Setanta and the Hound: Design for Croke Park Hurling Final 2001

Setanta and the Hound Design Croke Park 2001
I came across several shelves’ worth of old drawings and designs tonight. This one was an artist’s impression for a proposal that the then Mac Teo (now Arcana) was putting to Croke Park for interval entertainment at the 2001 Hurling Final. It was a retelling of the Setanta and the Hound myth and the proposal eventually took life like this:

Thinking of buying a laptop? Steer clear of Dell Studios.

Round about this time last year I bought a Dell Studio 1735. On the experience of that purchase I’ll never buy Dell again: this badly designed, unresponsive piece of plastic has expunged me of any trust in any other Dell products. Firstly, the keyboard has the most dreadful action of any keys I’ve ever pressed, … Read more

Firefox doing stamps now?

I honestly thought I’d got a letter from Firefox this morning. The stamp is massive and every time I glance at I see the Firefox logo. It’s a thing in design that sometimes when you get that click in the brain that says finished, it’s actually saying, this is sufficiently similar to some good design … Read more

Storyboard for a Short Film on YouTube

This is a storyboard for a short film I worked on with some friends last year. They’re due to start shooting it in May having secured some funding, so I popped it up on YouTube. I’m going to put up the trailer they made when I get my hands on it, and hopefully the finished short. It’ll be interesting to see the page-to-screen process.