OFFSET2010 are beyond thrilled to announce that Jim Carroll (The Irish Times, OTR) will be conducting a very special interview with DJ SHADOW in our second room on Friday 1st of October at 5PM before he takes the stage at Tripod that evening for his amazing live show.

The interview will range from his creative ‘cut & paste’ music style, his collaborations with photographers, designers and film makers like Ben Drury, Will Bankhead, Paul Insect, B+, Marc Singer and Kar Wai Wong to his current visual rich live stage show. We really feel privileged as while Shadow’s profile has never been higher, he has increasingly shied away from music press and traditional forms of social networking.

OFFSET2010 are delighted to announce an in-depth conversation between Lance Wyman and Linda King in our second room on Saturday October 2nd at 1300hrs.

In a distinguished career spanning four decades, Lance Wyman has received countless awards, runs a prominent design office and is credited with helping to define the field of environmental graphic design. He is a specialist in branding/wayfinding systems for public environments. Wyman’s logo for the Mexico 68 Olympics remains one of the most enduring icons of 20th century graphic design.

Linda King teaches Design History and Theory at IADT.

Lance Wyman main stage presentation takes place Sunday October 3rd at 1100hrs.

OFFSET2010 in association with ICAD present George Lois in a special Q&A session in our second room Sunday October 3rd at 1600hrs.. Moderated by Fionn Davenport (Culture Shock, Newstalk) with an introduction from Pearse McCaughey (ICAD President) it promises to be an engaging occasion with a true legend and a great character.

Lois has a reputation of being among the greatest innovators in advertising: he put MTV on the map with the ‘I want my MTV’ campaign; brought the Tommy Hilfiger brand to international attention; and renamed Stouffer’s frozen foods products, Lean Cuisine and of course his iconic covers for Esquire remain icons in publishing.

George Lois’s main stage presentation takes place Saturday October 2nd at 1800hrs.

The full Main Stage schedule for OFFSET2010 is now online. There is an intensive programme of presentations planned for the Main Room Stage as well as daily screenings of short films and animations curated by Darklight. They are also delighted to be showing a screening of I’m Here, a creative collaboration between Spike Jonze and ABSOLUT Vodka.

Programming for the second room at the conference is ongoing but will feature breakout sessions, Q&A’s, workshops, smaller presentations and more we’re still working on. Details in the next couple of days.

When we drew up the inaugural wish list of speakers for OFFSET I knew the first person I wanted to invite was Dave McKean. So it was a great thrill and honour when he said ‘YES’. We have uploaded the video of his presentation which is available for your enjoyment. So…enjoy.

Dave McKean has illustrated many award winning comics and books, including The Big Fat Duck Cookbook (Heston Blumenthal), What’s Welsh For Zen (John Cale), Varjak Paw (SF Said), The Savage (David Almond), Arkham Asylum (Grant Morrison), The Homecoming (Ray Bradbury), Wizard and Glass (Stephen King), The Graveyard Book, Wolves in the Walls, Coraline, Mr. Punch, Signal to Noise and Crazy Hair (all by Neil Gaiman). He also created the incredible covers for the entire award winning Sandman comic series.

Oliver Jeffers makes art. From figurative painting and installation to  illustration and picture-book making, his work has been exhibited and  published in New York, Dublin, London, Sydney, Washington DC, Belfast  and elsewhere. His picture books, including Lost and Found, The Incredible Book Eating  Boy, and most recently, The Great Paper Caper. Oliver was brought up in  Northern Ireland and now lives and works in Brooklyn (hence the mustache!).

Enjoy this talk from OFFSET last year and don’t miss out this year by getting your ticket now!

Anthony Burrill is an independent designer and illustrator who works in a broad range of activities, including print, film and internet. His talk was much anticipated and he was a great presence throughout the weekend… especially at the OFFSET party, who knew he could dance as well as he can design!?

You can check out his talk online here. Unfortunately there is no video of his dance floor exploits.

So time is ticking ever closer to OFFSET2010 on October 1-3 and we still have a few more exciting additions to our main stage lineup to announce over the next few weeks.

But first, to celebrate the launch of our new look website we have introduced a GROUP RATE this year. You can now book 5 tickets for the price of 4, that’s a saving of 30 euro per ticket on the current EARLY BIRD price of 150euro. So talk to your friends and work colleagues and put your heads together, you know it makes sense.

Our EARLY BIRD offer is limited and will run until September 1st or until the allocated number of tickets run out. We will try to alert you all if the numbers are running low. After the EARLY BIRD offer finishes the GROUP RATE will revert to the Full Price, still a saving but obviously the sooner you buy your tickets the better.. so hopefully as many of you as possible can join us.

THE LINEUP
We are thrilled to be welcoming so many of our favourite creatives to Dublin for OFFSET2010 including George Lois, Mark Farrow, Lance Wyman, Emily Forgot, Nate Williams, Martin Haake, David O’Reilly, Studio AKA and so many more. For the full lineup as it stands currently just visit the speakers page but we will be announcing a couple more names to that list soon.

STILL MORE TO COME
OFFSET2010 will see a week-long programme of club-nights, live performances, presentations, gallery shows and in-store events taking place throughout the capital, showcasing world-class designers, musicians, fashion designers, illustrators, street artists — and much, much more.

We will announcing some exciting nighttime events over the coming weeks so make sure you join our mailing list to make you don’t miss anything.

Hope to see you all soon!
Bren, Richard and Peter

http://www.iloveoffset.com

We are very excited and honoured to announce the addition of George Lois - advertising executive, designer and artist to the OFFSET2010 lineup. George is the brains behind a plethora of popular and industry defining campaigns (including “I Want My MTV”), but he is perhaps best known for the covers he produced for Esquire from 1962 to 1972.

Here is a great article by George as he describes his normal day on Madison Avenue in the 60’s. It has been said that George was one of the inspirations for the Don Draper character in TV’s Mad Men.

For more details on the OFFSET2010 lineup and how to avail of our early bird and student ticket offer visit the OFFSET2010 site.