Last year's inaugural Offset Festival, a weekend-long celebration of creativity in design, illustration, photography, fashion, publishing, advertising, animation and, well, you get the idea, was one of the most inspired events of 2009. This year's edition, which takes place across Dublin from October 1st to 3rd, promises to be bigger and bolder: guests of note include hip-hop deity DJ Shadow (in discussion with Irish Timesdeity Jim Carroll) and old-school Mad Man George Lois.
He is the legendary art director who brought us the seminal Esquire magazine covers of the 1960s (including the image of Muhammad Ali as St Sebastian, pictured above). Lois also put music television on the map with the I Want My MTV campaign and came up with the name lean cuisine. The home team is also in full effect with Dublin-born, Berlin-based animator David OReilly, winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for his delicious cartoon Please Say Something; fashion photographer Linda Brownlee; and prolific local collective Synth Eastwood.Our must-see: Spike Jonze’s new short film I’m Here, a heartbreaking tale of robot love that will fry your circuits. iloveoffset.com
