Spin: who we are and how we work
Presented by Patricia Finegan, Managing Director and Ian Macfarlane, Senior Designer

ICAD is delighted to welcome Spin to Dublin. This renowned and respected London based design studio will share their work, practise and insight with an ICAD audience on May 10th.

Spin has received national and international recognition winning awards in print, Television and Cinema Graphics, New Media, Poster Design and Typography. These include two Silver Pencils and a Silver Nomination from D&AD, a New York Art Directors Club Distinctive Merit Award, two Silvers, a Design Distinction and inclusion in the I.D. Forty from International Design magazine, New York.

Recent projects include the brand identities of DMOD, Channel 5, More 4, ICA and DMAX (for Discovery Networks Europe).

"We are exicited by challenging thinking, imagery and typography. For us graphic design is about content, functionaity, expression and the physical nature of the medium we are working in.

A fundamental part of our approach is collaboration, with our clients and with photographers, illustrators, programmers, typographers and animators. All we are ultimately interested in is the quality of the end result. Successful graphic design must have orginality, revelance, clarity and an element of risk."