Portfolio for IMMA Exhibition team

1.
Project:
The Douglas Hyde rebrand
Work: Brand identity and environmental design
Client: The Douglas Hyde
Manufacturer: Think Design
When: 2020–2021  
2.
Project:
The Quickening – Deirdre O’Mahony
Work: Title design, publication and signage.
Client: The Douglas Hyde 
When: 2024
3.
Project: How do we start?
Work: Publication, identity and signage
Client: Project Arts Centre
When: 2022
4.
Project: A Vague Anxiety
Work: Group show publication
Client: IMMA
When: 2019



 
1
Project: The Douglas Hyde rebrand
Work: Brand Identity and Environmental Design
Client: The Douglas Hyde
Manufacturer: Think Design
When: 2020–2021  

Brand


The Douglas Hyde Gallery is a jewel in Dublin’s arts scene; it just needs to proclaim itself more proudly, joyfully and visibly and to project a warm welcome to all.

We were commisoned for a major rebrand and website project for The Douglas Hyde Gallery in 2020.

A gallery in essence is an architectural space, thus the identity was inspired by aspects of its architectural features. The concrete ceiling of the gallery and the Trinity Arts Block became the catalyst for the logo and subsequently the brand identity and look and feel of the website. The rounded shape of the ceiling cells create a tension between sharpness and smoothness and of the negative and positive space.





Signage

An important part of this comprehensive rebrand was to design low impact signage for the entrance, foyer and some designated exterior points to guide visitors through the Trinity campus as well as to welcome passersbys into the percieved intimtidating gallery space. All signage is movable, lightweight and vinyls can be pieled off and replaced whilst stands and structured can be used again and again. The signage is made of orange perspex and the entrance window fronts and covered in an orange vinyl to contrast with the gray concrete.






2.
Project: The Quickening – Deirdre O’Mahony
Work: Title design, publication and signage.
Client: The Douglas Hyde 
When: 2024 (Bureau Bonanza)

Publication

Bringing together urgent conversations, original music and moving image, The Quickening responds to issues facing farming, food production and consumption, in the face of present ecological and climate crises.

Through conversations with the artist and the gallery director we made associations with the design of  publications such as Ireland’s Own, Irish Farmers Journal and Old Moore’s Almanac as well as retro title designs for Nationwide and other tv programs on the topic of Irish farming and rural life. 








Title design and signage

The title font echoes the paralell tracks that plowing machines make in the soil and the rows of growing crops. Drone footage of these patterns featured prominently in the video work that was the main piece of the exhibition. 

 



3.
Project: How do we start?
Work: Publication, identity and signage
Client: Project Arts Centre, Cian O’Brien and Maeve Stone
When: 2022 (Bureau Bonanza)

How do you encompass the challenges of the climate emergency for the Arts & Culture, the impact it is going to have on the way we work and how can artists play a role in leading this conversation?

Commissioned by the Project Arts Centre, How Do We Start? explores how they as a cultural institution can approach a more sustainable way of existing in the world and how to support artists to lead the way by collaborating and bringing their dynamic skills to bear on the problem.

The artists’s work explore the question ‘How Do We Start?’ in ways of practical instructions, poetry, speculations, image making, and language. 

We were inspired by the pragmatic and instructional nature of the artist contributions to base the design on Make-and-Do-Books from our childhood. The aesthetic of these books with their bold colours and framed text and images became a starting point for the book. 

On the cover the question ‘How Do We Start?’ expands out into a maze from several directions and explores ways of answering itself. This theme was extended further in the promotional elements of the project.
Publication



4.
Project: A Vague Anxiety
Work: Group show publication
Client: IMMA
When: 2019 

The exhibition title reflected on the rising levels of anxiety in our media-driven lives and how many of these concerns are constantly, and somewhat vaguely in the backdrop of our daily existence.

The group exhibition of nine emerging Irish and international artists addressed some of the broader concerns of Generation Y; from political points of departure such as borders, housing, and the environment, to the personal such as mental health, hook-up culture, gender identity and precarity; pressing issues in today’s society.

Inspired by our initial conversation with the curators of the show, where we discussed the non-linear reading habits of Generation Y, we created a coverless ring-bound publication that is designed to be read from any point within the book with no definite beginning or end. Not so much without a cover, but with many — for as it could be open on any page, every page potentially became a cover, giving the impression that we had made several different books and each contributing artist had a little book of their own.
Having worked together producing an exhibition catalogue that pulled together content from disparate sources and in varying media, Bureau Bonanza created a beautiful end product with no fuss.

They were receptive to our needs and ideas while having a clear vision of what the finished work would look like. The process was clear, and the outcome looks great.


Benjamin Stafford, Assistant Curator, IMMA


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