A cover to mark Le Cool Dublin’s  OFFSET special by Dublin design studio Detail.

OFFSET, “Dublin’s creative festival” starts in the Bord Gais Theatre, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin tomorrow.

Detail’s Holly Brennan sez:

“We’re very excited to be speaking at the conference. The cover is a based on the lovely light sculpture by Martha Schwartz .which marks the entrance to the [Grand Canal] theatre.”

Le Cool Dublin will be programming the Yellow Stage at the event. Expect Parnell beards, tatts and fashionable eyewear.

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‘Typebography’

Oh yes.

By William Doherty, a final year student at NCAD.

He sez:

“This cover explores a new form of land art I am using in my work, which I call ‘Typebography’. I’m not a big fan of the usual Paddy’s Day themed designs, I created an alternative Irish theme design using the land as my canvas. My work has recently been inspired by Seamus Heaney’s poems and his interest in Ireland’s bog. His poem Boglands and one line in-particular “Our unfenced country is bog” led me to explore using the bog in my work. This cover links two of my interests by using the bog, which holds 10,000 years of Ireland’s history and the typography of the Le Cool logo.”

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William Doherty

The second by  Aoife Dooley. (of those Breaking Bad prints fame)

Aoife sez:

“This cover is based on all those unfortunate times my iPod has died or one earphone has stopped working on the bus home. I usually get caught with the school run, so this is a collection of different conversations/words talking over each other that I’ve wrote down on the bus in last few weeks.”

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More Aoife Dooley doodles here

The food issuer by Aoife Dooley.

Aoife sez:

“This cover was designed specially for The Food Issue. The idea behind it was to create a dream I had when I was unfortunate enough to contract Swine Flu three years ago. I could see food floating around my bedroom and I was convinced my legs were chicken drumsticks and that I was in The White House. It was a good time.”

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Aoife Dooley

By Áine McDermott..

The last of the 2014 Le Cool Dublin Covers Competition winners.

Áine sez:

“It’s a composite of about 12 shots I made about a year ago. I’ve a bit of an obsession with those two towers. They’re always the first thing I look out for when I land in Dublin Airport…”

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By hairy illustrator, Cathal Duane, who sez:

This cover is from a personal project I have been working on called “Schadenfreude” which is a German word for a feeling of joy derived from the misfortunes of others. A feeling I think everybody is guilty of at some point in some small way. I like it because it is evil at its most pointless.

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Cathal Duane

PLUS

Ciaran Le Cool writes:

Forkful TV by Mark Duggan and Aoife McElwain, take on the greasy institution that is the Irish Breakfast. Thank fupp for that…

Forkful TV

By Dublin photographer Chris Lindhorst.

The second Le Cool Dublin 2014 covers competition winner.

Chris sez:

Laurence O’Byrne came up with this concept – referencing the Anthony Burgess novel A Clockwork Orange. It was a great idea – and simply just about creating a piece with a visually interesting aesthetic.

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Chris Lindhorst

By James Casey and Jennifer Behan (Jen is a primary teacher from Kildare and James is an architectural graduate working in Dublin).

The first winner of the 2014 Le Cool Covers competition. It will be reprinted as a postcard by Pictureworks and distributed around the city [Dublin] shortly.

James & Jennifer say:

We are drawing on nostalgia here – that childhood urge to grab a crayon and, tongue stuck out to one side, start to furiously scribble in all the blanks! We used lines, shapes and colours that counter the style of the [‘le cool’] logo and we feel the result is satisfying.

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Thanks Ciaran

Update:

Finished!

Thanks Padraig Fahy

A grabby, second Le Cool Dublin cover design from Gordon Bent:

He sez:

“I reckon there’s a unique syndrome known as De Dublin Wit. You see it all over town in various forms, and not just in some clever arty way. This cover is an homage to a shop in Finglas that sadly, like so many other sole trader Newsagents, doesn’t exist anymore…”

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Gordon Bent

The first of the year.

By Gordon Bent who sez:

“Some might say the internet brought us into the 21st Century, but in a visual sense for Dublin, it was the Luas. Shiny and efficient, we suddenly lived in a city as deadly as Helsinki or Berlin. Now we’re coming out of a pretty rough recession it’s time to get things going again. Hopefully these escalators to nowhere (obscure Simpsons ref) will become rejuvenated and start moving again, like the rest of the City. Cos we still have our cool shiny trams.”

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PLUS

Ciaran Le Cool writes:

To usher in the New Year, we visited Dublin’s latest workout joint, Form School, and spoke to founders Gordon D’Arcy [above] and Aoife Cogan about their new venture, before enlisting Le Cool’s resident fitness guru Paul Walsh to put it to the test.