Only for Twitter’s reminder feature that tells users when they opened their account, I wouldn’t actually remember it. But mid-October marks the anniversary of when DublinByPub became a thing, a whole nine years ago now. Sometimes I don’t really give a shite about it, and sometimes I do and go out of my way to mark it.
This year I’m in the latter camp. Well, sort of. I had been looking at moving the website to see if I can speed it and to give it a visual refresh and it just so happened that my decision to finally get the finger out and start that process coincided with our birthday.
So this post is mainly to unveil the ‘new look’ of the blog and website, including some new branding (for want of a better word) which was designed, taking inspiration from some of the typefaces seen on the facades of pubs throughout the city. I should point out, as it sometimes is neccessary to do in these modern times, that AI wasn’t used in the creation of these new designs. (unless the graphic designers did, ha)
Alongside that, I’ve also recently set up an Etsy Shop in an effort to offload the prints of photographs that I’ve taken, which I really need to get cleared out of the gaff.
They’re all hand-mounted and hand-stamped by yours truly here on the Northside of Dublin. The Darkroom Prints are home-developed and printed in my darkroom (a room in my gaff I have to seal the bejaysis out of to stop any stray light getting in).
And, for now, the actual printing for the colour ones is done by a third party, but if these bring about a reasonable demand, I might invest in a decent printer myself and start printing at home.
So take a look over on our Etsy Store, if you’re interested. Link Below:
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