Trailer Park Paddies - Project

I do a lot of work for my sisters and their Mongol Rally team The Trailer Park Paddies.

This is the latest piece of work I've done for them, a poster for a Pub Quiz they've orgainized.

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Here's some work I've done recently.

This is an unused site header design...

...this is the one that's in use.

Crew tees

The back of the tee with a misspelling. I should change that :P

CoinOp - Blind Emboss greeting card

Just beautiful. No ink was used for this, just letterpress printed without ink.

http://www.pinballpublishing.com/coinop/2009/06/hot-off-the-press-duchess-clothier-greeting-cards/

http://www.pinballpublishing.com/coinop/

Anna Bond + Bonnie Tsang Logo

Really lovely logo done by Anna Bond for Bonnie Tsang Photography. Bringing out my girly side :P

Check out the rest of her really cute stuff here: http://riflemade.squarespace.com/

http://riflemade.squarespace.com/blog/2009/5/28/bonnie-tsang-photography-logo-design.html

Objectfied

I went to see it last night at the IFI in Temple Bar with a post screening Q&A with Gary Hustwit.

I'm not going to try to write a review a) because I'm not good at writing reviews and b) because Allan Chochinov has already written a really good one here. That pretty much sums up my feelings about it!

I really enjoyed it, my favourite part was anytime the Bouroullec brothers were on screen (which wasn't enough in my opinion!). Gary Hustwit revealed after the movie, the part we didn't see was every fifteen minutes they'd have huge fights where they would shout at each other, and then the next minutes be smoking cigarettes and talking calmly!

The most exciting part of the night for me was when he mentioned his next project. He didn't give any clues as to what it might be about but I can't wait to hear more! He talked about how he thought of Objectified as a follow up to Helvetica and how he's currently working on a third movie. He even went so far as to compare the three movies to Star Wars or Lord of the Rings!

I bought a poster after the show which was only €10 (available for $20 online) which seemed really resonable, and when I got it home and unrolled it, I realised it had been signed by Mr Hustwit himself!! Niiice :D

(I turned on the camera flash because without it the picture was just flat grey, when the poster is a really nice silver)

Dublin Bus Rebrand - Part 2

Some photos I took to expand on this post about the Dublin Bus rebrand. My photography skills are poor, and everything was so damn shiney! It seemed like I couldn't get any really good pictures.

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Prepaid Smartcard. I really like this design. Below is the old design for the prepaid tickets.

This is the ticket you get when you pay on with change.

This is the old version of the previous ticket. The machine would just spit out a random length of ticket (the one pictured is about 7 inches long, but the next time you get the bus it could be a quater of the size). The new tickets are smaller and more consistant in size.

A notice on the bus stop

Nitelink timetable

Nitelink logo.

This is the old Nitelink ticket. Fug. You can see the old bus design here, but for the sake of your eyeballs I'd recommend you don't! It's just the above ticket printed huuuuge on the side of a bus.

I don't know if they've made any changes to the bus design itself. I hope they did.

I spent all weekend looking out for these adverts on the sides of the buses, and didn't see any for long enough to get a picture. The top one was taken when I was sitting on a bus outside the Blanchardstown Shopping centre, the bottom photo was taken from my boyfriends apartment window. Obscured by the tree is the logo with the new tagline "The Bus. Do you get it yet?".

So far so good :D I'm really a big fan of this rebrand and everytime I see a new application of it I get a little bit excited.

Still on the list of pictures I'd like to record for this "project":

• Old prepaid bus tickets (I must have a ton of these lying around)
• Some more adverts/posters/notices
• Timetables
• Leaflets

What does everyone think?

Studio on Fire and Bungie - Identity

Studio on Fire (letterpress pornographers) and Bungie (bringers of Halo) have worked together to make a refreshed logo and identity. It's not a huge change (the logos not amazing either) but those letterpress cards - om nom nom nom!!!

I love the repeating sword pattern on the back.

http://www.beastpieces.com/2009/06/recon-armor-worthy-bungie-business-cards/

http://www.beastpieces.com

So busy!!!!!

Wow, I've been so busy lately! The weather has been so good that it didn't seem right to spend too much time indoors, hence the lack of blogging. So I'm going to have a few posts coming up about what I've been up to and I'm going to write about:

• A very interesting Sweet Talk, with Alex Trochut, Ian Stevenson and Gaetan Billault. I even managed to get some (blurry) pictures.
• A post about the screening of Objectified (which is tonight) with a post screening Q&A with Gary Hustwit himself!! Woo :D
• Some more about the Dublin Bus rebrand. I've taken to the street to get some nice pictures of different applications of the identity.
  

So thats what I've been doing, what I'm going to be doing this week is posting about it!!