One of my favourite Irish photographers, Richard Gilligan is seriously talented and a straight up bloke to boot. Be sure to stop by his recently updated site: http://www.richgilligan.com/

I stumbled across this a while back. Check out the bonkers artwork by Zhou Fan. I love it. It reminds me of some of Alex Trochut’s typography and illustrations. Here's a link to Zhou’s artwork: http://www.zhoufanart.com/

Some tight street art and photos by Atlas

Interesting visual showing the progression of Cadbury’s packaging.

Once a year I make my way back to my old college (the National College of Art and Design) to have a gawk at graduate art and meet old mates. As I studied Visual Communications while attending the college, I have a keen interest in the graduates’ work in this department.

I clocked the above poster while strolling through town on my way to work yesterday. I punched in the web address on my phone and it turns out its promoting the vis com grad class in NCAD. I love the piece. Nice and punchy wood block type, with an ambiguous, interactive element to it. Smart.

On the web page there's a link to the designer of the poster, Ross Coghlan – http://cargocollective.com/rosscoghlan For a graduate – in fact, regardless of that – he has a very strong body of work. Download his portfolio, it would put plenty of Dublin designers to shame. I got in contact with him about the poster and he explained that 150 of them were printed using letterpress type. As if they weren't nice enough already.

I received the poster above during the week. 7 colour silk-screen, it is something else. Money well, well spent. Here's a few links to some great poster shops online:
http://burlesquedesign.com/storeintl.htm
http://www.blanka.co.uk/
http://www.thesmallstakes.com/

Poolga is a great iPhone, iTouch and iPad free wallpaper site I stumbled across last week. Heaps of visual awesomeness all over the shop. http://poolga.com/