Snow Sculpture of Pembroke

As the big freeze continued in Dublin late last week 2 Rothconians found inspiration in the snow. Fionan & Ciara made a snowman* version (above) of the Rothco mascot ‘Pembroke’.

Well done guys!

*(No 3D modeling software was used in the creation of this snow sculpture!)

We’re absolutely thrilled to be hosting the brand new 24 the web event this week-end as part of Design Week.

For those who haven’t heard of the initiative, I’ll let @irishstu, the organiser, do the talking:
‘24 The Web is a 24 hour web design challenge, where teams of people build websites for a charity in 24 hours. The purpose is to highlight the importance of design, standards, content and process in developing a site, in a fun and challenging way. The event will take place from 13th-14th November. Inspired by Full Code Press (seriously, just see what they did. It’s fantastic and manic and fun and special and how we’ll do it) and NCAD 24 Hour Design Challenge’

For more information, check out the official website.
Follow twitter updates on #24theweb and @rothco, in particular from noon this Saturday Nov 13th to noon on Sunday.

We’d like to thank Selet Hire, also sponsors, for providing the much needed furniture to turn Space into a web design factory for the week-end.

Good luck to all participants for this coffee-fueled 24 hour web-design marathon!
See you Saturday!

Rothmo.com goes live!

15 mighty men of Rothco have promised to grow their miraculous mustachios for Movember to raise money & awareness for men’s health – specifically prostate cancer research.

Visit http://www.Rothmo.com each day to see the Rothconian men’s miraculous mustachios grow!

Help us raise over our target of €2,000 this year by visiting the site, liking on Facebook, sharing in your Facebook status, Tweeting, Blogging, emailing it to your nearest & dearest & telling everyone online & offline!!

Thanks in advance for your help & support!

Lots of the Rothco team attended the second OFFSET creative conference held in the Grand Canal Theatre here in Dublin at the weekend. Here are some of our highlights from what was overall an inspiring, positive, and superbly hosted event – a great moment for the Irish creative industry and a credit to the organisers Bren B, Richard and Peter.

James (Creative):
“Hearing a design super hero like David Carson speak about his process & work. Then getting the chance to meet him & have a casual chat about creativity & the creative process. Here’s a guy we all studied in design college showing his process (warts & all) & walking us through his creative ideas. Priceless.”

Stephen (Art Director):
“Brilliantly run event. World renowned speakers paired with a stunning venue and a great crowd made it an unforgettable atmosphere. Truly inspiring. Gives someone who is in the creative business validation that what they are doing can make a difference, no matter how small.
Only quibble would be – not enough Irish creatives.”

Cherie (Producer):
“The venue was immense! (Except for the 3 euro small bottles of water!)

Alan Clarke – Illustrator was brilliant and really entertaining. He held the attention of the audience so well – may have been something to do with the smoke machine he had He’s nuts, in a great way and his illustrations are strangely beautiful…The Darklight Lunch session on Sunday was perfect. A really nice way to sit and enjoy your lunch and take a little break for the brain…”

Alexis (Digital Creative Director):
“I found Poke’s work showed really well how a very simple idea and mechanic work very well in digital. But I was disappointed that a man of George Lois’ stature neglected to answer a question about Art Directors in digital.”

Rachel (Copywriter)
“I saw Gary Baseman on Friday who I thought was great fun, he just goes anywhere with his creativity. I loved how he has all this video of him taking his ‘Toby’ character all over the world and as yet has no idea what he’s going to do with it.

Poke were also good, brilliant innovations in the use of Twitter, YouTube – you really get the sense they’re striving to come up with completely new ways of doing things rather than just good campaign ideas.”

My own best bits included the quirky ‘circular’ presentation by graphic designer turned artist Daniel Eatock on Friday (will definitely be checking out his show at Monster Truck until the 23rd October) and of course legendary ad-man George Lois who entertained a packed house both for his talk on Saturday and Q&A discussion on Sunday. I also thought that Aiden Grenelle from Image Now and photographer Linda Brownlee’s lectures gave great representations of our own Irish creatives.

Bring on Offset 2011!

We are helping happy couples win €15,000 worth of technology & gadgets from Currys & PC World as part of our latest promotional idea for client DSGi.

To celebrate the moving in together of the new PC World & Currys ‘2 in 1’ store at Blanchardstown, there’s going to be a wedding ceremony in the new store, where there will be €15,000 worth of Currys & PC World products given as a wedding present to the happy couple.

Are you that very couple? Are you ready for an Electric Wedding?
Enter through TheElectricWedding.com by midnight on the 4th October, and you could be walking down the aisle together on the 8th October with €15,000 worth of electrical goodies.

See the video below: