ADW RILLA ALEXANDER MARIAN BANTJES GAV BEATTIE (TINY LITTLE HORSE) MARK BLAMIRE (PRINT PROCESS) BEN BOS CALEF BROWN JON BURGERMAN FATTI BURKE BREN BYRNE (OFFSET) ALAN CLARKE GIANNI CLIFFORD (THINKHOUSE) HAZEL COONAGH CRAIG & KARL JAMIE DELANEY DESIGNGOAT STEVE DOOGAN EBOY EOIN DUFFY JAMES EARLEY AISLING FARINELLA MICHAEL GILLETTE RICHARD GILLIGAN ÁNGEL LUIS GONZÁLEZ (PHOTOIRELAND) JOSHUA GORDON (FUCK’N’FILTHY) AIDEN GRENNELLE (IMAGE NOW) MATTHEW GRIFFIN HVASS & HANNIBAL CHRIS HAUGHTON BRIAN HERRON OLIVER JEFFERS CHRIS JUDGE JAMES KELLEHER (PILCROW) EOGHAN KIDNEY JEREMY LESLIE (MAGCULTURE) FUCHSIA MACAREE JOHN MAHON (BODYTONIC) MASER PAUL McBRIDE (DETAIL) STEVE McCARTHY JONATHAN McHUGH OLLIE MUNDEN (ILOVEDUST) AL MURPHY BEN NEWMAN PETER O’DWYER (OFFSET) CLÍONA O’FLAHERTY VAUGHAN OLIVER SIMON RAND (IORUM) SIMON ROCHE (BUREAU) RICHARD SEABROOKE (OFFSET) SERGE SEIDLITZ IAN STEVENSON STEVE SIMPSON THE STONE TWINS KEVIN WALDRON CIARAN WALSH DAVID WALL (CONOR & DAVID) NATHALIE WEADICK KARLSSON WILKER JOHNNY WINSLADE (ILOVEDUST) LANCE WYMAN
OFFSET REVIEW OF 2013 PART 3 INTRODUCTION
As 12 months go, 2013 was a classic! The craft, vision, scale and ambition of the projects listed are awesome and deserve to be celebrated by those who witnessed them first time around and discovered by those who missed them. Even a cursory glance through these pages will find you yelping excitedly in agreement as the pages burst with examples of inspiring design, sumptuous illustration, incredible films and creativity abound. Is it possible to be nostalgic for simpler, better times when you are only talking about the year just past? Well that’s how I feel about 2013. All my memories seem like they are filtered through a hazy golden blur like the sun shined for the whole year. Thanks to all who took the time to share their memories and thanks to all those who have produced work that made my world a better place. The exhilarating thing is that 2014 is shaping up already to be even better. BREN BYRNE OFFSET
JONATHAN McHUGH ILLUSTRATOR : BELFAST
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words A low hum. Achievement of the year Professional: I had the honour of speaking on the main stage at OFFSET2013. As a freelance troglodyte, shuffling onto that stage was a giant leap out of my comfort zone. Personal: Finally getting a new base sorted after living & working out of a bin bag for the best part of a year. You don’t fully appreciate your own space until you don’t have any. Favourite piece of work Yours: I get about 4 hours on a Friday afternoon to do a weekly op-ed illustration from scratch for the next day’s Financial Times. It’s a minor triumph just to meet the deadline every week with something reasonably interesting and apt - but it means my portfolio for the year is full of illustrations that have been done within that ridiculously narrow timeframe. It’s all cobbled together so fast that when I see it in print the next day I find myself thinking ‘where the hell did that come from…?’ Someone else’s: ‘The Promise’ illustrated by Laura Carlin. www.booktrust.org.uk/books/view/33259
Favourite event Exhibition: Sidney Nolan at IMMA. I was introduced to his work by one of my tutors at art college many moons ago. His Ned Kelly paintings are about 70 years old but could have been done yesterday. Gig: Midlake at the Windsor Hotel, Bangor. Find of the year My 3-year old daughter started drawing this year and hasn’t stopped - a compulsive doodler. I’m enjoying watching her unfettered mark making… What blew your mind? My Mum told me that she met Buzz Aldrin once and shook his hand! Buzz Aldrin! What annoyed you the most? Myself. I beat myself up constantly… Biggest disappointment Not buying the creepy antique waxwork head I saw on eBay. I couldn’t justify it. I’ll have to live with that regret for the rest of my life, I suppose...
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Previous spread & left: Illustrations by Jonathan McHugh. www.beepencil.com
This page: ‘Wilder Mann’ by Charles Fréger. www.charlesfreger.com
Sidney Nolan @ IMMA. www.imma.ie/en/page_212510.htm
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Best meal The Indian takeaway I ate on the floor of my house the day I moved in. The place was gutted - no furniture, no toilet, no sink or even floors for that matter, but it was home... Stocking fillers Best song: ‘I’ll Cut You Down’ by Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats. Best album: The only full ‘album’ I bought was by Deap Vally so it’ll have to be that. Best book: ‘Wilder Mann’ - a book of amazing photographs by Charles Fréger. Best film: ‘Before Midnight’. Good to catch up with Jesse & Celine again - they’re like old friends now. Hero of 2013 The builder who fixed my house.
Villain of 2013 ‘There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.’ One thing you would have done differently? I try not to dwell on that sort of thing. It is what it is...! Most memorable moment Finishing my OFFSET talk on the Friday morning and then rushing immediately back to the hotel to wait for that day’s illustration brief from the Financial Times in London to come through - for a 5.30pm deadline the same day. My head actually melted but I don’t think anyone noticed... Thoughts for 2014? Enough yakking - Let’s boogie...!
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Girl Skateboards 20th anniversary exhibition, LA. www.girlskateboards.com
OLLY MUNDEN ILLUSTRATOR : BRIGHTON
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Busy. Brilliant. Bright.
What annoyed you the most? Not having enough time.
Achievement of the year Professional: Hand painting the Ilovedust Custom Cafe Racer Motorbike. Personal: Staying awake.
Biggest disappointment Myself at not exercising enough.
Favourite piece of work Yours: Some tee graphics I worked on for Converse. Someone else’s: I liked the work Broken Fingaz did for Chilango Mexican Resturant. Favourite event Exhibition: Ryan Callanan AKA RYCA at Ink-d, Brighton. www.ink-d.co.uk/artists/ryan-callanan-aka-ryca Also the Girl Skateboards exhibition LA. Gig: Yuck, November, Brighton. Festival: Didn’t go to any this year. Other: Brighton Tattoo Convention and a Australian contortionists group at Brighton Theatre.
Best meal The Buffalo Chicken Burger at Meat Liquor Brighton. www.meatliquor.com/brighton Stocking fillers Best song: Georgia by Yuck. Best album: California X by California X. Best book: ‘The Tattoo Colouring Book’. Best film: Mud. Hero of 2013 ‘Robert Downey Jr’ Iron Man 3. Villain of 2013 ‘Guy Pearce’ Iron Man 3.
Find of the year My Carhartt Dungarees.
One thing you would have done differently? Slept more, exercised more.
What blew your mind? Spree Park in Berlin / The drive through the Big Sur in Calirfornia.
Most memorable moment Hiking over the fence in Spree Park, and cruising the city on a push bike. Thoughts for 2014? Year of The Mutt.
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Brighton Tattoo Convention. www.brightontattoo.com www.lionworksstudios.co.uk/brighton-tattoo-convention-2011
Robert Downey Jr. is Iron Man. www.marvel.com/movies/movie/19/iron_man
AL MURPHY ILLUSTRATOR : NYC
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Becoming a father. Achievement of the year Professional: I did a little show at a friend’s store in LA and although there only about three people - including me and the store owner - at the opening, I was pleased that I managed to not totally gash it up. Personal: Walking the entire 34 mile circumference of Manhattan island in a day, hungover and fuelled only by a fried egg bagel. And it was a really horrible bagel. Favourite piece of work Yours: This picture (See across) of a big willy standing next to some graffiti saying that David Cameron is a big willy which causes the big willy great upset. OR a campaign I just completed with BBH for The Guardian to promote their online Jobs website. A rare instance where both the agency and the client are fun to work for and left me alone to do whatever I wanted. Someone else’s: An amazing picture of a dog on a sign next to my studio (See next spread).
Favourite event Exhibition: ‘The Underwater Mermaid Theatre’ by Annie Collinge at the Museum Of Southern Art in New Orleans. www.collinge.com/index.php?/projects/ the-underwater-mermaid-theatrenew Gig: I’m afraid I haven’t been to a yoot orientated social happening since the birth of my son in April. Festival: Haven’t been to any for ages. If I happened upon a teacake festival, which took place indoors and which wrapped up by 7pm I would maybe consider it, but otherwise I find festivals mildly traumatic. Other: Mike Kelley’s retrospective at MoMA PS1. It was a.m.a.z.i.n.g. www.momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/374 Find of the year A shop here in New York that sells Shreddies. What blew your mind? Finding out that Otis Redding was only 26 when he died. TWENTY SIX! What annoyed you the most? Missing out on one of those Banksy pieces he flogged off in Central Park. Just one of those would have paid a good few bills. CONTINUED >>
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KNOB KNOB KNOB
Left: The Top Gear team. www.topgear.com Right: A sign across from Al Murphy’s studio in Brooklyn.
Al Murphy for The Guardian. www.theguardian.com Next spread: ‘Spring Breakers’. www.springbreakersmovie.com
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Biggest disappointment Child birth. Everyone said it would be magical and the most special moment of my life. It wasn’t - it was horrible. Best meal Tragically, the one leaping to mind is a dirty Five Guys burger I ate on a street corner when I was really hungry. But it was one of those beautiful moments when you satisfy your hunger with a delicious, greasy hit at the exact moment it peaks. It was wonderful. I feel emotional just thinking about it. Stocking fillers Best song: Where Are We Now - David Bowie. Best album: I imagine you’re looking for something released in 2013 here but I’ve been enjoying rediscovering early era Kate Bush which I guess won’t count so I won’t mention it. Best book: ‘Building Stories’ by Chris Ware. Best film: Spring Breakers. All those bikinis. It was amazing.
Hero of 2013 Russell Brand. I used to think he was a ninny, but I very much enjoyed him mentioning Hugo Boss’ shady, Nazi uniform designing past at an event sponsored BY Hugo Boss. And then after seeing him giving Beardy Paxman a run for his money on Newsnight I was sold. Villain of 2013 That knob from Top Gear. Any of them. One thing you would have done differently? Looked away more during childbirth. Most memorable moment Being sick all over my trousers on the USS Intrepid. Thoughts for 2014? Proceed boldly.
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SPRING BREAK FOREVER, BITCHES!
‘Spring Breakers’ opening titles typography by Gentleman Scholar. www.tinyurl.com/qbyageu www.gentlemanscholar.com
‘Professor Astro Cat’s Frontiers of Space’ by Ben Newman. www.nobrow.net/14071
BEN NEWMAN ILLUSTRATOR : BRISTOL
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Rather bloody exceptional. Achievement of the year Professional: Travelling to Zurich, Bulgaria and Dublin for work. A trip away to meet new people is very fortunate but three times in one year... well, for me that is a very very happy and lucky achievement. Personal: Quitting cigarettes and starting to go running in the mornings instead. Favourite piece of work Yours: Professor Astro Cat’s Frontiers of Space. It took 2 years of my life to make so it should be my favourite, right? Someone else’s: Sister Arrow’s seasonal menu illustrations for One Leicester Street. www.itsnicethat.com/articles/one-leicester-street Favourite event Exhibition: ‘Pop Art Design’ at the Barbican. www.tinyurl.com/l3vblpo Gig: ANTA at the Black Heart in Camden. Very loud. Festival: I was too busy to go to any festivals this year. ATP would have been awesome as usual. Other: I also saw another great Daniel Kitson set. That man is very clever and naturally funny.
Best meal Rivington Burger... Best burger in London. No joke. http://tinyurl.com/kwf6n93 Stocking fillers Best song: Big Business - Lonely Lyle. Best album: ANTA - Centurionaut. Best book: Map of Days by Robert Hunter. Best film: Sightseers (not sure if it came out last year but I saw it this year.) Villain of 2013 Michael Gove. He really has a lot of terrible ideas. One thing you would have done differently? Stopped smoking sooner. Most memorable moment Hulahooping in front of over a thousand people at OFFSET 2013. It’s unlikely I will ever forget that. Thoughts for 2014? More of the same. Meeting new people, making new work. Helping others to make new work.
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Left: Rivington burger. www.rivingtonshoreditch.co.uk www.burgerac.com/2011/03/rivington-grill-shoreditch-beef-burger.html Right: Sister Arrow illustrations for One Leicester Square. www.itsnicethat.com/articles/one-leicester-street www.sisterarrow.com
Walter White from Breaking Bad. www.amctv.com/shows/breaking-bad
PETER O’DWYER ART DIRECTOR : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Inspiring, Awesome, Scary. Achievement of the year Professional: Seeing Oliviero Toscani on the main stage at OFFSET. Very inspiring man. Personal: Making lovely Chutney with Gisele for Christmas. Favourite piece of work Yours: A series of Luchador Masks customised for every member of staff at Havas. Someone else’s: A sculpture by Sean Wright called Untitled Cube, consisting of a tray of eggs supporting a solid concrete cube. Favourite event Exhibition: BEASTS OF ENGLAND, BEASTS OF IRELAND in Visual in Carlow. Festival: Really loved the Kilkenny arts festival, including all the cool stuff by Bob and Roberta Smith. Other: The other memorable event was finding a hiddend cheese maker in the hills of Kerry when we were out driving o nthe ring of Beara. Find of the year We found the most amazingly delicate wasp nest in the ceiling of our bathroom, it looks like something from a horror film. What blew your mind? The scope of work that JR has done over the last few years.
What annoyed you the most? I think I’ve purged the things that annoyed me, so I can’t think of any! Biggest disappointment The end of Breaking Bad, not because it wasn’t great, but because there’s no more to watch. Best meal Awesome feast at the Greenhouse restaurant. Stocking fillers Best song: Any Fun - Coconut Records, great video by Mark Gonzales too. Best album: It’s from 2009, but I couldn’t stop listening to Davy, by Coconut Records Best book: Saint Frank - Conor Creighton Best film: Gravity. Big Hollywood at its best. Hero of 2013 Gisele Scanlon, my better half, she’s very heroic. Villain of 2013 I can’t think of anyone I’d like to call a villain. One thing you would have done differently? I would have taken more time to paint more Most memorable moment The whole of OFFSET, inspiring and daunting. Thoughts for 2014? More painting and more building cool stuff.
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OFFSET2013 headliner JR in Times Square NYC as part of his worldwide ‘Inside Out’ project. www.jr-art.net www.vimeo.com/75214455
Giovanni Trapattoni, former manager of the Republic of Ireland. www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Trapattoni Next page: ‘Citadel’. www.imdb.com/title/tt1641975
CLÍONA O’FLAHERTY PHOTOGRAPHER : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words That was quick!
Biggest disappointment Not making the World Cup.
Achievement of the year Professional: Directing my first commercial. Personal: Writing my first short film.
Best meal Impromptu picnic with friends after a swim in the sea in Howth.
Favourite piece of work Yours: Babaa Lookbook. Someone else’s: Any of Tim Walker’s work.
Stocking fillers Best song: ‘The Mother We Share’ Chvrches. Best album: ‘151a’ Kishi Bashi. Best book: ‘This is not my hat’ Jon Klassen. Best film: Citadel.
Favourite event Exhibition: Vivian Maier Self Portrait. Gig: Slayer. Festival: Edinburgh Fringe.
Hero of 2013 Too many to mention just one.
Find of the year Thermal tights.
Villain of 2013 Too many to mention.
What blew your mind? Our sunny summer.
One thing you would have done differently? Nothing.
What annoyed you the most? Sugar in bread.
Thoughts for 2014? Here we go!
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Antoni Tapies at Palazzo Fortuny, Venice. www.tinyurl.com/pn57xbd
VAUGHAN OLIVER GRAPHIC DESIGNER : LONDON
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Best for two decades! Achievement of the year Professional: Elected to AGI Alliance Graphique internationale. Favourite piece of work Yours: Breeders’ last splash LSXX box set, Pixies new work. Favourite event Exhibition: TWO. Antoni Tapies and Shinro Ohtake at Venice Bienalle. Gig: Pixies, Hammersmith Apollo. Festival: OFFSET, Dublin. Other: Finding my old walking boots last week at the back of the cellar after missing them for 12 months and about to buy a new pair. Find of the year Ian Pollock’s new work. http://ianpollocksculpture.com What blew your mind? Antoni Tapies at Palazzo Fortuny, Venice. www.tinyurl.com/pn57xbd
Best meal Sunday roast when my boys got back together with tears and hugs. Stocking fillers Best song: Are you mine? Kim Deal. Best album: Hopkins/Creosote Diamond Mine. Best book: Ian MacFarlane Old Ways. Best film: Sorry, but it’s still Tarkovsky’s Mirror. Hero of 2013 My wife, Lee Widdows. Villain of 2013 Paulo di Canio. One thing you would have done differently? Not kissed Chip Kidd so voluptously. Most memorable moment Getting diabetic footshit onstage at OFFSET, Dublin. Thoughts for 2014? Too far away. Onward and upward I guess. And I really want the best from our students at University of Greenwich. We’re also moving into a new campus slap bang middle of Greenwich.
Biggest disappointment Not making the AGI conference in London till the last evening due to side effects from new diabetic medication. Jesus, you know where you are with narcotics.
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SIMON RAND DIGITAL DESIGNER : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words No more cheese.
Best meal Chapter One, Dublin.
Achievement of the year Professional: Releasing myself from some clients. Personal: Teaching my son the word “booby”.
Stocking fillers Best song: Ísjaki by Sigur Ros. Best album: Immunity by John Hopkins. Best book: Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, & Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston. Best film: Star Trek is the only new film I saw this year. Not saying it was good. Cumberbatch was good.
Favourite piece of work Yours: The Offset app, of course. Someone else’s: The Bridges of Dublin website Favourite event Exhibition: I never made anything I wanted to see. Gig: A Winged Victory for the Sullen, NCH. Festival: Glastonbury (on the BBC Red Button). Find of the year The South Wall, Irishtown. What blew your mind? The Internet. What annoyed you the most? The Internet. Biggest disappointment The Internet.
Hero of 2013 Edward Snowden. Villain of 2013 I won’t even start. One thing you would have done differently? More use of the Irish sun. Most memorable moment See personal achievement of the year. Thoughts for 2014? More confidence and purpose. Things are good.
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This page & next spread. ‘Chapter One, an Irish food story’ by Ross Lewis. www.chapteronerestaurant.com/product/the-cook-book
Astronaut Chris Hadfield sings Bowie in the International Space Station. http://youtu.be/KaOC9danxNo
SIMON ROCHE GRAPHIC DESIGNER : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Dublin once again. Achievement of the year Professional: Completing 13 educational iBooks for the US schools market and having one appear on screen at the Apple WWDC in June. Personal: I think I’ve de-chieved in the personal category in 2013. Favourite piece of work Yours: Afore-mentioned iBooks Someone else’s: Aoife McCardle’s video for Jon Hopkins. www.vimeo.com/65156045
Find of the year Olga Kuzmenko, a superb new live photographer working for us over at State.ie What blew your mind? Commander Hatfield singing ‘Space Oddity’. In space. *pop* http://youtu.be/KaOC9danxNo Also the black basalt beach near Vík, south coast of Iceland. Completely raw dawn-of-the-planet type place. What annoyed you the most? Re-adjusting to Irish sartorial ‘style’ on a daily basis.
Favourite event Exhibition: ‘Light Show‘ at Hayward Gallery, London. Gig: I Am Kloot – Botanique Brussels, 22 March. Mainly for the moment when they played this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQhmQQZUjdo Festival: Iceland Airwaves (yet again). Club night: Mother, Dublin. www.facebook.com/motherclub.discotheque
Biggest disappointment My commitment to exercise. Best meal Ard Bia at Nimmos, Spanish Arch, Galway – tied with – The Hare pop-up café in Temple Bar Studios. Both lunches actually. Maybe I had no great expectations but crikey, were they good. CONTINUED >>
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Stocking fillers Best song: Kate Boy: ‘The Way We Are’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1-Zl6PGjKc Best album: Vampire Weekend ‘Modern Vampires of the City’ was my summer soundtrack for a few weeks in sunny Stockholm so it gets an honourable mention, but I think I’ll be listening to Jon Hopkins’ ‘Immunity’ for the rest of my life. Perhaps the just-discovered Moonface ‘Julia with Blue Jeans On’ might pip them all though. Wolf Parade’s Spencer Krug and a piano. Skewed, brittle and lyrically untouchable. Best book: ‘The Right Stuff’ by Tom Wolfe (from 1979 but I only got around to reading it). Best film: Again, playing catch-up I just watched 2009’s ‘The Yellow Bittern – The Life and Times of Liam Clancy’ and it is theee most beautiful film and story. Everybody with a vested interest in Ireland and/or music should see it. Hero of 2013 My pal Tiffiny. Villain of 2013 My internal monologue. So demanding. One thing you would have done differently? It’s a toss-up between Everything and Nothing.
Most memorable moment Ah, but I drink to forget. (© Sack) Thoughts for 2014? Now that I’m back in Ireland I am putting Smoke & Mirrors Studio to bed and have just begun a new chapter working in Zero G. I feel pretty blessed to be dropped back in Dublin and wind up in one of my favourite studios. It’s been an exciting start to a year that I wanted to get under the skin of. I’ve hit the ground running and couldn’t ask for more as an opener. We’re pushing out the visual side of State.ie at the moment too and I’m working with some great photographers there now. Many of them have done shoots with some new acts for our Faces of 2014 e-magazine, and Rich Gilligan – who’s been shooting for us from day one – photographed Hozier for the cover. It can be read or downloaded here. http://tinyurl.com/nrkdlgk Lastly I have a new Radio Post due and if I can get my ass to work on pushing it out there it’ll be filling mailboxes all over the world before Spring. www.theradiopost.com
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Black basalt beach near Vik, south coast of Iceland. http://tinyurl.com/chnnje
RICHARD SEABROOKE GRAPHIC DESIGNER / CURATOR : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words: Glad it’s over. Achievement of the year Professional: OFFSET2013. Personal: After 40 years, with a dad as driving instructor, I have finally learned how to drive. I’ve yet to go for my test though, hopefully 2014 will be the year. Favourite piece of work Yours: Can’t decide between 3. The OFFSET Creative Project 2013, amazing to see such incredible work come together to celebrate the legacy of our event, the Oliver Jeffers book we did with Conor & David and the 3FE menuboard we did with Gavin Beattie. Someone else’s: Everything KAWS does just blows me away, the guy is a genius. Faile’s NYC Ballet installations were pretty epic too, as was Jessica Walsh’s ‘40 Days of Dating’. Favourite event Exhibition: Inside: Oliver Jeffers at Lazarides, London. Outside: Banksy’s “residency” in NYC, looked forward to it every day. Gig: Le Galaxie at The Olympia, Dublin. Electric atmosphere, pumping sounds and a crazy crowd. Other: AGI Open in London, lovely to be inspired while sitting down for the first time in ages, quite the revelation. Find of the year The last two Chris Hadfield books in Dublin before Christmas. Felt like we were buying heroin down the docks, or so I’m told. What blew your mind? My mind, totally. Christoph Niemann’s tribute to Maurice Sendak also brought a tear to my eye at AGI Open. And the antics of professional mentalist Mustand Wanted.
Biggest disappointment Jay-Z live. After seeing him with Kanye on the Watch The Throne tour, which was incredible, the year before I was expecting great things. Felt like he couldn’t care about being there, left half way through, something I’ve never done before. Best meal Countless pulled pork sambos in Bison Bar, Dublin, tiny but mighty. Also, eating and drinking with Glenn Leyburn and David Holmes in a London Vietnamese restaurant. Stocking fillers Best song: Can’t decide between 4 songs on Daft Punk’s album, both Pharrell ones, Moroder, but if I have to go for one I would say ‘Instant Crush’ (feat. Julian Casablancas). Love the song, hate the video. Best album: ‘Random Access Memories’. Best book: Still working on that. ‘Clarks in Jamaica’ is pretty cool to look at though... Best film: A dead heat between Good Vibrations and Gravity, two ends of the spectrum but equally uplifting. Hero of 2013 Pharrell. His creative ambition and positive force are pretty incredible to watch, an inspiring character. Villain of 2013 Robin Dicke, I mean, Thicke. Most memorable moment My kids, in a pool, in Spain, on the brightest blue sky day last Summer. Thoughts for 2014? Go slower. Much slower.
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KAWS 2013. www.kawsone.com
Left: Pharrell. www.pharrellwilliams.com www.24hoursofhappy.com Right: Christoph Niemann’s tribute to Maurice Sendak for the New York Times. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH2OaaktJrw
This spread: ‘Clarks in Jamaica’. www.onelovebooks.com/Clarks-in-Jamaica Next spread: ‘Fuct’ book, published by Rizzoli. www.rizzoliusa.com/book.php?isbn=9780847839667
40 days of dating. www.fortydaysofdating.com
Banksy’s month long NYC residency ‘Better Out Than In’. http://tinyurl.com/pc5g3fw
Mustang Wanted. www.mustang-wanted.com
Serge & Ruby. www.rubywax.net
SERGE SEIDLITZ ILLUSTRATOR : LONDON
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Better than 2012. Achievement of the year Professional: I worked on loads of fun commercial commissions like Ruby Wax’s book ‘Sane New World’, rebranding an Australian ice cream company and currently am designing a giant mural for an agency in California - but my favourite piece of personal work is Sergey version of Manet’s ‘Olympia’ in a Henri Rousseau style jungle. Personal: Quite a big one - I asked my girlfriend to marry me and she said yes! Favourite piece of work Yours: I was very happy with my Lush ‘FUN’ tin and some bits of work that haven’t come out yet like the ice cream tubs and some top secrety things. Someone else’s: Anything by Grayson Perry. Favourite event Exhibition: ‘The alternative guide to the universe’ at the Hayward gallery was pretty special. Gig: Terry ‘Harmonica’ Bean playing ‘til his guitar broke at Red’s bar in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Festival: I didn’t go to a single festival in 2013 Rock n’ Roll me! Other: 5x15 is a great regular London event no scripts and 15 minutes for each speaker... www.5x15stories.com Find of the year I’m a latecomer but I discovered the archives of WBEZ’s ‘This American Life’. I could (and do) listen to Ira Glass’s dulcet tones for hours on end while drawing away. What blew your mind? ‘Stuff Matters’ by Mark Miodownik - something blew my mind on every page!
What annoyed you the most? Reading the comments sections on newspapers websites. I wish they didn’t have them to tempt me. Biggest disappointment Not being able to come to Offset! Best meal I did a Deep South road trip earlier this year and had some great food on the way but the stand out meal was a BBQ deep in a forest on ‘rattlesnake creek’ in Louisiana! Stocking fillers Best song: I love this giant sad clown called Puddles Pity Party singing Lorde’s ‘Royals’. Best album: While thinking about this question I realised I’m so out of touch with new music! Does Breaking Bad have a soundtrack album? I thought the music was excellent. Best book: I read loads of good books this year but my best one that came out in 2013 was ‘The Interestings’ by Meg Walitzer, and one that didn’t come out this year but I enjoyed the most was ‘Confederacy of Dunces’ by John Kennedy Toole. Best film: I don’t think it’s been a great year for cinema but I loved ‘Blue Jasmine’ and ‘The Great Beauty’ and obviously ‘Gravity’ was v.cool! Hero of 2013 Mmmm.... Khaleesi! Villain of 2013 Grrrrr... Walter White! One thing you would have done differently? More holidays! Most memorable moment The moment just after I proposed! Thoughts for 2014? More Cowbell!
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Grayson Perry tapestry. http://tinyurl.com/cjtdlh
Left: Serge Seidlitz version of Manet’s ‘Olympia’ in a Henri Rousseau style jungle.
Right: Serge Seidlitz for Lush Cosmetics. http://tinyurl.com/p8wyk2k
IAN STEVENSON ILLUSTRATOR : LONDON
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words WTF OMG LOL. Sorry my English is really bad now I don’t even know what words are. Achievement of the year Professional: Getting paid. Personal: Buying food. Favourite piece of work Yours: A canvas of Jesus Christ as an alarm clock with the text ‘Time To Rise’ on it. www.tinyurl.com/kskny79 And also painting the word ‘Art’ on a skip. Someone else’s: It’s the ones doing stencil street art you’ve got to keep watching. They are going to be big next year, you mark my words. As long as it contains a pop icon combined with a popular anti-corporate, antiglobalization ideal and some drips, it will be irresistible. Favourite event Exhibition: I didn’t go to many to be honest but I did enjoy looking around pound shops. Gig: I went to pubs instead. Festival: Didn’t do that either. Find of the year Beautiful cheap mugs in charity shops promoting local businesses in a clip art style. What blew your mind? I went Go Karting and that was like flying around in a little spaceship.
What annoyed you the most? Photos of cats and food on the internet, WTF! Fuck your cat and fuck your food and fuck off while fucking yourself you fucking fuck… and breath. Sooo cute, ‘Like’. Stocking fillers Best song: Everything that One Direction do, Aaaaaah! Scream! Scream! OMG they are so Totally Amazing. There will never be another band exactly like them ever again. Best book: I get excited looking through the office stationary catalogue. Best film: MacGruber, it came out in 2010 got 2 1/2 stars and is a classic for sure. www.tinyurl.com/m5luky Best TV: Lizard Lick Towing, it is genius and I’m not just throwing that word around lightly. Hero of 2013 Not those male celebrities from the 80’s that have been in the news recently being accused of ‘allegedly’ doing ‘bad things’. I thought their jokes were bad but it turns out that might not be the worst thing about them. Most memorable moment I forgotten it. Thoughts for 2014? Have another go.
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Left: Money by Ian Stevenson.
Right: Public art by Ian Stevenson.
When cats ruled the internet.
WTF! OMG! LOL!
More of Ian Stevenson’s art.
STEVE SIMPSON ILLUSTRATOR : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Busy, busy, busy!
What annoyed you the most? Property tax!
Achievement of the year Professional: ICAD Gold Bell for Mic’s Chilli. www.micschilli.ie Personal: Homemade ‘Green Tomato Chutney’.
Stocking fillers Best song: ‘Pale Green Ghosts’ John Grant Best album: Arctic Monkeys ‘AM’. Best book: Morrissey Autobiography. Best film: THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS. Best TV: Breaking Bad.
Favourite piece of work Yours: Spongebob Squarepants (See across). Someone else’s: Victo Ngai’s ‘Koi Dance’ (next page). Favourite event Exhibition: Illustrators Ireland’s ‘Art of Superstition’ exhibition at the Copper House Gallery. Gig: John Grant at EP13. Festival: Electric Picnic. Find of the year 1914 illustrated edition of ‘Alice through the looking Glass’.
Hero of 2013 Walter White. Most memorable moment Second Room, OFFSET13. Rob Newman informing me “skulls are so 2010!” damn cheek :) Thoughts for 2014? OFFSET2014 - Can’t wait!
What blew your mind? Love OFFSET’s Second Room, my favourite ‘In Conversation’ from last year had to be Vaughan Oliver in conversation with Adrian Shaughnessy. What a legend!
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Left: Morrissey ‘Autobiography’. http://tinyurl.com/leqwoe9 Right: ‘The Pirates. Band Of Misfits’. www.imdb.com/title/tt1430626 Next spread: ‘The Art of Superstition’ group show curated by Illustrators Ireland. www.thecopperhousegallery.com/exhibitions/42/overview
THE STONE TWINS GRAPHIC DESIGNERS : AMSTERDAM
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Over and Out.
Biggest disappointment Ireland’s performances under Trapattoni.
Achievement of the year Professional: Convincing a printer of the legibility of type set at 3.25pt (for a postage stamp). Personal: Garech’s 3-year-old son riding a two-wheel bike. Declan mastering a Moroccan Fish Tagine.
Best meal Nectar, insect and plant sap pie.
Favourite piece of work Yours: ‘UNESCO Dublin City of Literature’ Stamp for An Post. Someone else’s: Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin’s ’Holy Bible’. Favourite event Exhibition: Dan Perjovschi at the Van Abbemuseum. Gig: Kraftwerk playing at the spectacular Evoluon in Eindhoven. A close second was an intimate set by Karl Hyde in an Amsterdam church. Festival: Pitch, Amsterdam. Find of the year An obscure Pygmy Grasshopper on our roof. What blew your mind? Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition at Kunsthal, Rotterdam. What annoyed you the most? Facebook sluts.
Stocking fillers Best song: ‘The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)’ by Ylvis. Best album: Now That’s What I Call Music II. Best book: ‘How Are You Feeling?: At the Centre of the Inside of the Human Brain’ by David Shrigley. Best film: The Master. Hero of 2013 Edward Snowden. Villain of 2013 Edward Snowden. One thing you would have done differently? Ironed a favourite black shirt with a cooler setting. Most memorable moment Talking to our creative hero Oliviero Toscani with our parents at OFFSET2013. Thoughts for 2014? Be kind.
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The Stone Twins for An Post, Ireland (Actual size). http://tinyurl.com/nnk6k4c
Left: Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin’s ’Holy Bible’. www.mackbooks.co.uk/books/68-Holy-Bible.html Right: ‘How Are You Feeling?: At the Centre of the Inside of the Human Brain’ by David Shrigley. http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-are-You-Feeling-Centre/dp/0857867210
KEVIN WALDRON ILLUSTRATOR : NYC
Achievement of the year Professional: Another children’s book published. Personal: Moving studio maybe, a change was in order. What blew your mind? A friend showed me Andrew Chuaniho’s work recently and that knocked the wind out of me (See across). www.ndrewchuaniho.com Best meal Soppy, but my wife is a fantastic cook.
Stocking fillers Best book: Christophe Blain ‘La fille’ (I haven’t read it yet!). Best film: 12 Years A Slave. One thing you would have done differently? I learned a lot trying to make things that didn’t really work. So for 2014 I want to trust more in my drawing and my instincts and not smother an idea in details.
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‘12 Years A Slave’ directed by Steve McQueen. www.12yearsaslave.com
CIARAN WALSH JOURNALIST / CURATOR : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Don’t ask permission. Achievement of the year Professional: Setting up content, creative and digital sales agency - Sweatshop.ie Personal: Quit smoking. Again. Favourite piece of work Yours: Bagging exclusive media partnership in Ireland and UK for Malcolm Gladwell’s new book tour. Someone else’s: Torn between Niall McCormack’s piece for the IGI’s Illustrated Beatles Show, ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ and Steve Doogan’s Little Green Cars cover. Favourite event Exhibition: Richard Mosse’s ‘The Enclave’ exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Gig: The Pharcyde (supported by The Animators) at The Sugar Club. Festival: OFFSET! Other: ‘Altered’ - National Music Day in Christ Church Cathedral - http://vimeo.com/69610344 Find of the year Toronto Mayor, Tom Ford. What blew your mind? Dead heat between 3D Printing and Sugru. What annoyed you the most? There was a creaky floorboard in my old flat, no matter what I tried it couldn’t be avoided or fixed. Drove me demented. Biggest disappointment David Bowie’s new material.
Best meal An overnight stay with dinner and breakfast in Clone House www.clonehouse.com Stocking fillers Best song: Come On Live Long - Little Ones http://vimeo.com/58833945 Best album: The Animators ‘Drawn Together’ Best book: ‘The Night of The Gun’ - David Carr (Published 2008, but only read it this year) Best film: Gravity. Hero of 2013 My wife, Kate Nolan, from We Are Islanders. www.weareislanders.com Villain of 2013 Bashar al-Assad. One thing you would have done differently? Got off my phone more to pick up a book and quit smoking earlier. Most memorable moment There was a week in May where Le Cool turned four, we launched Sweatshop, had a booklet in the Irish Times, my wife was on Drive Time radio handing Penney’s ass back to them after a factory collapse in Bangladesh and we bought a house. Years from now I look back and think that was our finest hour. Thoughts for 2014? I’m coming at you, 2014, like you owe me money, and you do.
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First spread: David Bowie The Next Day’. www.davidbowie.com Previous spread (left): 3D printing. Previous spread (right): We Are Islanders. www.weareislanders.com Left: Niall McCormack for ‘Illustrated Beatles’ show. home.hitone.ie/filter/Record-Covers/ProcessPro Right: Sugru. www.sugru.com Next spread: Richard Mosse ‘The Enclave’. www.richardmosse.com/works Last spread: Tom Ford, Mayor of Toronto. www.huffingtonpost.ca/news/robford
DAVID WALL GRAPHIC DESIGNER : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Were you there? Achievement of the year Professional: Launching the 100 Archive at Offset was a huge moment — and the start of loads more work. Personal: I got married! No contest there. Favourite piece of work Yours: No favourites, only differing levels of relief to have work completed. On those terms, getting our studio website updated was the winner. http://www. conoranddavid.com/ Someone else’s: The video for Birdy Nam Nam ‘Defiant Order’ by Nicolas Davenel http://www. nicolasdavenel.com www.vimeo.com/59528715 Favourite event Exhibition: The Pivot Point mobile exhibition unit by CAST Architecture was absolutely beautiful. http://castarchitecture.ie/?project=pivot-point-2 Festival: Seems like I should be going to more gigs and festivals, no stand-out memories.
Best meal I had a steak in Naples that causes spontaneous salivary action whenever I think about it. Stocking fillers (Not all brand new. Some of these I encountered for the first time in 2013). Best song: ‘Money Trees’ by Kendrick Lamar. Best album: WoWos, we designed the cover so we’ve been listening to it all summer, but it’s only coming out at the start of December. This should be everyone’s Christmas present to themselves (See across). http://seancarpio.bandcamp.com/album/wowos Best book: ‘Born Standing Up’ by Steve Martin. Best film: ‘Django Unchained’. Hero of 2013 Werner Herzog’s short documentary ‘From One Second To The Next’ on texting and driving should be seen by everyone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BqFkRwdFZ0 Villain of 2013 Anyone who texts and drives.
Find of the year Everpix — An amazingly well realised photo storage service.
One thing you would have done differently? Nothing! Always forward, never back.
What blew your mind? An wonderful interview with Milton Glaser: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD1bcGwa3QQ
Most memorable moment The first dance at my wedding. Soppy but true.
What annoyed you the most? Everpix (see above) going out of business!
Thoughts for 2014? It’s an interesting time to be alive, a great time to be a designer, and I plan to make the most of both.
Biggest disappointment That I never made it to any festivals, this is on the list for Summer 2014.
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First spread: WoWos cover by Conor & David. www.seancarpio.bandcamp.com/album/wowos Left (top): Birdy Nam Nam ‘Defiant Order’ video by Nicolas Davenel. www.nicolasdavenel.com www.vimeo.com/59528715 Left (bottom): Pivot Point mobile exhibition unit designed by CAST Architecture. www.castarchitecture.ie/?project=pivot-point-2s Right (top): The 100 Archive site. www.100archive.com Right (bottom): WoWos sleeve and vinyl design. www.seancarpio.bandcamp.com/album/wowos Last spread: Conor & David’s new site. www.conoranddavid.com
NATHALIE WEADICK DIRECTOR / CURATOR : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words New Now Next. Achievement of the year Professional: Curating an exhibition in the Irish Museum of Modern Art that took an unconventional take on the ‘architecture’ exhibition. Personal: Opening up a savings account, hadn’t had one since my first communion. Favourite piece of work Yours: The Archizine Competition set up to tap into the zine culture and increase the volume of alternative architecture publishing in Ireland. Someone else’s: Tom DePaor and Peter Maybury’s film ‘These Islands’ about an unauthorized development on Achill Island. Favourite event Beatrice Galilee’s ‘Close, Closer’ exhibition for the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Very experimental, refreshing and controversial. What blew your mind? The eloquent and inspiring presentations by the children of same sex relationships at the Constitutional Convention on gay marriage in April. Totally blew the anti-gay marriage lobby groups out of the water.
Best meal Vietnamese Community Centre, off Kingsland Road Hackney, London. Best song: ‘Easier To Hide’ Maya Jane Coles. Best album: ‘Comfort’ by Maya Jane Coles. Best film: Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer. Hero of 2013: Malala Yousafzai. Villain of 2013: Charles Saatchi One thing you would have done differently? I would have asked more questions. Most memorable moment Tatiana Bilbao at an IAF event presenting on the ostentatious style of architecture built by large-scale distributors of illegal drugs in Mexico known as ‘Neo-narcotecture’. Thoughts for 2014? Don’t settle.
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First spread: A collection of Archizines. www.archizines.com This spread: Tom DePaor & Peter Maybury’s film ‘These Islands’, about an unauthorized development on Achill Island. www.vimeo.com/78117173 Next spread: Mexican ‘Neo-narcotecture’. www.tinyurl.com/mb3ww44
KARLSSON WILKER GRAPHIC DESIGNERS : NYC
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words The best yet.
Biggest disappointment Nothing.
Achievement of the year Professional: Not a single Sunday in the office. Personal: Played a lot of tennis.
Best meal Fresh handmade pasta at home.
Favourite piece of work Yours: Not applicable. Someone else’s: David O’Reilly’s ‘Adventure Time’ episode. Favourite event Exhibition: Adrian Villar Rojas at the Serpentine Gallery, London. Gig: Khaela Maricich at The Kitchen, NY. Find of the year New friends. What blew your mind? Nature. What annoyed you the most? Nothing.
Stocking fillers Best song: CGI Dolphin, by Big Legs (Junior Aspirin Records). Best book: Little Golden America, Ilf & Petrov. Best film: Turin Horse (2011). Hero of 2013 Not applicable. Villain of 2013 Not applicable. One thing you would have done differently? I should have been more relaxed this one specific time. Most memorable moment Mexico. Thoughts for 2014? I’m looking forward.
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This spread: David O’Reilly for ‘Adventure Time’. www.davidoreilly.com/projects/adventure-time Next spread: Andy Murray wins Wimbledon. www.bbc.com/sport/0/tennis/23217393
JOHNNY WINSLADE ART DIRECTOR : LONDON
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Unlucky for some.
Best meal Hot wings at Fire on the Mountain in Portland.
Achievement of the year Professional: Breakin’ necks and cashin’ cheques. Personal: Making the first year as a married man.
Stocking fillers Best song: Black Skinhead. Best album: Yeezus. Best book: ‘Be the worst you can be’ Charles Saatchi. Best film: Argo.
Favourite piece of work Yours: A Nike pitch that never saw the light of day. Someone else’s: The Tattoo Colouring Book. Favourite event Exhibition: Simon Hantaï at the Pompidou. Gig: Magna Carter.
Hero of 2013 Hank Schrader. Villain of 2013 The tax man.
Find of the year Walter - Our french bulldog
One thing you would have done differently? Been less annoyed.
What blew your mind? Nothing! Shame on you 2013.
Most memorable moment Getting lost in Paris.
What annoyed you the most? The previous question.
Thoughts for 2014? What am I going to wear?
Biggest disappointment Great Gatsby.
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Left: Kanye West ‘Yeezus’. www.kanyewest.com Right: Script cover from ‘Argo’. www.argothemovie.warnerbros.com www.warnerbros2012.com/screenings/assets/argo.pdf http://tinyurl.com/as5aap3
LANCE WYMAN GRAPHIC DESIGNER : NYC
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words A Good Year. Achievement of the year Professional: Finish the re-design of the Washington Metro map. Personal: Teach Granddaughter Maia how to wink. Favourite piece of work Yours: SEGD 40th anniversary poster (See across). Someone else’s: Mexican designer Adriaan Schalkwijks photo exhibit “instalación QF” based on the mythological Mexican “quetzalcoatl”. www.noticias.arquired.com.mx/shwArt.ared?idArt=1690
Best meal We renovated our kitchen so Neila has made a lot of “Best meals”. Stocking fillers Best song: The Keith Jarrett intro to ‘All the things you are’ on the ‘Keith Jarrett Trio: Tribute’ album. Best album: Finding the old ‘Duke Ellington’s Jazz Violin Sessions’ album. Best book: ‘1493’ by Charles G. Mann. Best film: The ‘Detective Montalbano’ Italian TV series.
Favourite event Exhibition: Anselm Kiefer MASS MoCA opening.
Hero of 2013 Malala Yousafzai from Afghanistan who is speaking out while recovering from being shot by the Taliban.
Find of the year A Mythological Chinese Kirin plate at a market in Beijing
Villain of 2013 All of us for not finding a way to get along without war
What blew your mind? Sharing the podium of a workshop with Margaret Calvert. I have always admired the UK road sign system she designed with Jock Kinneir.
One thing you would have done differently? Have more fun exploring my New York.
What annoyed you the most? Stories of people looting after our terrible storm Sandy. Biggest disappointment Our Union Station wayfinding design program was cancelled after Washington had a minor earthquake that caused structural damage to the station.
Most memorable moment When the Lads from OFFSET visited New York. Thoughts for 2014? Welcome.
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