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A first Le Cool Dublin cover for Tipperary-born, Dublin-based illustrator and designer Elizabeth Burgess.

She loves lamp.

Elizabeth sez,

“I moved up in August after graduating last year from Visual Communications in LSAD [Limerick School of Art and Design]. When I create first I’ll do lots and lots of research, I’m a bit of a mood board queen! Then I’ll start sketching and putting all my ideas together. Once I’m finally happy with a sketch I’ll scan it on to my computer and finish it up in illustrator. I was really inspired by the lamp posts in Dublin for this lettering piece. They’re really ornate and beautiful….”

This week’s Le Cool Dublin issue

A chat with Elizabeth

Joanne Byrne

Sandycove.

By artist and brand designer Joanne Byrne,

Joanne sez:

I am a graphic designer from Dublin, where I worked for the last 10 years before moving to Paris last summer. I studied Visual Communications and Interactive Media at IADT, [Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin] While living and working in Sandycove over the last few years I have been amazed by how drastically the landscape changes depending on the light and tides, I wanted to capture some of these variations…

This Week’s Le Cool Dublin Issue

A chat with Joanne

Printbob

James Coffey writes:

Today marks what would have been the 70th birthday of one of music’s most influential and iconic stars, Bob Marley. Irish graphic designer Gary McLoughlin created this print recently in commemoration of Bob Marley’s concert in Dalymount Park, Dublin 25 35 years ago this July.
Some of Gary’s previous works of “Alternative Posters For Irish Movies” was also featured on Broadsheet.ie.

Gary McLoughlin

(Irish Times)

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Harmless festive bus shelter ad for some.

Searing indictment of institutional indifference to decent design for others.

Fiacra Lennon fumes:

“Decision to not pay a decent Irish illustrator for this ad is very poor. Truly woeful ad…

Fight!

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A very watchable promo for Making Waves: the 2014 ICAD (Institute Of Creative Advertising And Design, Dublin 8) Upstarts Exhibition, which opens this Thursday at the Science Gallery..

Directed by Dave Tynan and starring Dave Cowzer, Anne Gildea, Elaine McDevitt, Meagan Hyland, Karl Davis, Patricia Fox, Amy Heffernan, Sarah Butler, Gaelle Robert , Kate O’Moore.

(H/T: Meg Hyland)