Exciting news - Back to the Start won some things! A pencil from D&AD, a Grandy, six cubes from the Art Directors Club, a Grand Clio, and Creative Review's Annual gave it Best in Book.
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The Het Klokhuis title sequence is included in an exhibition organised by The Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum. The moving image section is curated by Ian Albinson from Art of the Title.
The exhibition runs at Governors Island, NYC from May 26, 2012 – Sept 3, 2012.
Back to the Start is one of TED's ads worth spreading this year. It's a very impressive collection of films, so we're really thrilled to be included.
Come to Dublin! Offset is an astounding annual-ish festival of design, illustration and photography. I'll be on stage muttering at some point but there are far better reasons to attend as evidenced by the line-up.
I did a pretty in-depth interview with RedBubble, about design, animation, creative block, and the making of Chipotle's 'Back to the Start' film.
A still from The Seed was kindly featured on the cover of Papercraft 2, published by Gestalten. Its an exciting and comprehensive collection of paper-inspired work from the last few years.
Myself and my wife Ailbhe Keogan have been awarded the Screen Writers' Loan by the Irish Film Board. This means they give us a chunk of money so that we can pay ourselves to write for a few months. Then if the the film gets made, we have to pay them back. If it doesn't we don't. The screenplay is called Found, and will be amazing, and I'm sure we'll pay them back their money.
I'll be part of an panel of creatives at D&AD New Blood 2011 on July 4th, offering advice and portfolio reviews to students. The event is curated by Jamie Wieck who has written an astoundingly comprehensive tweetable guide to post-graduation called #the50.
Nike78 asked me to "challenge the function of a pair of Nike trainers" which I promptly did by removing function entirely, and repainting a pair of clogs.
Studio Music 'provides an insight into the creative process of visual practitioners, through the music that they listen to whilst working'. There is a great collection of mixtapes you can listen to on the website, alongside a contribution of semi-easy-listening from me.
The supernice people at It's Nice That asked me and two other guests of my choosing to give a presentation in central London last week. I asked graphic designer David McFarline photographer Marco Bohr - both of which are available to watch on the site too.
