Graphic artist and lecturer. Interested in children's publishing, picturebooks and artists' books.
Cork / Limerick, Ireland
Joined August 2012
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Laura Little retweeted
The countdown to our 2024 Graduate Exhibitions has officially started! 🎉
Dept. Of Media Communications launching May 30th.
Dept. Of Fine Art & Applied Art launching May 31st.
Visit crawford.mtu.ie/graduates
📸🎨🖥️🖌️
Laura Little retweeted
Reminder: Our Portfolio Portal is closing this Friday 1st of March 2024📢
An Art & Design portfolio is required as part of the CAO application to the BA (Hons) in Contemporary Applied Art, Fine Art and Visual Communications.
For guidelines and more info:
crawford.mtu.ie/how-to-apply
Laura Little retweeted
Pick up a copy of the @ST__Ireland for an absolute bumper roundup of great books from 2023. Put together lovingly with the help of all our amazing bookseller friends 💚
Laura Little retweeted
You are warmly invited to join us for our MTU Crawford College of Art & Design Open Day events on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th November 2023, 10am – 2pm.
The Department of Fine Art and Applied Art Open Days will take place at the Sharman Crawford Street Campus on the mornings of 17th / 18th November.
The Department of Media Communications Open Day will take place at the MTU Bishopstown Campus (Visual Communications & Creative Digital Media) and the Envision Centre Campus, Sober Lane (Photography with New Media) on Friday 17th November 2023.
Full schedules at: mtu.ie/opendays
We look forward to seeing you all there!
Laura Little retweeted
Famous faces available from the Monotype Corporation Ltd. all displayed on one small leaflet!
#typeface #type #typography #typedesign #printing #letterpress #printhistory #designhistory #graphicdesign #designinspiration
Laura Little retweeted
“10 Chaises” by Dominique Erhard is a small pop-up book originally made for kids highlighting 10 iconic #chairs from the past century. Originally released in 2016 and re-published in 2022.
Laura Little retweeted
Directed by writer and artist @inwetweather and poet, artist and editor @thecoracler, Coracle is a printer-publisher and editor of spaces based in Tipperary. A new title, 'A Table of Books in Ballybeg', launches at #smallpublishersfair23, Conway Hall, London, 27/28 October
Laura Little retweeted
Well done to all the @MTU_ie graduates shortlisted for the @IDIIreland Graduate Awards 2023.
A special mention to our own @MTU_Crawford Media Communications graduates: Muireann Hayes, Patrick Harty and Daria Jackiewicz! 👏🏻
#designireland #idiawards – at Cork, Ireland
Laura Little retweeted
Small Publishers Fair returns to London's @ConwayHall next month, with 68 UK & international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks.
Fri 27 & Sat 28 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
smallpublishersfair.co.uk
Laura Little retweeted
Book token by master lithographer Barnett Freedman, 1943, from @UniRdgTypoColls. The only early book token design to be offered in different colours. Find out more about lithography and book ephemera @cbcp_UniRdg summer school, 20 & 21 June. For more info: tinyurl.com/2et87ptc
Laura Little retweeted
Michael Twyman talks about "Puffin picture books for children: the early years of artist-drawn chromolithography" and delights us with examples of most early Puffin picture books, with a focus on those produced during World War 2.
@cbcp_UniRdg Stunning images, hard to select some
Thoroughly enjoyable 2 days @cbcp_UniRdg Summer School: Lithography, Puffin Picture Books, and book ephemera!
Really enjoyed visiting this exhib yesterday!
We've extended our Decorated Papers exhibition until 15 July 🙌
An extra 3 weeks of glorious pattern and colour!
sbf.org.uk/whats-on/view/exh…
#Exhibition #BookHistory #PrintHistory #WhatsOnLondon #LondonExhibitions
Laura Little retweeted
Please note that the last day to book for the 'Researching Penguin' conference at #Bristol & online is 9 May. Please retweet! @SHARPorg @PenguinCollSoc @samartha @CathyMcAteer1 @loweryhannah1 @Muireann @MedievalDigigal @kreeve @PinkParrot1 @PenguinUKBooks @BibSoc Image: DM1964/14
![Colour poster designed by William Grimmond for Penguin Books, n.d. [c. 1947]. A summer promotion showing a Penguin, Pelican and Puffin with their luggage ready to go on holiday, and the text: 'Wherever you go - take a Penguin Book. Penguins, taken on the train Elevate and entertain Pelicans, as you'd expect Suit the adult intellect Puffins, on the other hand For the growing mind are planned' (DM1964/14).](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fs8kw76WYAIUG58.jpg?name=orig)
ALT Colour poster designed by William Grimmond for Penguin Books, n.d. [c. 1947]. A summer promotion showing a Penguin, Pelican and Puffin with their luggage ready to go on holiday, and the text: 'Wherever you go - take a Penguin Book. Penguins, taken on the train Elevate and entertain Pelicans, as you'd expect Suit the adult intellect Puffins, on the other hand For the growing mind are planned' (DM1964/14).
In case you missed it & want to find out more about us, you can now go to our *webpage*! Check us out here: bristol.ac.uk/library/specia… And while there are still places, you might like to bag a place at our inaugural May conference too! shop.bris.ac.uk/conferences-…
Laura Little retweeted
We promise that our librarians don’t have gigantic hands. These books are 57mm high and 47mm wide – about the same length as a mouse’s tail. 🧵👇
📜Shelfmark C.194.a.945
ALT A librarian holds a tiny, open book in the palm of their hand. The left-hand page is printed with a coloured illustration of two children bowling hoops. The right-hand page contains the caption.
Laura Little retweeted
Booksellers and publishers converging on Cork to share ideas @BooksellingI @PublishingIRL
echolive.ie/corknews/arid-41…
