogue
with the slow fashion movement, where time
and craft take priority.
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Studio AAD
Cabinet of Modern Irish Life
Commissioned to develop a
visual narrative of Irish Design
Theme – Work
Studio AAD is a Dublin design consultancy
that works with clients of all sizes and from a
wide range of sectors, using design to help
them shape their projects. Building on a
project’s core strengths, Studio AAD works
across disciplines to deliver ideas, solve
problems and build tools that help clients
to explain, engage and make an impact.
The studio is founded on an entrepreneurial
spirit and for the first 5 years of business
the team also had a successful clothing
brand that sold in stores across Europe
and Asia, from Urban Outfitters to Colette
in Paris and Journal Standard in Tokyo. This
experience provided a unique and holistic
insight for the design practice. Passionate
advocates of creativity as a catalyst, the
Studio AAD team invests time and money in
the development of studio and community
projects such as the charity site Grow and
the social project Where We Are. Studio
AAD is also a founding member of the 100
Archive, a site dedicated to mapping the
quality and diversity of Irish communication
design with the aim of providing a
strong context for its development.
studioaad.com
Studio AAD is een ontwerpadviesbureau
dat interdisciplinair werkt om ideeën
te leveren, problemen op te lossen en
hulpmiddelen te bouwen die klanten helpen
uitleggen, uitnodigen en indruk maken.
Studio AAD is ook een van de oprichters
van 100Archive, een site gericht op het in
kaart brengen van de kwaliteit en diversiteit
van Ierse communicatievormgeving, met
als doel een sterke context te bieden
voor de ontwikkeling daarvan. Studio
AAD presenteert Connections, een
expositieoplossing in capsulevorm om
internationaal te toeren voor Irish
Design 2015.
Cabinet design by
John McLaughlin
Architects
John McLaughlin Architects is a design
focused studio based in Dun Laoghaire.
Their practice works at many different
scales and across a wide range of project
types. They are particularly interested in
connections between architecture and the
wider landscape and built environment.
They design masterplans, landscapes,
buildings, houses, public art and exhibitions.
Prior to establishing the practice in 2010,
John was director of architecture with the
Dublin Docklands Authority where he was
responsible for the design many of the public
spaces in the docklands including the Grand
Canal Harbour District.
Taking their inspiration from Irish modern
architects and designers, their designs have
been noted for their beauty, understated
elegance, and playfulness. They have
received many awards and have participated
in a number of exhibitions. John curated
the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture
Biennale 2012 titled Shifting Ground, and
(with Gary A. Boyd) he curated and designed
the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture
Biennale 2014 titled Infra Éireann.
johnmclaughlin.ie
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01 - Mcor 3D colour printed map
Mcor Technologies is an innovative Irish
manufacturer of the world’s most affordable,
full-colour and eco-friendly 3D printers. They
are the only 3D printers to use ordinary business
A4 and letter paper as the build material, a
choice that renders durable, stable and tactile
models. Established in 2004 with a talented
team of specialists in the area of 3D printing
hardware and software, Mcor’s vision is to
make 3D printing more accessible to everyone.
The company operates internationally from
offices in Ireland, the UK, America and APAC.
www.mcortechnologies.com
02 - TruCorp resuscitation dummy
TruCorp has been targeting the medical device,
medical simulation and medical education markets
for the last 10 years offering a highly realistic
training solution. The TruCorp range of products
developed in Belfast provide an invaluable tool
for training in the techniques of Laryngoscopy,
nasal and endo tracheal intubation, fibre optic
examinations, double lumen insertions, full use
of supraglottic devices, both needle and surgical
cricothryoidotomy and ENT surgical skills.
www.trucorp.com
03 - MooCall, designed by Dolmen
Dolmens’ unique approach is to support their
clients to discover ideas and then design and
develop them into customer experiences that will
leapfrog their competitors. This approach not only
generates intellectual property, it also delivers
internationally award winning service and product
designs that customers see significant value in.
Dolmen applies a Lean Development process
to get their clients faster to market in a very
competitive global marketplace. Dolmen works
with a range of clients, from ambitious start-ups
and SMEs who want to scale, right through to
Multinationals who want to discover and develop
next generation services and products. Dolmen
is established for 24 years and has an expert
team and international proven track record.
www.dolmen.ie
Theme - Play
04 - Tweed owl by Cleo
Cleo originally began in 1936 as a very small retail
outlet in Dublin, selling only handknit sweaters
from the Aran Islands. Nowadays, Cleo is a thriving
and very colourful business, located in Dublin City.
They specialise in Irish clothing made from natural
fibres. They sell handknit sweaters in a variety of
styles and colours for men, women and children as
well as coats, capes, linen blouses and shirts, hats,
bags, socks, tweed mice and a whole lot more.
www.cleo-ltd.com
05 - Willow Rattle by Makers & Brothers
Makers & Brothers is a project developed by
two brothers, Jonathan and Mark Legge. It is
an online retail venture founded on a belief in
the simple things; the handmade, objects of
integrity, contemporary vernaculars, a curation
of everyday design and craft. They define
craft as a process; a production by hand or
machine. Makers & Brothers are an international
destination with an Irish foundation and at all
times endeavour to sell objects of use; the
simple, beautiful and sometimes nicely odd.
www.makersandbrothers.com
06 - Fox by Saturday Workshop
Saturday Workshop is based in Dublin. They design
and manufacture timber products using traditional
skills and new technologies aided by a CNC router.
Edward O’Cleary is a structural engineer with
a background in boat-building and furniture
making. Iseult, his daughter is a designer.
www.saturdayworkshop.ie
Theme - Life
07 - Science stamps, design by Detail
Dublin based studio Detail specialise in design
for print, screen and environment. They believe
in analysis, simplicity and original output.
Their process is based on an understanding
of communication and its role for business,
organisations and individuals. Their projects
are large and small, simple and complex.
www.detail.ie
08 - Animation Ireland stamps
Animation Ireland is a group of leading Irish
animation companies working together
to promote Ireland’s world class sector
internationally. With millions of children
every week watching animated programmes
produced here, Ireland is a recognised leader
with talented and technically sophisticated
2D and 3D studios creating and producing
content for TV, Film, Games, Mobile and Apps.
www.animationireland.com
09 - Literature stamp postcard,
design by The Stone Twins
The Stone Twins are Irish born Declan and
Garech Stone, a creative partnership established
in the last year of the 20th Century. Since
then, The Stone Twins have built a reputation
for devising concept-driven, engaging and
witty design solutions. The work of The Stone
Twins has been broadly recognised, winning
awards at ADCN, D&AD, Dutch Design Awards,
European Design Awards, One Show, amongst
others. The work of The Stone Twins forms part
of the permanent collections of the CooperHewitt, New York, the Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam and their parents’ living room.
www.stonetwins.com
10 - Illustrators Ireland flyer,
design by Unthink
Unthink is a Dublin-based creative design
studio with a passion for creative design. Since
2006, they’ve been creating innovative, fresh
and unique print and digital products, as well
as complete branding systems for a wide range
of national and international clients. As an
agency, they are inquisitive, open minded, and
approach every new project with a sense of fun.
www.unthink.ie
11 - Keep Sketch notebook, design
by Dave Comiskey
Dave Comiskey is a graphic designer
and illustrator based in Dublin.
www.davecomiskey.com
12 - Calendar by Project Twins
for Irish Design Shop
The Project Twins are James and Michael
Fitzgerald, an Irish based graphic art duo.
They work together in a range of disciplines
including art, design and illustration on both
personal and commercial projects. Their
illustration work has been commissioned by
various magazines and agencies in Ireland,
UK, Europe, America, Asia and Australia.
www.theprojecttwins.com
13 - Science Gallery Annual
Report, design by Detail
Detail have developed a number of reports
for the Science Gallery based in Dublin, an
innovative model of gallery now developing
new venues accross the globe.
www.detail.ie
14 - 3FE take away cup,
design by Conor & David
Conor & David is a Dublin based studio which
creates useful, beautiful graphic design, founded
by Conor Nolan and David Wall. They believe in the
importance of making things. They think that the
process and outcomes should be both tangible
and enlightening. They see design as a way to
create and define the connections that shape our
world. Their work connects audiences to ideas,
customers to products and people to each other.
www.conoranddavid.com
Theme - Fix
15 – Sugru
FormFormForm Ltd is the registered UK based
company behind Sugru which was jointly founded
by Irish inventor Jane ní Dhulchaointigh and
entrepreneur Roger Ashby, in October 2004. In
response to an overwhelmingly positive response
from North America, the company established
a US subsidiary in 2011 - Sugru, Inc. It now
fulfills all of its North American orders from
its distribution centre in Michigan. In autumn
2012 FormFormForm began distributing to
resellers in Germany and Scandinavia, and
the company is now embarking on exciting
expansion plans in other territories.
www.sugru.com
16 - OBEO food waste box
Established in Dublin, by Kate Cronin an
experienced packaging and product designer
and Liz Fingleton a chartered accountant, the
Obeo food waste box is the easiest, cleanest,
niftiest way to deal with food waste. Obeo
customers are part of something bigger.
Every pack of Obeo they use diverts 10kg of
waste from landfill, so they’re helping to save
the world, one little brown box at a time.
www.weareobeo.com
Theme – Eat
17 - Jameson St. Patricks Day 2015
edition, label by Steve Simpson
For 30 years Dublin based illustrator Steve
Simpson has been applying his multidisciplinary skills to creative projects for a
diverse range of clients right across the globe.
Steve’s innovative, award winning approach
to graphic design, typography and illustration
is built on fresh thinking, traditional skills and
a dose of fun. His bottle for Jameson’s Irish
whiskey captures the soul, warmth and wit of
the city where Jameson was first distilled in
1780, with images of Dublin landmarks, such
as O’Connell Bridge and Trinity College.
www. stevesimpson.prosite.com
18 - Trivet by Superfolk
Superfolk is an independent design studio
based in Westport which focuses on the craft
of production, both handmade and industrial.
They create objects and furniture which refer
to Ireland’s heritage of making, playfully
referencing a way of life rooted in the land,
its animals and weather whilst also striving
to emulate the sensitivity and sustainability
of the vernacular approach. The studio works
with locally sourced Irish materials and strives
for innovation in its approach to natural
resources such as wool, wood and leather.
www.superfolk.com
19 - Elements Low Glass by J.HILL’s Standard
J.HILL’s Standard is a maker of contemporary
cut crystal objects, crafted by hand, using
centuries-old knowledge passed down through
generations of skilled craftsmen. J.HILL’s
Standard makes full use of the extraordinary
levels of skills in the Waterford region; handcut
crystal is a craft synomous with Ireland and,
in particular, with the area around Waterford.
All pieces of J.HILL’s Standard glass are handcut in Waterford by two master craftsmen,
who between them have over a century of
experience in the art of hand cutting crystal.
www.jhillsstandard.com
20 - Cuttings grappa glass by
J.HILL’s Standard
See above
21 - Cake Café napkins, design by Pony
Pony Ltd. is a graphic design studio founded
at the beginning of the 21st century. It is
the creative collaboration of Niall Sweeney
(Dublin) and Nigel Truswell (Sheffield). Based in
Whitechapel, London, they work in Britain, Ireland
and internationally. Output at the studio ranges
from popular culture to the avant-garde, from
high-brow to low-brow, creating for print, screen,
three dimensions, sound and performance. Their
work has been published, exhibited, performed,
collected and screened around the world. Their
designs for the renowned Cake Café in Dublin
celebrate baking and Irish artisanal food, with
a heritage firmly rooted in a contemporary
world and the pleasures of modern Ireland,
through an aesthetic driven by the imprecise
geometries of baking to an electro-beat.
www.ponybox.co.uk
Theme – Inhabit
22 - Quarry House by Clancy Moore
architects, images by Alice Clancy
Established by Andrew Clancy and Colm Moore
in 2007, Clancy Moore Architects is a practice
dedicated to creating beautiful spaces and objects
through an open and collaborative process with
clients and craftspeople. The Irish practice is
involved in a wide range of work from small and
large domestic to public and commercial projects,
and has a strong track record of delivering high
quality, sustainable architecture in all settings.
The quality of the resultant work has been borne
out by numerous awards and publications.
www.clancymoore.com
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23 - Jeffry’s House by Emily Mannion
and Thomas O’Brien, Ards
Forest Park, Co. Donegal
Thomas O’Brien is an architect living and
working in Ireland. He studied architecture at
University College Dubin, and graduated with
honours in 2005. He obtained a Professional
Diploma (Architecture) through the Royal
Institute of Architects of Ireland (RIAI) and
University College Dublin in May 2011. He is
a registered architect and a member of the
Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland. Since
graduation Thomas has been fortunate to gain
experience with diverse practices, such as de
Paor Architects, A2 Architects, and Dorman
Architects, and worked on a range of projects from
educational buildings, interior fit outs, domestic
extensions and new builds. He has recently
begun practicing independently as totobArk.
Emily Mannion is an artist born in Donegal
in 1985. She graduated with a BA(hons)
degree in Fine Art from the University of
Huddersfield in 2007. She completed a Digital
Residency in Firestation Artist Studios in 2010
and subsequently undertook a residency
in Templebar Gallery and Studios with the
interdisciplinary group Terraform. Recent
shows include ‘We had an idea about the
future’, 2012, NCH, Earlsfort Terrace Dublin,
and ‘Constellations’, 2011, curated by Emma
Lucy O’Brien, Visual Centre for Contemporary
Art, Carlow; She currently lives in Dublin.
Images by Carla Killeen, Catalyst DNA. © IAF
www.totobark.com
24 - House 1 by TAKA architects,
images by Alice Clancy
TAKA is an architectural practice based in
Dublin, Ireland. Their practice is focused on
creating buildings, places and moments which
have a distinct character. They have a careful
and economic approach to materials and
construction, and a first-principles approach
to sustainability. They collaborate closely with
clients, professional consultants and expert
makers to ensure the ambitions of projects
are met and exceeded. A continuing level of
excellence in the built work of the practice is
recognised by multiple national and international
awards and worldwide publication. TAKA have
experience in a wide range of project types
ranging from domestic extensions to commercial
and public buildings. TAKA is led by partners
Alice Casey ARB(UK) and Cian Deegan MRIAI.
www.taka.ie
Theme - Read
25 - Eoin McHugh - Augury book from Douglas
Hyde Gallery, design by Peter Maybury
Peter Maybury works as an artist, graphic
designer, and musician. With formal training in
visual communications in Dublin and London, his
creative practice has expanded to encompass
design for print and screen, wayfinding systems,
artworks for exhibition, sound, video and curation.
Peter’s holistic approach sees him work at the
interstices of several disciplines. With a track
record from nearly 20 years working to the highest
degree of excellence in visual communication and
design for print and screen, his broad experience
has developed into extensive knowledge taking
in all aspects of design, editorial, pre-press and
printing. Peter has wide-ranging experience
in working with creative practitioners and
institutions, editors and curators, including over
80 individual artists publications, and more than
40 group show publications, for clients in Ireland,
Belgium, Luxembourg, UK, US, Italy and Canada.
www.petermaybury.com
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26 - A Bit Lost by Chris Haughton
Chris Haughton is an Irish designer and children’s
book author. He has been a freelance illustrator
for 12 years. His interest in fair trade drew him
into working with a number of non-profit projects
and in 2007 he was listed in Time Magazine’s
DESIGN 100 for the design work he undertook
for People Tree. Since then he has created a
number of children’s books, with his first book
A Bit Lost being translated into 20 languages
and winning numerous international awards
including the Dutch Picture Book of the Year.
Oh No George! came out in 2012 and won the
Junior Magazine Picturebook of the year award,
and his most recent book SHH! We have a plan
won the AOI award for children’s books in 2014.
www.chrishaughton.com
27 - The Dublin Review 58, design
by Atelier David Smith
Established in 2000, Atelier David Smith is an
independent design studio that works in the
public and cultural sector, creating awardwinning work for national and international
clients. David has lectured publicly on his
own practice and on wider issues concerning
graphic design and has contributed to Eye –
the International Review of Graphic Design.
International recognition includes awards
and commendations from the Type Directors
Club New York, Association Typographique
Internationale (AtypI) and the International
Society of Typographic Designers. His work for
the Asko Schönberg Ensembles (designed and
developed at UNA [Amsterdam]) received the
Nederlands Huisstijl Prize and a Premier award
for typography from the ISTD. National awards
include numerous commendations from the
Institute of Designers in Ireland (IDI); and a number
of bronze, silver and gold awards from ICAD.
www.atelier.ie
28 - SET zine, design by Paul Guinan
Paul Guinan is a senior designer at Form, a
Dublin based branding and communications
practice founded in 2005. Their projects are
realised through a 4 stage process of discovery,
definition, development and delivery. Driven
by research and strategically framed their
outcomes are implemented through print, digital,
motion and environmental touch-points, with
dialogue and the exchange of knowledge core
to their collaborative partnership approach.
www.form.ie
Theme – Wear
29 - Woven Lambswool childs hat by Elks
Elks design exquisite children’s clothes, made
exclusively by hand in Ireland. Using materials
like Donegal tweed, beautiful Irish linen, alpaca
wool and finest merino, Elks create remarkably
well-made clothes with a depth of cultural history
connected to Ireland’s past and present. Their
designs are an expression of the urban and
rural, the wild and constructed. Founder Lucy
Clarke is a musician and mother of two. After
playing in seminal all-girl rock group Chicks (she
played Glastonbury the day she finished her
Leaving Cert, and the girls were known for their
colourful handmade image), Lucy went on to study
Philosophy and now has two children. Elks work
with local knitters, weavers and seamstresses
to produce their designs, and have developed
a sustainable, handmade children’s clothing
brand for children throughout the world.
www.elks.ie
30 - Bow tie by Brendan Joseph
Distilling precious moments and beautiful
places, Brendan Joseph makes each scarf, shawl
& bow-tie by hand in Ireland, the home of his
inspiration, working in silk, cashmere and linen.
The colours in each scarf are the result of an
innovative design methodology by which Brendan
draws his inspiration directly from scenes and
sources in the environment around him – the
vibrant city of Dublin and the beautiful natural
landscapes of Ireland. Brendan’s passion for
colour, pattern, quality and craftsmanship is clear
in his work as he explores, distils and translates
what he sees in the world around him into his
handmade scarves. Although the colours in his
designs are drawn purely from nature, they bring
out the unusual and the unnoticed - the intensely
vibrant lichen on warm grey rocks by the softblue sea at Sandymount Strand, or the speckled
pink and blue of the Georgian and Victorian
architecture in the area around his studio.
www.brendanjoseph.com
31 - Satchel by The Atlantic Equipment Project
The harsh beauty of the Irish Atlantic coast
breeds a special kind of folk. A community of
individuals exploring the high roads and byroads,
the muddy fields and bogs, in search of elusive
perfection. The Atlantic Equipment (AE) project,
founded by Ashleigh Smith, is about designing
and building long-lasting, quality equipment that
will serve this community of adventurers and
explorers. AE packs are designed with durability
and function as primary requirements, in order
to support experience and adventure amongst
your wilderness. The project is about the coastal
communities of the West of Ireland, where a new,
quality manufacture base can bring prosperity and
further potential. AE build quality packs, by hand, in
their workshop in the West of Ireland. In prioritizing
local resources and keeping supply chains as
small as possible, their ambition is to maintain and
grow a sustainable business ethos - investing in
people with skills, keeping production small, and
ensuring attention to detail and craftsmanship.
www.atlanticequipmentproject.com
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Scott Burnett of Studio AAD talks about
Irish design and the development of
Cabinet of Modern Irish Life
It’s like a window on Ireland – I wanted to
bring breadth to how people understand
Irish Design. I’m thinking of it as a glimpse
of modern Ireland through the lens of
design. I imagined it like a kitchen dresser,
the eclectic backdrop to family life; and that
let me bring in quite disparate things that
nevertheless have a relationship through
how we use them, how they give us a sense
of who we are.
The cabinet is very broad, in a similar
way to Connections, the capsule exhibition
we’ve made for ID2015 to tour embassies
around the world. People who view it may
not know much about Ireland, or they
may have a ‘diddley-eye’, more folk based
perception of what Irish design is, so we
wanted to create an honest collection that
shows modern Ireland as it is. It’s a little
portal that gives a wider sense.
It’s been curated like an insider’s guide,
so we’ve included ephemera: flyers and
books; and well-designed everyday items,
rather than just up-on-a-pedestal objects
of desire. It’s quite broad, covering many
aspects of modern life – design for work,
play, life, to wear, to inhabit. That’s what I
like about design: the real everyday stuff.
I’m a big advocate of design as a way to
make things better, a lot of it is invisible and
those can be the very best things.
I studied Visual Communications in
Aberdeen in Scotland, then I worked in
photography in Glasgow and London
before coming to Dublin in 1998 to work
in design agencies. I started Angry, a
clothing company in 2000. We were selling
in London, Paris and Tokyo, and even
though the brand was successful, we knew
nothing about the business of fashion,
so we weren’t making money. We set up
Studio AAD in 2004 to work on branding,
design and multidisciplinary projects.
I’m also involved in the 100Archive
(100Archive.com), mapping the landscape
of communication design in contemporary
Ireland. The project creates a context to
show how varied design can be.
Some of the things in the cabinet are
amazing. Like the award winning Moocall,
by Dolmen. Apparently one of the hardest
things in cow farming is getting the vet
to the cow at the right time to deliver
the calf. It’s a dangerous time for the
animal and even experts could miss the
moment. So Dolmen created this device
that tracks the movement of the cow’s tail,
and sends a text message when calving
is about to begin. Moocall and Mcor’s 3D
printing technologies are these brilliantly
unexpected stories of ingenuity in an Irish
context.
On the other hand, there’s a copy of the
Dublin Review. It’s a literature periodical
designed by Atelier David Smith, and it’s
just gorgeous. They’ve been doing that
since 2000, and it’s elegantly laid out
and beautifully appropriate. Ireland has
such a strong reputation for literature,
but not everyone would put the effort into
designing a periodical that well, it’s a joy to
see it.
We also have one of the Douglas
Hyde Gallery’s publications, an annual
report from the brilliant Science Gallery
and a range of other Irish designed
books. There’s been a renaissance in
Irish children’s books over the past few
years, and Chris Haughton’s ‘A Bit Lost’ is
beautiful.
I wanted to get away from the clichés of
traditional design, but we’ve also included
modern makers with a basis in craft, like
The Atlantic Equipment Project, who make
hardwearing gear for hikers and surfers
from their studios in Sligo, Elks who make
lovely clothes for kids, and Superfolk.
There’s napkins designed by Pony for
the Cake Café, and a crystal glass from
Waterford’s J.HILL’S Standard. There’s
a richness to these pieces, that pick up
on a design heritage that had fallen into
abeyance for a time. A new vernacular has
been growing over the last six years that is
world class but also proud of its heritage
and tradition. These are the things that
form the backdrop to Modern Irish Life.
Working in the industry today, I know
so many colleagues making brilliant
things. That’s what excites me. ID2015
has already sparked a lot of conversations
within the industry. The next stage is for
us to create the foundation to bring those
conversations to the wider public. That’s
the best legacy for when this year is over.
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Think & Son
With degrees in Visual Communication
and Film Production, Annie Atkins cut her
teeth in filmmaking on the crew of historical
drama The Tudors, making vintage-style
graphic props for use on set. She went on
to specialise in the creation of artefacts,
signage and documents on a wide range
of period productions. After working on
Oscar-nominated animation The Boxtrolls,
Annie was called in by Wes Anderson as Lead
Graphic Designer on The Grand Budapest
Hotel, which went on to win the Academy
Award for Production Design. Annie spent
most of 2014 working on Spielberg’s
historical thriller Bridge of Spies, set in
1960s New York and Berlin and scripted by
the Coen brothers. She is now back home
working from her studio in Dublin, where
she is also a photographer and film poster
designer. In 2011, Annie first collaborated
with Eoghan Nolan, an award-winning
copywriter and former Creative Director of
McCann-Erickson, Irish International BBDO
and Leo Burnett. In 2011, he founded Brand
Artillery. The campaign created by Brand
Artillery for Glasnevin Cemetery won the only
Gold Bell given for Irish advertising at the
prestigious Institute of Creative Advertising
& Design (ICAD) Awards 2014, also taking
Silver & Bronze. Those top honours marked
26 years since Eoghan’s work was first
recognised at ICAD. The enormously popular
Glasnevin posters have become collectors’
items and were featured in the documentary
One Million Dubliners” which took its name
from the campaign. Annie and Eoghan now
work together under the name Think & Son.
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Annie Atkins is gespecialiseerd in het
creëren van artefacten, borden en
documenten voor een brede reeks
periodeproducties. Ze heeft gewerkt aan
het voor een Oscar genomineerde The Box
Trolls als hoofd grafische vormgeving en
aan de film The Grand Budapest Hotel,
welke een Oscar heeft gewonnen voor
productievormgeving. Eoghan Nolan is een
prijswinnende copywriter en de voormalige
directeur van McCann-Erikson, Irish
International BBDO en Leo Burnett.
Eoghan werkte voor het eerst samen met
Annie in 2011. Ze werken samen onder de
naam Think & Son.
Seymours Irish Biscuits
Seymours Irish Biscuits is a family-owned
specialist bakery producing individually
hand-cut biscuits made in small batches.
The bakery in Bandon, West Cork is about
8km west of the family dairy farm that
supplies the fresh milk and creamery butter
for the biscuits, giving a superlative taste
that no other biscuit bakery can match. The
bakery was set up in Bandon in 2008 and
today the small team of bakers supplies
Seymours’ sweet and savoury biscuits to
Ireland’s finest food stores.
Seymours Irish Biscuits is een
gespecialiseerde familiebakkerij die
individueel handgevormde biscuits
produceert in kleine partijen. De bakkerij in
West-Cork gebruikt verse melk en romige
boter van hun eigen zuivelboerderij voor de
biscuits, wat een superieure smaak geeft,
ongeëvenaard door enige andere biscuit
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Think & Son in collaboration with Seymours Irish Biscuits
Featured Work:
Packaged biscuits, baked by Philip O’Connor
of Seymours Irish Biscuits in West Cork. The
biscuits are wrapped in sheets of a fictional
local newspaper and packaged in wooden
French poplar boxes, to be given away at
Liminal as keepsakes. The biscuit labels were
designed to illustrate three parts of Ireland:
coastal (Skibbereen), urban (Stoneybatter),
and Northern (Cushendall). Food packaging
from around the world features all kinds of
Chinese whispers and legendary animals
such as the iconic lion on the tin of Lyle’s
Golden Syrup. Think & Son’s biscuit
packaging features illustrations of missing
cats, tugs of war, and slain fish that all hail
from local tall stories told around Ireland.
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Collaborative Process:
Specialising in designing graphic props for
period filmmaking, Annie Atkins steps into
the shoes of the character she’s designing
for rather than designing as a contemporary
graphic designer. If she were a local baker,
what stories would she commemorate on
her biscuit packaging? She called in master
storyteller Eoghan Nolan and together
they came up with three slices of local Irish
legend and urban myth, which were then
sent to scenic artist Alan Lambert to be
interpreted as full-colour illustrations.
Materials:
Paint, paper, printing, round French poplar
boxes, biscuits.
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The Stone Twins
The Stone Twins are twin brothers
Declan and Garech Stone (born 1970,
Dublin). The work of their Amsterdambased design agency is noted for its
unconventional, engaging and witty
qualities and has been recognised by
industry awards such as D&AD, Dutch
Design Awards and European Design.
Passionate and assertive about design,
The Stone Twins are the authors of Logo
R.I.P., a book that commemorates 50
defunct logos. Declan and Garech regularly
contribute to design publications and blogs
such as Eye magazine, the international
review of graphic design, DesignWeek,
and for 10 years had a monthly column
in the Dutch magazine Communicatie. In
addition, the duo was Head of the ‘Man and
Communication’ department at Design
Academy Eindhoven from 2008–2013.
They currently provide lectures and
workshops on visual communication at
several international design schools.
The Stone Twins work is included in
the permanent collections of the CooperHewitt New York, the Stedelijk Museum in
Amsterdam and their parents’ living room.
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De Stone Twins zijn tweelingbroers Declan
en Garech Stone. Het werk van hun
ontwerpbureau in Amsterdam staat bekend
om zijn onconventionele, uitnodigende
en grappige kwaliteiten en is erkend bij
uitreikingen van brancheprijzen zoals D&AD,
Dutch Design Awards en European Design.
De Stone Twins presenteren ‘Double Dutch
Irish Blarney’, een pocketboek dat de vele
culturele en sociale verschillen tussen
Nederland en Ierland viert.
Featured Work:
ID2015 commissioned The Stone Twins
to develop a concept that reflects their
perception and unique perspective of
Irish and Dutch culture. The resulting
booklet, Double Dutch – Irish Blarney
is an object to covet. It offers humorous
observations on the nuances and
idiosyncrasies of Dutch and Irish life.
Materials:
Linen cover with fluorescent inks and
silver thread stitching.
Booklet size is 80mm x 120mm.
Derek Wilson
Belfast-based ceramicist Derek Wilson
graduated from the University of Ulster
in 2007 with an MA in Applied Arts. He
runs a successful contemporary studio
practice that focuses on producing a range
of hand-thrown porcelain tableware as
well as a selection of sculptural objects.
He has exhibited extensively throughout
the UK, Ireland and Europe and his work
has featured in Wallpaper magazine’s
‘Handmade’ Milan exhibition. His practice
as a ceramicist draws inspiration from a
diverse range of sources – from mid-century
British Constructivism to the history of the
ceramic industry in Europe and Asia, with an
aim to push the boundaries of a traditional
and diverse art form through playing with
its aesthetics, materiality and processes.
Derek uit Belfast voert een succesvolle
hedendaagse studio die zich richt op
het produceren van handgemaakt
serviesgoed en een selectie
beeldhouwwerken. Hij heeft veelvuldig
geëxposeerd in het Verenigd Koninkrijk,
Ierland en Europa.
derekwilsonceramics.com
Featured work:
Materials:
A curated collection of studio ceramic
pieces that reference functional elements
yet retain a sculptural aesthetic. The
selective colour palette and quality of
finish and form reflect local elements
within the historical landscape where the
pieces are produced. Their colour, shape
and materiality reference the ideas of
restraint, containment and minimalism.
All pieces are hand thrown; some are
made in sections and then constructed
when the clay is leather-hard. Pieces with an
engobe finish are fired up to five times with
layers of the engobe painted on between
each firing until the required quality and
depth of finish are achieved.
Porcelain and stoneware, high-fired with an
engobe finish and glazed interiors.
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VFX Association of Ireland
vfxai.com
Visual FX Association of Ireland (VFXAI)
presenteert Ireland als centrum
van excellentie en een bestemming
met belangrijk VFX-talent. VFXAI
vertegenwoordigd Ierlands toonaangevende
VFX-bedrijven, Egg, Piranha Bar, Screen
Scene en Windmill Lane. Het werk van
de leden is bekroond bij internationale
prijsuitreikingen, waaronder de VES, Emmy’s
en Bafta’s, waarmee het fantastische
creatieve talent en de productie-expertise
wordt erkend die beschikbaar is in Ierland.
Egg Post Production is a dynamic and
innovative company with a proven track
record in all areas of post production and
VFX located in the heart of Georgian Dublin.
It was founded in 2004 by Gareth
Young and Gary Shortall, bringing their
vision of using cutting-edge technology
and workflows with a focus on creativity
to deliver high-quality finishing and VFX
to the Irish media industry. Following
highly successful careers as editors,
their vast knowledge of the industry and
post production processes ensure the
best possible service to their clients.
Their state of the art facilities include two
4K grading suites with cinema calibrated
VFXAI showcases Ireland as a centre of
excellence and a destination with significant
VFX talent. Representing Ireland’s leading
VFX companies such as Egg, Piranha Bar,
Screen Scene and Windmill Lane, the work of
its member companies has been recognised
at international award ceremonies including
the VES Awards, the Emmys and the BAFTAs,
acknowledging the superb creative talent
and production expertise available in Ireland.
Egg Post
Production
projection, a comfortable finishing suite, 2
sound dubbing studios, 40 VFX seats and
8 spacious offline rooms. At the heart of the
facility is an Isilon storage system that allows
seamless workflows across the entire facility.
Their work is consistently nominated
for awards with credits including Emmy,
BAFTA and IFTA winning shows.
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Piranha Bar
Piranha Bar is a creative production studio
built around a full service post facility. Their
roster of directors and studio of animators,
3D experts, flame artists and production
specialists all share a passion for effective
storytelling.
From live-action to animation and
high-end VFX every executional technique
supports ‘The Story’ resulting in engaging,
beautifully crafted work that speaks,
sometimes whispers and occasionally
screams. From inception to execution,
Piranha Bar encourages a collaborative
approach to the creative process and
looks to workshop concepts, techniques
and media options with clients. In addition
to the traditional production company
workflow, Piranha Bar offers a collective
approach, where every solution is explored
and delivered in-house. As the world rapidly
shifts focus from one medium to another and
across multiple communication platforms,
Piranha Bar seeks to explore the concepts
and techniques that result in true originality.
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Screen Scene
Established 30 years ago, Screen Scene
VFX and post production facilities is
a cornerstone of the Irish film and
television industry. It has grown over
time and with an award winning team
of 60 people, 50 post production
suites and a VFX facility with 40 seats.
Screen Scene has established Ireland
as a VFX and post production centre
of excellence with the capacity to
deliver on the international stage.
Screen Scene is one of most experienced
suppliers of TV dramas and feature film VFX
and post production in the UK and Ireland.
They are currently working on TV shows
‘The Frankenstein Chronicles’ for ITV
and ‘Ripper Street’ Season 4 for Amazon
Prime, and the feature film ‘I.T.’ directed
by John Moore staring Pierce Brosnan.
Earlier this year Screen Scene’s work
on ‘Ripper Street’ Season 3 received both
BAFTA and VES nominations for best VFX.
In 2014 Screen Scene VFX received
a VES nomination for best VFX for the
Sky One drama ‘Moonfleet’. In 2011
Screen Scene’s VFX work on series
one of ‘Game of Thrones’ was Emmynominated and picked up a VES award.
Recent credits include ‘Room’,
‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 5, ‘Sing
Street’, ‘A Dangerous Fortune’, ‘Die Hard
5’, ‘Last Days On Mars’, ‘Life Of Crime’,
‘Ice Cream Girls’, ‘Loving Miss Hatto’.
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Windmill Lane
Windmill Lane VFX specialises in creating
high-end visual effects for feature film and
television. Established in 2010, Windmill
Lane collaborates with directors and
producers to realise their vision and produce
computer imagery of the highest standard.
A wealth of talent and experience in all
aspects of the industry allows the company
to work efficiently in an environment that
is both relaxed and creatively stimulating.
Windmill have worked on feature films
such as ‘Lockout’, produced by Luc Besson’s
EuropaCorp, and Jake Platrow’s ‘Young
Ones’, as well as the TV dramas ‘Titanic:
Blood & Steel’, ‘Vikings’, ‘Penny Dreadful’,
and ‘Dracula Untold’ for Universal Pictures.
Current projects include
‘Jadotville’, starring Jamie Dornan,
and ‘The Secret Scripture’ directed
by Jim Sheridan and starring Rooney
Mara and Vanessa Redgrave.
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James Morris of Windmill
Lane talks about
his career in digital
production
I was involved in the student drama society ‘Players’ in Trinity
College, and in a band too, with the composer Shaun Davey.
I’d studied history, and even though that was a good thing – it
teaches you to marshal your thoughts – there were no jobs
when I graduated in 1970. So I went over to London, and found
my way to a cutting room in Soho. As soon as I got sight of a film
editor at work, I thought ‘that’s for me!’.
I became a trainee, working my way up to a job at Roger
Cherill’s, which was the top editing company at the time. I loved
film, but didn’t want to spend the rest of my working life in
London, so I turned down two job offers to come back to Dublin
and set up my own editing company. Then Russ Russell, another
college friend, joined me and after a short while we built a music
recording studio. The timing was perfect.
Back then, if bands in the UK had a hit, they’d be told to
make another record, but also to leave the country for tax
reasons. Meanwhile, Paul McGuinness, who’d also been in
college with us, said, “I manage a band”, and he brought in
U2. MTV started up and suddenly every band needed a video.
We were the only people who had a film studio alongside a
recording studio.
By the late 1980s, we couldn’t grow any more in Ireland,
so I was travelling to London each week, and with the help of
Paul and U2 we then set up a post production facility in Soho
and called it The Mill. The Mill was a dedicated commercials
facility but digital technologies came along and made it feasible
to work digitally on film. The Mill approached Ridley and Tony
Scott, and set up Mill Film in 1998. It went well and led to
winning the VFX Oscar for Gladiator. I left The Mill around 2005
and the company has gone on to great success in New York, LA
and Chicago.
Throughout all this Windmill has always been my base and a
few years ago two talented Irish film makers, Stephen St. Leger
and James Mather persuaded Luc Besson to make Lockout
with them, and they asked me to set up a VFX studio in Dublin.
We rented a warehouse in Sandyford, took on a team from our
contacts, and delivered the film.
Now we’re building a viable, sustainable VFX base in
Ireland. It’s a tough market; the competition isn’t with other
companies here, it’s with competitors abroad, so we’ve reached
out to Screen Scene, Egg and Piranha Bar to form a collective,
The Visual Effects Association of Ireland (VFXAI). Geography
isn’t an issue any more, and we’re working together to put
ourselves on the map, getting the message out that we can
team up to handle scale if a suitable project comes along.
Digital production is leading content creation around the
world. We have really great talent in Ireland, we’re writing our
own software, coming up with our own angles. In the past, the
majority of Irish creative talent was picked up by big companies
working elsewhere, but there are many who’d love to come
back. We all want to work on something challenging and good –
now we can give them a chance.
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Zero-G
Zero-G is a Dublin-based design practice
engaged in research, strategy and design.
Founded in 2004 by Ciarán Ó Gaora, Zero-G
has earned a reputation as a creative partner
for businesses who want to leverage design
to build their brand, facilitate innovation
and inspire meaningful change in their
organisations. This has been achieved by
creating stories that focus purpose and
meaning, creating tools that empower
employees to look at opportunities with fresh
eyes, and demonstrating the power of design
to make things better for the user, be they
customer, employee, audience or citizen.
Current projects include a primary
healthcare development in Nebraska, retail
innovation in Maryland, brand repositioning
with a national retail group in Ireland, and
global brand strategy and management tools
with a Washington DC-based NGO.
Clients include: Amnesty International;
Áras an Úachtaráin; Bord Gáis Energy; Bord
Bia; Barry’s Tea; Concern Worldwide (IRL/
US/UK); Culture Ireland; Design & Crafts
Council of Ireland; Elevation Partners
(USA); Fáilte Ireland; Forfás; Irish Museum
of Modern Art; Mumbai International
Airport (INDIA); Musgraves Marketplace;
National Digital Research Centre; Science
Gallery(IRL); Special Olympics International
(USA); Smurfit Kappa; SSP (UK); Storyful;
TCC; The Wills Group (USA); Think Whole
Person Healthcare (USA); Tourism Ireland;
UDG Healthcare; Vodafone.
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Zero-G is een vormgevingsbureau uit
Dublin dat zich bezighoudt met onderzoek,
strategie en vormgeving. Met creatieve
partners over de hele wereld ontwikkelen
ze verhalen die richting geven aan doel
en betekenis, waarbij ze hulpmiddelen
creëren die medewerkers in staat stellen
om met een frisse blik naar mogelijkheden
te kijken en de kracht demonstreren van
vormgeving om dingen beter te maken voor
de gebruiker, of ze nu klant, medewerker,
publiek of burger zijn. Zero-G presenteert
een speciaal vervaardigde infographic
die de ontwikkeling uitbeeldt van Ierlands
wetgevende, gerechtelijke, bestuurlijke
en lokale overheidsstructuren sinds de
grondwet van 1937.
Featured Work:
The Map of The State is an evolving graphic
work that takes Ireland’s 1937 constitution
as its starting point. This document outlines
the legislative, judicial, executive and local
governmental structures of state. Just as
these state structures have evolved over the
intervening decades to become complex,
layered and intertwined, so too will the
map as available information is layered on.
The shape and structure of the map will be
informed by the available information and the
challenges of displaying this information in a
single view.
Over the duration of the project the
map will include greater detail on the
departments, agencies and bodies that make
up the Irish state in 2015. The early stages
of the work will consist of a printed graphic
depiction of the evolving map before literally
being made concrete.
There is currently no single diagram
of Irish state institutions and associated
bodies making it difficult, if not impossible,
to identify roles, responsibilities and
relationships. The project is inspired by the
role that the Government Digital Services
(GDS) played in increasing access to, and
understanding of, government services
in the United Kingdom. GDS continue to
demonstrate how the design process can
be used to affect change at a fundamental
level from policy and structure to citizen
engagement and cross-departmental
collaboration. gds.blog.gov.uk
A key information reference point is the
Irish State Administration Database (ISAD),
a project developed as part of the ‘Mapping
the Irish State’ project located at the Geary
Institute, University College Dublin.
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Collaborative Process:
The core Zero-G project team has
collaborated with a range of partners
as the project unfolded. These partners
have helped to access and gather
information, parse it out and structure it,
and ultimately present it in an engaging
and accessible form. Collaborators
include Emer Coleman, former Deputy
Director for Digital Engagement at
Government Digital Services in the UK.
Materials:
Digital print. 1500mm x 3000mm.
“A country or a nation-state is the ultimate
collaborative venture. Understanding the
roles, responsibilities and relationships at
play within that collaboration is the first step
towards making that collaboration better.”
Ciarán Ó Gaora, Zero-G
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About Irish Design 2015:
Liminal showreel
Irish Design 2015 (ID2015) is a year-long initiative backed by the
Irish government exploring, promoting and celebrating Irish design
throughout Ireland and internationally in order to drive job creation,
grow exports and increase competitiveness. The programme
for the year includes presenting the work of Irish designers at
high-profile events in design capitals including London, Paris,
Eindhoven, Milan, New York, Chicago and Hong Kong/Shenzhen.
ID2015 is being convened by the Design & Crafts Council of
Ireland (DCCoI), in collaboration with partner organisations, on
behalf of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, the
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Enterprise Ireland.
ID2015 partners include: Founding Partners – MCO Projects;
Accommodation Partners – The Doyle Collection; Venue Partners
– OPW; Exhibition Partners – DAA; Technology Partners – IBM;
Transport Partners – Bus Éireann Expressway; Construction
Partners – SISK.
Liminal – Irish Design at the Threshold
Dezeen
For further information and high res images (via Dropbox link),
please contact:
Ogham Wall Timelapse
Glasshopper – Nik Eagland
Animation Ireland Short Films
Coda — And Maps and Plans
After You — Brown Bag Films
Somewhere Down the Line & The Ledge End
of Phil (from accounting) — Cartoon Saloon
The Missing Scarf — Eoin Duffy
Deadly — Kavaleer Productions
Fear of Flying — Lovely Productions
VFX Showreel
Windmill Lane VFX
Egg
Piranha Bar
Screen Scene VFX
Cristina Belmonte
Sandford PR — [email protected]
www.sandfordpr.com
Animation Ireland Showreel
And Maps and Plans
Belly Creative
Blacknorth Studio
Boulder Media
Brown Bag Films
Cartoon Saloon
Dancing Girl Productions
David O’ Reilly
Double Z Enterprises
Geronimo
Giant Animation
Igloo Films
JAM Media
Kavaleer Productions
Keg Kartoonz
Lovely Productions
Magpie & Media
Mayfly Films
Moetion Films
Prickly Pear Productions
Still Films
Telegael
Tidal Films
Treehouse Republic
Wiggleywoo
Zanita Films
Over Irish Design 2015:
Design Library
Photo Credits
Irish Design 2015 (ID2015) is een jaar durend initiatief
ondersteund door de Ierse overheid om Ierse vormgeving te
ontdekken, promoten en vieren in Ierland en internationaal,
om banen te creëren, de export te stuwen en de
concurrentievaardigheid te vergroten. Het jaarprogramma
omvat het presenteren van het werk van Ierse vormgevers
bij prominente gelegenheden in vormgevingshoofdsteden,
waaronder Londen, Parijs, Eindhoven, Milaan, New York, Chicago
en Hong Kong/Shenzhen. ID2015 is in het leven geroepen door
de Design & Crafts Council van Ierland (DCCoI), in samenwerking
met partnerorganisaties, in naam van het Ierse Ministerie van
Werkgelegenheid, Ondernemingen en Innovatie, het Ministerie
van Buitenlandse Zaken en Trade and Enterprise Ireland. ID2015partners zijn onder anderen oprichtingspartner MCO Projects,
accomodatiepartner The Doyle Collection, evenementpartner
OPW, expositiepartner DAA, technologiepartner IBM, Transport
Partners - Bus Éireann Expressway, constructiepartner SISK.
The library includes seminal Irish design and designed
publications including:
All images by Peter Rowan with the
exception of images on:
Kilkenny Design: Twenty-One Years of Design in Ireland
by Nick Marchant
Art and Architecture of Ireland (in particular Volume 5 20th C )
various eds Yale University Press
Speculative Everything by Dunne and Raby, MIT Press
Eileen Gray: Her Work and Her World
by Jennifer Goff, Irish Academic Press
A Bit Lost/Shhhhh by Chris Haughton, Candlewick
Once Upon an Alphabet: Short Stories for All the Letters
by Oliver Jeffers, Philomel Books
Designing the Secret of Kells
by Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart and Eloise Scherrer , Cartoon
Saloon
Logo R.I.P.: A Commemoration of Dead Logotypes
by The Stone Twins, BIS Publishers
Irish Country Posters (Plakate in der Irischen Provinz)
by the Deutsches Plakat Museum, Essen in 1982
Oranje & Green: Holland – Ireland Design Connections 1951
– 2002 by Conor Clarke, BIS Publishers
Ireland Design & Visual Culture; Negotiating Modernity
Eds. Linda King and Elaine Sisson, CUP Press
The Moderns: The Arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s
various Eds. IMMA
PIVOT Dublin Bid Book
published by Dublin City Council Architects Office
Campaign published by ICAD
IDI Awards 2014 published by IDI
RIAI Annual Review, Irish Architecture, Vol 5 (2014/15)
published by RIAI
House Projects, published by Atelier Project and House
Projects
Into the Light; 60 yrs of the Arts Council
ed, Karen Downey published by Arts Council
Motion Capture ed, Fiona Kearney published by Glucksman
Gallery
On Seeing Only Totally New Things Gavin Murphy & Atelier
Projects
Enignum and Other Stories, Joseph Walsh
second edition published by Atelier Projects and JW Studio
Page 10, 11, 12 courtesy of Animation
Ireland
Page 13 courtesy of Lovely Productions
Page14,15 courtesy of Garrett O’ Hagan
Page 16, 17 courtesy of Damien
Murtagh
Page 18 courtesy of Daniel Martinek
and Filip Zuan
Page 21 courtesy of Rothschild and Bickers
Page 24 courtesy of Design Goat
Page 28, 29 courtesy of Design Partners
Page 30, 31, 32,33 courtesy of Dolmen and
Novaerus
Page 34, 35 courtesy of Fabio Diena
Page 36, 37 courtesy of Rich Gilligan
Page 38, 40, 41 courtesy of Love & Robots
Page 39 courtesy of The Abbey Theatre
Page 46, 47 courtesy of Mcor Technologies
and Pink Kong Studio
Page 50, 51, 52, 53 courtesy of The
Souvenir Project
Page 56 courtesy of Rich Gilligan
Page 57 courtesy of Studio AAD
Page 58, 59 courtesy of Annie Atkins and
Eoghan Nolan
Page 62 courtesy of The Stone Twins
Page 64, 65 courtesy of Egg, Piranha Bar,
Screen Scene and Windmill Lane
Page 66, 67 courtesy of Windmill Lane VFX
Page 69 courtesy of Zero-G
Neem voor meer informatie en afbeeldingen met hoge resolutie
(via Dropbox link) contact op met:
Sandford PR — [email protected]
www.sandfordpr.com
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Team biographies:
Curatorial Team
Alex Milton
Alex Milton is the Programme Director of
Irish Design 2015. As a designer, educator,
researcher, curator and author he has
promoted a critical, provocative and
entrepreneurial approach to design. He is
a visiting professor at Manchester School
of Art, Aston University and the National
College of Art and Design, Ireland. Alex has
previously taught at a number of institutions
internationally including Central Saint
Martins College of Art and Design, Edinburgh
College of Art and the Central Academy of
Fine Art, Beijing. His creative work has been
exhibited at numerous international venues
including ICFF New York, 100% Design
London, IMMA Dublin, MUDAC Lausanne,
INDEX Copenhagen and Designersblock
Milan. He has published extensively, and
his most recent book ‘Research Methods
for Product Design’ co-authored with Paul
Rodgers was published by Laurence King in
2013. He is a council member of the Institute
of Designers in Ireland and a Fellow of the
Royal Society of the Arts.
Louise Allen
Louise Allen is the Head of International
Programmes for Irish Design 2015 and
Head of Innovation and Development at
the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland.
Her experience ranges across design,
enterprise, contemporary arts, education,
curation and innovation. In her various roles
she has led on the strategic development
for the design and craft sector, forged
relationships nationally and internationally
and has delivered several EU funded
programmes. Louise most recently
curated ‘Second Skin’ which is touring as
part of the Irish Design 2015 exhibitions
programme. She is currently on the board
of the World Crafts Council Europe.
Angela O’Kelly
Angela O’Kelly is the Head of Design for
Body and Environment at the National
College of Art and Design, Ireland. She
has worked as a curator of contemporary
design and craft since 2004 and has also
worked as a consultant, educator, facilitator
and practitioner. She holds a degree and
postgraduate diploma in Design and Applied
Art from Edinburgh College of Art and an MA
in Arts Management and Cultural Policy from
University College Dublin.
Exhibition Design
John McLaughlin Architects
Graphic Design
New Graphic
Exhibition Fabrication
Oikos Ltd Dublin, Ireland
John McLaughlin is a graduate of UCD
School of Architecture. He worked in Paris
and London for over a decade on major civic
and cultural projects before returning to
Dublin where he was Director of Architecture
with the Dublin Docklands Authority where
he was responsible for the design of public
spaces, notably the Grand Canal Harbour
area. He was a member of the group who
drafted the Irish Government Policy on
Architecture 2009 to 2015, and started
private practice in 2010. Often collaborating
with practitioners from different disciplines,
he leads a studio of six people based in Dún
Laoghaire. Their work is inspired by modern
Irish architects and designers and has been
noted for its elegance, understatement and
playfulness. They have received many awards
and have been published internationally.
In 2014 he co-curated and designed the
Irish pavilion at the Fourteenth Venice
international Architecture Biennale with
Dr. Gary A. Boyd. Titled Infra-Eireann, the
pavilion looked at how, since independence,
the Irish state has used infrastructures to
make Ireland modern.
New Graphic are a design agency
based in Dublin. They think good graphic
design combines clarity and beauty.
Their work is idea driven. They look to
communicate their client’s message clearly
using the best medium for the job.
Recently they’ve worked with John
McLaughlin Architects on the Architecture
Biennale in 2012 and 2014, the Liminal
exhibition being their latest collaboration.
newgraphic.ie
johnmclaughlin.ie
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Liminal – Irish design at the
threshold continues to evolve
and will be exhibited at:
Design Hub, Dublin Castle,
20th November, 2015 — 6th January, 2016
National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, opening 8th April, 2016
@irishdesign2015
#ID2015Liminal
www.irishdesign2015.ie/liminal
Thanks to:
We would like to thank the Irish design sector and community
for their invaluable support and advice in helping develop the
exhibition content and approach.
Thank you to the Irish Design 2015 team, and our colleagues
at the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland for helping to make the
exhibition happen.
We would also like to thank the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and
Innovation, Enterprise Ireland and the Department of Foreign Affairs
and Trade for their continued support of Irish Design 2015.
Irish Design 2015
Irish Design 2015 is the start of a job creation journey exploring,
promoting and celebrating Irish design and designers through events
and activities on the island of Ireland and internationally.
Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, is Patron of Irish Design
2015 and the initiative has been included in the Irish Government’s
Action Plan for Jobs.
ID2015 is being convened by the Design & Crafts Council of
Ireland, in collaboration with partner organisations on behalf of the
Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation, the Department of
Foreign Affairs and Trade and Enterprise Ireland.
www.irishdesign2015.ie
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