Bad Dog Blog

This is where we get to rant, rave, be inspired, (or maybe even inspire), and share whatever might be on our minds at any given moment - even if its nothing at all! Inspiring websites, design/art that grabs our attention, music that we are currently listening too, videos we are watchig... you get the drift.

Pictures On Walls

12 August 2010

Dran One of our favourite sites for a long, long time. Have a look at Pictures On Walls and be impressed. This image is by French artist Dran. Based in Toulouse, Dran is a multi-talented artist who uses a variety of media such as installations, paintings and drawings to convey his ironic viewpoint. After developing his skills as part of Toulouse's renowned graffiti scene. He is also a fan of the absurd and has published a number of books featuring his funny sketches parodying everyday events with great doses of surrealism.

Falcon Holidays Flash Campaign

09 August 2010

We're quite proud of our latest batch of Flash ads for national tour operators, Falcon Holidays.

Music We Like (and wrote!)

27 July 2010

A remix of one of the tracks I'm working on right now. Inspired by Upular on YouTube - have a look and a listen below.

Awake All Chopped Up by Commander

Guinness West End Brochure

27 July 2010

We have just completed the Guinness West End brochure right on time for the Galway Races. A quick guide to whats on in Galway's West End during the festival. Based on the monthly brochure we do for Róisín Dubh it was down to the wire with the deadline - but we made it!

Bad Dog Design Encounters Faceless Monsters

29 June 2010

Faceless-Monsters---clown We recently helped our friends at The Atlantis Collective with their latest collection of short stories - Faceless Monsters. Its a great read and we were happy to be of assistance.

This is an excerpt from A Monkey is for Life by Dara Ó Foghlú

‘Jesus wept!’ he screamed, and dropped the leash.
The front door was closed, so Panther ran up the chimney, where no one could get to him.
Coley tried to lure him with a banana, then tried it with whiskey, then with both. He stayed there all afternoon wafting a Chiquita Junior and a double Jameson in the hearth, hoping that Panther would come back down.
‘He’ll have to sometime,’ Bruno said, ‘there’s a wire mesh in the chimney pot to stop the crows building nests, so he can’t escape out the top.’
Word spread throughout the village, and soon people were coming in off the street to watch. Coley turned from the fireplace to see a gallery of faces. Beady-eyed Sergeant Curley was there. Father Gantley too, with his camera. Of course, all the gossip-mongers from Moran’s shop had made it their business to get front row seats. A line of them sat there staring, each of them clutching varying shades of brown leatherette hands bags and a hot port.
‘I suppose this is a grand bit of entertainment for ye?’ Coley said. ‘Have ye come to see my friend get killed?’
After lunchtime had passed with no sign of breaching the stand-off, Bruno suggested they smoke him out.
‘He’ll just get a little dizzy and fall right down.’
‘On to a fire,’ Coley noted.

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