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.
