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LeCool

The two of us live and work in Dublin. We’re obviously passionate about design but we’re also excited about what goes on in all the other arts in our city, and we’re delighted be frequent contributors to Le Cool, a free weekly internet magazine.

Double Portrait

Colm MacAthlaioch is an artist, illustrator, gallery director, musician, designer and a fierce handsome fella. Just before he headed off to London recently he came into our studio for lunch and made this delightful double portrait.

Simon Critchley

Prof. Simon Critchley delivering a lecture on Beguine mystical anarchism at Glendalough. [2/8/09] The ‘mystical anarchism’ event took place on a quilt specifically constructed for this project, the quilt was conceived by gradcam researcher Clodagh Emoe as a platform for various interactions and activities

Wounded Knees

A one night only gig and a one night only art installation upstairs in Whelans. The band, The Wounded Knees, is composed of 4 musicians; Jimi Shields (Rollerskate Skinny, Lotus Crown, Martina Topley-Bird), Suzanne Thorpe (Mercury Rev), Phil Williams (Hopewell) and Mickey Pinaud (Airiel).

Rietveld Chair

We had a student made reproduction of Rietveld’s Red Blue chair in our College Library so his was probably the first designer chair we actively engaged with (i.e. sat on). Andrew has been making miniatures of his furniture for years in addition to collecting scale models of other classic furniture designs. It was only a matter of time before we had a go ourselves.

now what?

now what? is a series of multi-disciplinary public conversations & workshops. The entire initiative is to operate as a think-tank and run on a voluntary basis. Gearoid has been working with one of the now what? work groups called ‘From the ground up’ since July.