An Irish Design – a creative response
In my previous post on the theme of An Irish Design I asked the question: is it time to put Ireland back at the…
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An Irish Design
Is it time to put Ireland back at the centre of European design? ‘La Tène Culture lifts the Celts from being just another of…
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The democracy of design
Fictitious Mad Men account director Pete Campbell was unceremoniously removed from the Chevy account when the clients found out he couldn’t drive a car…
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Les Revenants – TV comes back from the dead
We shouldn’t be surprised that the French TV series Les Revenants seems so different, with an intriguing narrative and elevated production values. French cinema…
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Don’t fight Game Of Thrones, it’ll cut your heart out and eat it
I’d been fighting against Game Of Thrones for some time. I saw it as a sub Lord Of The Rings sword and sorcery also-ran…
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Elementary – the rebranding of Sherlock Holmes
There was a bit of a ballyhoo when it was announced there was going to be yet another TV version of Arthur Conan Doyle’s…
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Mad Men new season – dramatizing the creative process
In the first episode of Man Men series 6 there’s an interesting examination of the creative process intertwined in the lives of the advertising…
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Inspector Montalbano
If you’ve never seen Inspector Montalbano what have you been doing? For the uninitiated it’s an Italian television series produced and broadcast by RAI…
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The Secret of Kells
The Secret of Kells is one of the most visually arresting animated features of the past decade and easily the best Irish animation of…
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