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The Picture Works presents Little City Cards

2009-11-11T07:14:00.001-08:00

Little City Cards is our new printing and distribution service aimed at clients wishing to print and distribute smaller quantities of cards.

You may have come across our City Card racks already. These are our postcard racks full of free postcards. We have over 200 venues in Dublin alone. The beauty of these racks is that the general public pick up postcards they like - this is known as self selective advertising. No need to worry about whether or not your brand is being noticed when people are actively picking it up!

This new service will distribute your cards around Dublin City Centre in our busiest venues.

Price Plans

1. 2,500 A6 Postcards printed and distributed in our racks for 800 Euro ex vat.

2. 5,000 A6 Postcards printed and distributed in our racks for 1,250 Euro ex vat.

For more information check out our website or contact emily@thepictureworks.com

Creative Commons Gallery

2009-10-30T10:24:00.001-07:00

We have our third Creative Commons Gallery postcard in our racks at the moment. The image is by an artist called Karl Bergin. His images can be seen here.

Our Creative Commons series features artists we admire that have images that are licensed with a Creative Commons license. If you have images that have a Creative Commons licence and would like to see them in our racks then simply email info@thepictureworks.com.

Former AIR artist Gary Coyle New Show

2009-10-30T10:09:00.000-07:00

Gary's new show opened last night in the Concourse of the County Hall in Dun Laoghaire. This new work comprises 9 charcoal portraits of Dun Laoghaire folk. As always Garys work impresses. The show is free and runs till 15 November.

FFFFOUND!

2009-10-22T06:33:00.001-07:00

Discovered this site today. Its quite like stumbleupon except for images only. FFFFOUND! is a web service that not only allows the users to post and share their favorite images found on the web, but also dynamically recommends each user's tastes and interests for an inspirational image-bookmarking experience.The more you reflect your taste, the better recommendations on the New for you pages.

Check it out today

Turtlehead

2009-10-15T02:07:00.000-07:00

One of our clients, Turtlehead, recently printed postcards with us using our Digital Daily service. They printed them to promote their clothing line which is really cool, check out their site if you haven't already.

Their designs are limited to 500 pieces and all their t-shirts are printed in Ireland on ethically made and environmentally friendly 100% cotton tshirts.

The best thing about them is that any artist can submit a piece of work to have printed on their t-shirts and if you are selceted you are paid a lump sum and 5% of the profit from the sales of your t-shirt.

Exhibition: Exposed by Mohsin Shafi

2009-10-09T03:43:00.000-07:00

This month, one of our clients printed postcards and posters for his upcoming exhibition, Exposed. Mohsin Shafi will be exhibiting his recent works in The Pearse Centre from the 22nd of October.Check it out before it closes on the 31st October.

I love Typography

2009-10-02T08:57:00.000-07:00

And I do. This is great blog that I recently come across. Aside from its great design and aesthetics, it is a serious typography resource.

As the name suggests there is passion a go go in this blog and I have only just scratched the surface of it.

It talks you through designing and creating your own type face, history and development of type, fonts that should be used in web design and how. It also links to sites where you can buy the latest and greatest fonts available and to others where you can download free fonts.

If you haven't given type much thought this site will set you off on a different path and if you are already into fonts ........... this will not be your last trip to this blog.

David LaChapelle's Culture Night

2009-09-25T09:02:00.000-07:00

Tonight is Culture night in Dublin city. Over 120 arts and cultural organisations open their doors until late with hundreds of free events, tours, talks and performances for you, your family and friends to enjoy. There’s never been so much culture to experience for free!

For us, the exhibition to see is David LaChapelle's American Jesus in the Connaught House, Burlington Road until October 31st. The exhibition aims to portray the obsessions of American culture - celebrity worship and plastic surgery. The exhibition is set in a recession style exhibition space.

Indian art’s bumpy ride in the market

2009-09-04T03:41:00.000-07:00

Spotted this piece in the Financial Times which you mayfind of interest. It features Subodh Gupta who is acknowledged as India’s first contemporary art superstar. The Bihar-born artist, who started as a painter in the 1980s before branching into installation and video, has led the South Asian contemporary art boom with his towering sculptures crafted from tiffin food pots, milk pails and cow-dung patties.

Hometown

2009-08-28T09:10:00.000-07:00

This weekend inspiration is coming to our hometown. Artists and Musicans from around the world stream into Dun Laoghaire for what is very colourful and diverse festival. All in all quite of different from the norm - much of which is free. Check out what is on offer and when at www.festivalofworldcultures.com.

Right TED

2009-08-24T07:42:00.000-07:00

If you haven't come across TED.com yet you are in for an intellectual and inspirational treat. There are thousands of videos available for you to watch of notable folk presenting ideas that are close to their hearts. No presentation is longer than 18 minutes as that is one of the parameters when they talk the stage at this fairly unique conference in California and of last month a new venue Oxford in the UK. In this video Stefan Sagmeister talks of design odyssey and happiness that it provides. It is from a category 'Design like you give a damn'. We will highlight other presentations we like in the coming months, in the meantime click, sit back and enjoy.

AIR Artist Gary Coyle at Kilkenny Arts Festival

2009-08-07T08:13:00.001-07:00

A Former Air Artist Gary Coyle brings his wonderful ' At Sea' spoken word performance to the Kilkenny Arts Festival this weekend.

Over the past number of years Coyle has photographically recorded his daily swimming ritual at the Forty Foot in Dublin and has recorded, in his notebooks and diaries, the mood of the sea and the idiosyncrasies of the characters who swim there regularly.

He will bring all this to life in this performance through word, photography and video.

This is a well crafted, beautiful piece of work that is at times very amusing and always well observed.

There is also another bonus admission is Free.

Friday 7 August 2009, 9.00 pm
Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 August 2009, 8 pm

Hot Metal

2009-08-04T04:13:00.001-07:00

If Typography is your thing the Financial Times ran a story at the weekend suggesting a different origin of Times New Roman typeface than current conventional wisdom. It transposes you back in time and provides an interesting perspective on the mechanics, the art and craft of those hot metal days.

RDS Library Greeting Cards

2009-07-31T04:45:00.001-07:00

As part of this years Dublin Horse Show the RDS Library are running an exhibition of archive photography from previous Horse Shows. To commemorate this they have printed a great series of 5 Black and White A5 greeting cards with us. They capture the atmosphere of events from times gone bye. So if you are attending the Horse Show drop into the Library, see the exhibition and pick up a card or two. It runs from the 5th-9th of August.

Celebrating Julius Shulman Architectural Photographer par excellence

2009-07-29T09:18:00.001-07:00

The American photographer Julius Shulman passed away this month at the age of 98. Fastcompany have put together a short slideshow of some of his wonderful work.

http://www.fastcompany.com/multimedia/slideshows/content/julius-shulman.html

Enjoy and appreciate his vision, skill and artistry. The photo of the Kaufman House ( above) taken in Palm Springs 1947 is my favourite. There is a new documentary on his life and work which is be released in October. www.juliusshulmanfilm.com

AIR Artist Exhibition

2009-07-28T09:39:00.000-07:00

Recent AIR artist Paul McCarthy whose work Na Caipini is being shown as large format pieces in their native County Kerry.

Na Caipíní is an exhibition of portraits, beautifully printed as large scale murals, that explores the passing realities of life and the continuing cultural traditions of West Kerry from a contemporary perspective.

The people in the series represent an unbroken line in the life and culture of Corca Duibhne. While they have lived and worked and enjoyed their language and music in the ʻOld Styleʼ, the
generations that have followed them have had to balance this heritage with the demands of the modern world.

The series was created in conjunction with a recording made by Brenndaín O Beaglaoich of singers and musicians of Corca Duibhne. The men of this generation are the last of the Caipíní, the last for whom the wearing of a cap was an everyday essential and the last to experience life as it was lived for generations past.

This yearʼs renovation of the old school house in Cuas (Seanscoil an Chuasa – opened 17/7/09 by Minister Oʼ Cuiv), on the Dingle Peninsula, at the last cross-roads before Brandonʼs Creek, gives this project an excellent gallery space and a perfect spiritual and physical starting point.
Cuas – Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry, about 15 minutes drive from Dingle Town 2nd to 21st August 2009 Daily from 1pm until 6 pm

www.paulmccarthyphotography.com

Photo Espana

2009-07-17T09:05:00.000-07:00

The Photo Espana festival of photography is entering its last 10 days. There is always a good reason to visit Madrid and this exhibition adds to the compiling list. Alas it will not be this year. So it remains on our to do list, in the meantime we have to content ourselves by experiencing it online.

Friday remix

2009-07-10T09:30:00.000-07:00

It's time for a quality Friday Remix. Be warned strong language through out!

Humour for friday: Photoshop disasters

2009-07-10T02:11:00.001-07:00

My my what a big hand you have Mariah!

Found this site earlier and it is hilarious. Photoshop disasters is a blog dedicated to exactly what you would expect. The best part is that all the images submitted are commercial which means that these images were butchered by designers that should know better!

Calling all artists!

2009-07-08T08:55:00.000-07:00

This year we launched our latest artist series which we print from time to time. This series is called the Creative Commons Gallery. We print images created/selected/nominated by you, our fans. These cards are distributed in over 300 City Card venues nationwide. Any images that we would consider printing must have a Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives license. This type of license means that we would print the image without altering it and would credit the author on the reverse of the card.

Above is an image of one of our City Card racks in situ and below is one of our past Creative Commons Gallery cards.

To suggest an image simply email emily@thepictureworks.com with your ideas.

Inspiration: Fecal Face

2009-06-24T07:17:00.000-07:00

Came across this site yesterday. It is rich in both content and imagery. Theres so much to see I almost didn't know where to start. I quickly got over that as soon as I saw the word street artist in the interview section.

Graduate Exhibitions

2009-06-12T08:21:00.001-07:00

You can still catch the graduate exhibitions if you have not yet been. Its worth a visit to see the emerging talent from Ireland's finest art colleges. IADT finishes up tonight (12th June), NCAD runs until the 14th June, DIT runs until the 20th June and Crawfords begings on the 16th June.

Image by Louise Farrelly, IADT

Image by Sarah Bracken, Fine Art, DIT

Image by Aoife Casey, NCAD

New product available

2009-06-12T07:58:00.000-07:00

We have a new product to offer. We are now offering mini-postcard and business card printing. Shipping for 300 business cards is free to anywhere in the world!

300 Business Cards €50
600 Business Cards €70
900 Business Cards €90
1200 Business Cards €110
2400 Business Cards €150

The Picture Works Art Competition 2009: The Winners

2009-06-08T07:38:00.000-07:00

We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2009 Art Competition.

1st place Liam Murphy
2nd Place Ryan Devereux
Thames and Hudson Winner Maria O' Donovan
Thames and Hudson Student Winner Louise Farrelly
Thames and Hudson Student Winner Lisa Reburn
Runner Up Deirdre Lyons Doyle
Runner Up Neil Condron
Runner Up Myra Jago
Runner Up John Moore
Runner Up Paul Mac Manus

Details of next years art competition to be announced January 2010

Student postcards and business cards

2009-06-05T08:11:00.000-07:00

This month we printed business cards and postcards for hundreds of students from art colleges all over Ireland to hand out at their graduate exhibitions.

Why not visit some of the graduate exhibitions. IADT's exhibition is on now. NCAD's exhibition open tonight and DIT's exhibition opens 8th June.