The second cover by muddy hipster Brendan McCarey
Brendan sez:
“Have you ever experienced blue-sky sprites? Those tiny white dots that appear in your field of vision when you look into bright lights. I’ve only experienced this phenomenon a few times but it can seem like tiny fish or tadpoles swimming in front of you.”
More tobacco.
Le Cool Chat with Brendan
By dreamy, muddy-faced Co Monaghan-born designer Brendan McCarey.
Brendan sez:
“Like all kids I look to the sky and see elephants and dinosaurs playing in the clouds. Having never stood under Poolbeg Chimneys I’ve always wondered what they were looking at.”
Fair enough.
First issue of Le Cool was launched five years today. Holy moly. pic.twitter.com/WwDgixhQCC
— Le Cool Dublin (@lecooldublin) May 14, 2014
Many damn hipster returns.
A second cover by Salty Philip, AKA Lynn MacPherson,
For The Le Cool Dublin Bike Issue special.
Lynn sez:
“I invite woodland creatures to run around on a piece of paper with ink on their feet, when they’re quite done I pass the resulting mayhem off as art…that or I use Illustrator.”
By Lynn MacPherson (aka Salty Philip)
Lynn explains:
“Is a whale floating in the sky not a clear enough metaphor?! I suppose not, well one of my favourite things to do in summer is lie outside and watch the stars, so I decided it would be fun to draw a whale breathing out all the stars into the night sky..then I thought…you know what this whale needs lots and lots of DETAIL! (I do like detail) Then I thought…this would be better if it moved so I turned it into a .GIF. The End.”
Fair enough.
‘Carcosa’.
A fashion nod to the climactic scene from the first season of True Detective.
By .GIFted photographer Stephen Gallagher.
He sez:
“It’s a shoot called Carcosa (full shoot here) based around some of the imagery that was in True Detective but with fashion! That’s pretty lame but there you go.”
The Spire.
By Annie West, who sez:
“I get the idea when I do the morning walk. Always. Has to be a circuitous walk. I don’t have anything as formal as a sketchbook, that’s far too organised for me. So I scribble on the back of an envelope. Bring the envelope home, scan it, do it again, then again, then sit down with my pencil and my vast array of lovely Dr. Martin’s inks and get to it. I tweet while I wait for layers of ink to dry…”
Paddy and Colin.
By Sligo-based “grumpy old Illustrator and sometime cartoonist” Annie West
Annie sez:
“This is an idea I had for a children’s book showing Dublin landmarks as seen by Paddy Pigeon and his sidekick Colin. Colin Pigeon. I get ideas when I do the morning walk. Always. Has to be a circuitous walk. I don’t have anything as formal as a sketchbook, that’s far too organised for me. So I scribble on the back of an envelope. Bring the envelope home, scan it, do it again, then again, then sit down with my pencil and my vast array of lovely Dr. Martin’s inks and get to it. I tweet while I wait for layers of ink to dry. “
In 3D!
The second by William Doherty, a final year student at NCAD [National College of Art and Design]
William sez:
“I try and bridge the gap between art and design in my work and I think my work falls somewhere between the two. I work in 3D as often as I can and start a lot of my projects exploring how I can make something physical which can be frustrating sometimes when most graphic design has to work at a 2D level.”
This week’s Le Cool Dublin issue
The second cover byDetail Design Studio.
From James Delaney who sez.
“The cover is the joy of found art… Bord Gais tagging the city… Boom!”
Fair enough.