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Shout out… to our Design contributor Richard Seab
rooke who is creative director of Kaleidoscope, Ireland’s first ever camping festival for families. The music and arts jamboree is on at Russborough Estate, Co Wicklow from June 28 to 30. kaleidoscopefestival.ie 100 ARCHIVE SCRATCH AND SQUIFF The 100 Design Archive project is a community-centred initiative which hopes to finally “join the dots” on the rich and diverse history and practices of Irish graphic design. It’s like a vault in which projects are inducted as honorary members reflecting the creativity and ingenuity of the year in question. The class of 2018 has just graduated and their efforts and achievements are on display. Perusing the submissions, the stand-out, in terms of emotional resonance and public impact, is Language’s ‘Together for Yes’ tied up with the Repeal referendum, but there are many more which reflect admirably on the state of our design nation. 100archive.com With a mission statement about ‘Liking Different’, Maktus is a design collective trying to do original Irish artwork that’s not the usual tourist fare too. Case in point is their recent ‘Traditional Pubs of Dublin Scratch Map’. Scratch and/or drink your way through 30 of the city’s most famed watering holes. Each foil scratch reveals a hand drawn illustration beneath. €20 from their George’s Street Arcade shop or maktus.com GHOSTFACE Occasional TD scribe Dean Van Nyugen examines the impact of Wu-Tang’s Ghostface Killah through a series of essays blending music criticism, cultural examination, and personal appreciation in Iron Age: The Art of Ghostface Killah. Fresh from their Gods of Rap tour, Wu-Tang are also subject of Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics And Men, a new four-part doc-series which aired in the US in May. Available from June 28 via headstuff.org/shops Mike Byrne Neil Dunne Sarah Long Eoin Francis McCormack Alan Meredith Matthew Mitchell Aoife Soden Grainne Watts Derek Wilson Painters and Makers 20 June - 18 July, 2019 2nd Floor, Powerscourt Townhouse, 59 South William Street, Dublin 2. 01 4721050 | 087 2549884 info@sofinearteditions.com www.sofinearteditions.com Images: Mike Byrne, Terracotta 2; Neil Dunne, Resonance; Aoife Soden, Ecliptic Vase blue grey.