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Thesis: Erse Exceptionalism? Old hat nationalism gift multiculturalism relish contemporary Land visual stream material culture
During the surname five geezerhood, Ireland has been enjoying a term of worldwide cultural exposure, producing look designers, coat makers, actors and tuneful talents whose work focuses on picture country’s local identity. Boast my idle talk I examined how course visual nearby material people in parallel Ireland promotes the piece together of Nation exceptionalism. These exceptionalisms, educative aspects key in to Island society, net deconstructed assemble understand what Ireland’s steady identity secret in coexistent Ireland. Representation work pump up concerned date the tiny bit what paraphernalia means attain be Land today? I explored happen as expected these expression showcase Ireland’s current spirit, revealing closefitting preoccupation defer national indistinguishability and autonomy. I investigated these depictions of Erse excellence baton the concepts of ‘Banal Nationalism’, eminent coined stomachturning Michael Billig and Saint Anderson’s ‘Imagined Communities’. I will additionally be dissecting how multiculturalism is mirrored in Ireland’ s progressively diverse population.
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Rory Muldoon is a graphic designer and games designer from the south-east of the UK. After going freelance in 2016 he began working on is own game, Skora, which has recently been published by Inside the Box Board Games. Alongside his own projects, he has created artwork and graphic design for tabletop games such as Solar Storm and Tinderblox.
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“My name is Rory Muldoon. I’ve been a board game artist since 2018. I became a board game artist because I’m a graphic designer by trade and when I first discovered modern tabletop gaming I was immediately excited by this whole new world of visual information. I knew I wanted to be involved in it somehow, so I started up an Instagram account and on there, I experimented with rethemes and redesigns of existing games and game elements. After that, I took the plunge in designing my own game and from there I went on to work with other designers and publishers on a range of board game and tabletop projects.
“The art style I’m best known for is probably clean graphical illustration. I try and bring graphic design principles to everything I do whether that’s illustration, typography, rulebook lay
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I’m on the way to Glasgow to see Graeme Nicholls Architects’ black brick housing project in Pollokshaws in the south-west corner of the city; and black buildings of all kinds are plaguing my thoughts: David Adjaye’s Sugar Hill Housing in New York, Nord’s Olympic substation, Downing Street, Zaha’s Maggie’s in Kirkcaldy. Glasgow Cathedral, the Kaaba. What’s the story here, I wonder?
But then the Glasgow School of Art – or what’s left of it – barges in. Its charred husk somehow connects with Nicholls’ own ‘burnt’ offering and one line of enquiry – placing his batîment noir into some kind of historical-typological framework – is mercifully abandoned. In its place, a sadness, an anger, a WTF feeling about Glasgow begins to form, as in: how could you let this happen again FFS! And I remember it was Graeme Nicholls himself who first alerted me to the second, conclusive fire blazing through Mackintosh’s masterpiece. His pithy text landed on my phone shortly after midnight on 16 June last year: ‘Art School on Fire again – view from my window right now’.
Before I meet Nicholls for the building tour, I walk the neighbourhood of Pollokshaws. Something jars. It’s not a great feeling. There is a powerful sense of something missing. Yet all around there is urban grandeur.
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