Although it is from 1973 it feels very sixties. The second cover, Transportation in Dublin, was designed by Colm Ó Lochlainn’s son Dara’s design agency.
The rest of the catalogue utilises the beautiful Colmcille typeface, designed by Colm Ó Lochlainn with Karl Uhlemann at the Sign of the Three Candles. The font on the cover is Helvetica, still a fresh and modern face in 1970. Nevertheless, the exhibition was a success and directly led to the establishment of the Crafts Council of Ireland the following year. Despite Ireland’s impressive craft lineage (the cover image is a 3,500 year old gold lunula), Ida Grehan in The Irish Times was disparaging of the whole endeavour asking “will it be up to the high standard of Trinity College Library where Picasso, Lurçat and a succession of international artists have been exhibited?” (The Irish Times, May 27, 1970). The Ioldánas Irish Crafts Exhibition was organised by the Irish section of the World Crafts Council to coincide with the fourth general assembly of the World Crafts Council in Dublin, 1970. The first is a catalogue for an exhibition of Irish Crafts and the second is a report on transportation in Dublin.
Here are two booklet covers from the early Seventies. Transportation in Dublin, An Foras Forbartha (1973). Ioldánas: Irish Crafts Exhibition, Irish Section World Crafts Council (1970).
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