Last October we invited Synth Eastwood to get involved at OFFSET. They devised a project called “Lost In Translation” that aimed to test the way people retain and communicate visual information. They spent 3 days filming speakers and delegates in a specially designed isolation booth created by ABGC Architects. [...]]]>

Last October we invited Synth Eastwood to get involved at OFFSET. They devised a project called “Lost In Translation” that aimed to test the way people retain and communicate visual information. They spent 3 days filming speakers and delegates in a specially designed isolation booth created by ABGC Architects. Alongside a wealth of Irish creatives like Scott Burnett, Rich Gilligan and Celestine Cooney they were also lucky enough to grab speakers such as Daniel Eatock, Scott Dadich and David Carson. The results are in and they came back positive.

The above video is one of eleven. Please have a look and see if you can spot a friend, a tutor or a colleague. The whole project is live now right here.

If you’ve been wondering why we’ve been so quiet of late, it’s because we have been feverishly working behind the scenes since OFFSET2010 ended. And so today we can make our first announcement in this regard.

OFFSET, Dublin’s creative festival returns to the spectacular Grand Canal Theatre next March 9/10/11 2012. With 24 [...]]]>

If you’ve been wondering why we’ve been so quiet of late, it’s because we have been feverishly working behind the scenes since OFFSET2010 ended. And so today we can make our first announcement in this regard.

OFFSET, Dublin’s creative festival returns to the spectacular Grand Canal Theatre next March 9/10/11 2012. With 24 leading creative lights on the main stage, a second room for debates and discussion, interviews and lots more surprises planned, we intend this edition to be our biggest and brightest yet.

This of course means there will be no OFFSET festival in 2011. We understand there will be a lot of disappointment with this news but we can assure you that our reasons are legitimate and are borne out of a genuine need to make OFFSET stronger and for your experience to be even better. There are a myriad of reasons for this decision all of which we gave serious consideration to, including the action packed Autumn arts calendar in Dublin and also availability of major international speakers around this time. Rather than compromise on the quality of the people we’re bringing over and our event, we want to build on our 2 previous editions so have decided to move OFFSET from here on out to Springtime each year.

Our full site and early bird tickets will be online in the coming months and we’re working on making them as great value as previous editions. We’re also introducing a staged payment plan which should make them easier on your pocket.

Our goal has always been to create a festival that will be a celebration of global creativity and will bring together the best in International and Irish creative talent in graphic design, illustration, street and fine art, film, fashion, photography, moving image and much, much more. Over the last 2 years OFFSET has featured the strongest line-up of international creatives ever assembled in Ireland including…

Sir Peter Blake, David Carson, Massimo Vignelli, Dave McKean, Experimental Jetset, Studio AKA, Chip Kidd, David Shrigley, George Lois, James Jean, David O’Reilly, House Industries, Pentagram, Graphic Thought Facility, Tara McPherson, Anthony Burrill, Zach Gold, and many more.

Over half of the line-up for OFFSET2012 is already confirmed and is looking amazing and is sure to be inspiring, we can’t wait to share it with you in the coming months.

- GET INVOLVED

As with previous editions, the periphery events kick off a week beforehand, Friday 2nd March, so we’re inviting anyone who wants to get involved to submit their ideas for events to info@iloveoffset.com and we’ll do our best to work with you to make it happen. We will help promote them through our network and also help you find a home for your idea/event if you don’t have one.

Join us on Facebook and Twitter for regular updates and also our Mailing List in the menu above.

Thanks for listening and we will have more info soon.

WOW!

Our friends at The Small Print have compiled a huge (274 page) survey of creatives, and asked them their favourite event, film, book, piece of work etc from 2010. We are delighted to see OFFSET2010 ranking so high on people list.  And what a line up of contributors…Adrian Shaughnessy, Alex Trochut, Anthony Burrill, [...]]]>

WOW!

Our friends at The Small Print have compiled a huge (274 page) survey of creatives, and asked them their favourite event, film, book, piece of work etc from 2010. We are delighted to see OFFSET2010 ranking so high on people list.  And what a line up of contributors…Adrian Shaughnessy, Alex Trochut, Anthony Burrill, BLAM, Chloe Early, Chris Haughton, Conor Harrington, Daniel Eatock, David O’Reilly, Emily Forgot, Gavin Lucas, Genevieve Gauckler, James Jarvis, M&E, Nate Williams, Oliver Jeffers and many, many more.

You can download the PDF (30MB) here
Or go read it online at ISSUU

We hope to be announcing news soon with regard to OFFSET2011 so stayed tuned for that. In the meantime we have added to our archive of videos from OFFSET2009 with James Jean and PJ Lynch now on our Vimeo channel.

Keep well.

Bren, Richard & Peter

As we kick off the tinsel from our Christmas and New Year break we have another couple of late pressies for you all. Two more gems from our archive with presentations from the illustration genius of James Jean and PJ Lynch. Happy New Year from all at Team OFFSET…watch out for some [...]]]>

As we kick off the tinsel from our Christmas and New Year break we have another couple of late pressies for you all. Two more gems from our archive with presentations from the illustration genius of James Jean and PJ Lynch. Happy New Year from all at Team OFFSET…watch out for some news soon.

So we are still going through the video archives at the moment playing catch up on OFFSET2009…but what jewels we have unearthed. Tara McPherson & Atelier David Smith , two of the stars of the weekend, are presented here for your enjoyment…so enjoy!

Now that the dust has settled on OFFSET for another year, we’re back with the fourth edition of our OFFSHOOT events.

Featuring presentations by:

Fergal Brennan / Animator
http://www.mynameisfergal.com

Fergal is a freelance animator and illustrator based in Dublin. He specialises in computer animation and post-production work for short films, adverts and [...]]]>

Now that the dust has settled on OFFSET for another year, we’re back with the fourth edition of our OFFSHOOT events.

Featuring presentations by:

Fergal Brennan / Animator
http://www.mynameisfergal.com

Fergal is a freelance animator and illustrator based in Dublin. He specialises in computer animation and post-production work for short films, adverts and music videos.

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Sean&Yvette / Photographers
http://www.seanandyvette.com

Incredible photography team who’s work runs the full gamut from Fashion, Portraiture, Advertising and Still Life projects. They also co-founded one of the most exciting creative spaces in Dublin  – South Studios.

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Niall McCormack / Designer & Blogger
http://www.hitone.ie/blog

As well as being a great graphic designer Niall also runs HiTone, a blog that specialises in the cataloging and discussion of vintage Irish book covers. He is curating an exhibiton on the work of celebrated designer Cor Klaasen during Design Week and will present a talk on his work at OFFSHOOT.

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OFFSHOOT4 takes place in The Sugar Club on Dublin’s Leeson Street on Thursday 4th November. Doors open at 7PM.
Tickets are 7euro or 5euro if you are a student/unwaged and are available on the door. We operate a free seating policy and all tickets are available on a “first come first served” basis!

We are delighted to host this special OFFSHOOT as part of Design Week so check out http://www.designweek.ie for details of what other events are happening.

All the relevant links…get clicking!

http://www.iloveoffset.com
http://www.alwaysreadthesmallprint.com
http://www.thesugarclub.ie
http://www.designweek.ie

Well after a few weeks rest and while we are editing the videos from OFFSET2010 we thought we would get around to some ‘housekeeping’. We still have some videos outstanding from OFFSET2009 in the vault including the following incredible presentation from Massimo Vignelli.

WOW.

After over 10 months of planning and preparation the week that was OFFSET2010 is now behind us and we couldn’t be happier. Apart from a couple of small issues everything went just as we hoped, if not a smidgen better. Thanks SO much to everyone who helped make such a memorable event and [...]]]>

WOW.

After over 10 months of planning and preparation the week that was OFFSET2010 is now behind us and we couldn’t be happier. Apart from a couple of small issues everything went just as we hoped, if not a smidgen better. Thanks SO much to everyone who helped make such a memorable event and one we hope to continue for many years to come.

We couldn’t have done it without the constant support of our patient partners, our event partners, our supporters, sponsors and, of course, the event attendees and weekend delegates who came down to make it a truly memorable event. The warmth and enthusiasm at every turn was simply unbelievable.

We were blessed also with an eclectic yet social bunch of speakers who never shied away from sharing their insights to anyone willing to listen. 2 years in and we feel we produced something very special, something with lots of room for improvement and enhancement.

We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we thought you did. Feel free to send your feedback to info@iloveoffset.com, good and bad (we can take it), and here’s hoping we see you all (and the people you hopefully recommend us to) next year.

Keep well.

Richard Seabrooke / Bren Byrne / Peter O’Dwyer
OFFSET2010

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Some interesting coverage…

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Creative Review

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-b…set-2010-day-1

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-b…arson-and-more

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Steven Heller’s Daily Heller

http://imprint.printmag.com/daily-heller/

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Go on, tell us what you think…

Well it’s just 2 days now to OFFSET2010 and we can’t wait.

HAVEN’T GOT YOUR TICKET YET?

WEEKEND PASSES:
Weekend tickets now available for the great value price of 180 euro / 120 student/unwaged.
Group discount of 5 for 4 is still available, meaning tickets are still cheaper than our early bird [...]]]>

Well it’s just 2 days now to OFFSET2010 and we can’t wait.

HAVEN’T GOT YOUR TICKET YET?

WEEKEND PASSES:
Weekend tickets now available for the great value price of 180 euro / 120 student/unwaged.
Group discount of 5 for 4 is still available, meaning tickets are still cheaper than our early bird price at 144euro a go.

All people with weekend tickets will be given special wristbands which guarantee access all weekend and get you free into the OFFSET party Saturday night in the Twisted Pepper, capacity allowing.
All student tickets must be accompanied by a valid, current ID. These wristbands are non-transferable, any evidence of tampering or sharing bands could result in delegates not being admitted to the venue.

DAY TICKETS:
A very limited amount of 1 day tickets will be available at the Grand Canal Theatre each day priced 70 euro & 50 student/unwaged. To buy these just turn up to the venue at any time over the weekend, the earlier the better.
Day ticket holders do not get wristbands or free entry into the OFFSET party but are free to enjoy everything else.

www.iloveoffset.com/tickets.html
www.ticketmaster.ie

HAVE YOUR TICKET AND ARE READY TO GO?

GETTING TO THE VENUE:
Situated overlooking the Grand Canal Dock, in the centre of Dublin, Grand Canal Theatre is well served by public transport, with Bus, Rail, LUAS and DART services all within a 20 minute (max) walk from the venue. There are limited parking facilities around the venue, so check out the AA Parking Guide for details. More details on our VENUE section of our site.

REGISTRATION AND DOOR TIMES:
We will be open from 8.30am on Friday morning to allow for early registration before the first speaker at 10am.
Registration runs all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday so we’re ready when you are.
The doors will be open from 9am on Saturday and Sunday.
The main stage opens each day to delegates 20 minutes before the first speaker (9.40am) with the second room programming kicking off at 11am each morning.

SEATS:
Your ticket gets you full access to all the rooms and areas open during the weekend. These include the main stage and second room but also the foyer and Circle Club where we encourage you to hang out and socialise with other delegates.
Seats are not assigned per ticket holder so feel free to explore the venue and sit wherever you like.

SPEAKER LINEUP & RUNNING TIMES:
The full schedule for both rooms and foyer activity is now available to view on our SCHEDULE page and also in the complimentary brochure you will receive upon your arrival.
Please note that while everything has been signed off and we are confident of the weekend running smoothly and to plan, things may change so listen out to all announcements made on both stages throughout the day and you’ll be fully updated.
We would encourage all delegates to come down as early as possible to support the speakers presenting.
If you would like to plan the talks you would like to attend across the 2 rooms you can download a abridged version of the brochure HERE.

FOOD & DRINK:
The venue café will be open from first thing each day and will remain open all day serving a range of hot and cold drinks, pastries and other snacks.
There is a special lunch special each day of sandwich, hot drink and crisps for 7 euro.
A full bar will be running from lunchtime for those of you who want something stronger.
Alcoholic drinks are not allowed into the main room but delegates are allowed to bring in other drinks, we would ask you take any rubbish with you when you leave.

MERCHANDISE:
There will be a full merchandise stand selling books and magazines by speakers including George Lois, Espo, Wooster Collective, Steven Heller, Chris Haughton and many others, t-shirts for boys and girls including some from Turtlehead and Arms, and there will be a limited amount of other items including prints from illustrator Alan Clarke.

CLOAKROOM:
There will be a full cloakroom onsite for the weekend costing 2 euro per item left in per day.

STAFF, SECURITY & USHERING:
There will be a lot of staff working over the weekend to ensure your stay is as enjoyable and inspiring as possible.
To make the experience as social and safe as possible please work with all staff whenever you are asked to, thanks.
If we can help in any way just talk to any member of staff and we will do our best to make it happen.

SOCIAL NETWORKING:
We wholeheartedly encourage as many people as possible to post their comments about the event on Facebook, Twitter and all other social networks you use.
OFFSET2010 on Facebook.
OFFSET2010 on Twitter…we would encourage you to use the hashtag #OFFSET2010 when doing tweets!

REAL WORLD SOCIAL NETWORKING:
There will plenty of informal opportunites for everyone to meet each other over the 3 days.
We have 2 interactive projects in the foyer of Grand Canal Theatre:
Lost in Translation brought to you by Synth Eastwood and AGBC Architects.
An Alternative City a workshop with Original Print and Red&Grey Design.

With plenty of debates, panel discussions and interviews/Q&A’s in The Irish Times Second Room.

For those of you who like to dance and drink whilst you do your networking we have that covered from DJ Shadow and Trainwreck on Friday night, the OFFSET2010 Official Party on Saturday to closing drinks in The Bernard Shaw on Sunday. All details are in the EVENTS section.

Ok…lets get this party started…See you nice and early on Friday!

Trainwreck at OFFSET2010 takes the coveted Trainwreck Meatface concept to the next level. Expect to see new Meatface visuals treats by ‘This is Redacted’ and more. Also check out a unique showing of Zach Gold’s movie ‘Milk’ in the Pod, featuring choreographed dancers performing in a tank of milk, shot at 1000 frames [...]]]>

Trainwreck at OFFSET2010 takes the coveted Trainwreck Meatface concept to the next level. Expect to see new Meatface visuals treats by ‘This is Redacted’ and more. Also check out a unique showing of Zach Gold’s movie ‘Milk’ in the Pod, featuring choreographed dancers performing in a tank of milk, shot at 1000 frames per second. Musical delights are provided by PRODUSE, aka Gav O’Hare, a Dublin based producer. Recently signed to ‘We Are Genius Recordings’ and past productions out on DXR and Nice n Nasty records. His most recent EP ‘Stilt/Road Sine’ is gaining some big names support ATM. Support is provided by Sam K and Donal Mooney.

Admission €8 or €5 to Offset wristband holders.

Launching Friday 1st Oct, 11pm
The Pod, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2
www.trainwreckclub.com