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annie'sgatheringFor the year that was in it.

Annie West’s celebrated buke cover artwork and tribute to the Gathering is now available in a very limited special edition in aid of Annie’s chosen charity, Aware.

Annie has gathered up 15 Giclée Prints made in Dublin using 310 gsm ‘Hahnemühle Museum Grade Archival Paper’ and measuring approx 35 x 25 cm. With each print signed, embossed and numbered by Annie.

Each print costs €100.

Aware will get €62.50 per print (after costs for printing, postage and those cardboard ‘tubes’).

If you would like to be among the 15 purchasers just send an email marked ‘Annie’s Gathering’ to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie.

Aware

9.50pm Update: Only five four three two one left.

Thanks Annie

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Grafik BS.

A fake studio set up by Amy West (of the Sligo-based Annie West clan) to see if graphic design appreciation on the internet is as superficial as she had hithereto suspected.

Sez Amy:

“A fake Behance page for the studio received hundreds of appreciations, positive comments on the style of the posters and even a job application for a position in the studio.

The experiment proved that there is an online community practising design with the understanding that the entire process consists solely of applying style to anything.”

Fight!

Grafik BS (It’s Nice That)

Amy West

seamus by annieSeamus Heaney by Annie West.

Annie writes:

While researching Seamus Heaney for a series of illustrations I was doing I asked a friend of his if he could give me some small bits of information I could use in an amusing but not insulting way.
I found out he was a big fan of black shirts.
I then asked his friend, “What might Seamus read in his spare time?” Expecting the answer to be oh, Plato or Yeats or some such.
“The Ben Sherman Catalogue” came the reply.

 

Annie West

hd_4fc2ad36186e457dc1eb600074103936-465x261The controversially out-sourced logo for TG4

Annie West writes:

Dear Ministers [Pat[ Rabbitte, [Jimmy] Deenihan and [Richard] Bruton

I’m writing to ask if you are aware of the fact that TG4 commissioned three UK based Companies to design the motion graphics and new Logo in 2012.

Many people, rightly, commented on Social media that because of EU rules, TG4 would have had to tender this work and whichever company came up with the best/cheapest pitch would win the commission, regardless of location.

However:

Further enquiries showed that in fact tender is not required for “creative” work. This means that TG4 (and, as it happens, RTE) do not need to advertise any work for commission and therefore, any Irish Companies who specialise in this kind of work (and there are many) might not even be aware that work is available.

It seems odd to me and many others that, in particular , designing a Logo that reflects *characteristics of traditional Irish Fonts that’s both modern and steeped in heritage* needs to be sent to three UK companies.

I personally do not work in this specialised area of design but I do know plenty of people who do. I also know people who will be graduating from IADT and other design Colleges who find this news demoralising and disappointing.

One might have assumed that , with TG4’s commitment to Irish heritage, language and creativity, every effort would have been made to find a company in Ireland (and perhaps even in the Gaeltacht areas) to do this work.

Ireland is bursting with creative talent, in all areas including motion graphics, typography and design. For the life of me I cannot understand why this lucrative job could not have been offered to an indigenous company.

Annie West

Previously: An Raibh Fios Agat?