Dublin Port Company – Culture and Heritage
Over the past three years, Boyle Design Group have been providing creative visual communication services to Dublin Port Company. A crucial element of this work has been to communicate the cultural and historical significance of the Port to local communities and the wider public for the Port Heritage and Communications department. From designing and hand-painting murals along the Great South Wall (thank you Andrew!) for Pride day, water safety campaigns and cultural events, to creating and producing a book on the history and engineering achievements of the Port, our work has been creatively challenging and highly rewarding.
Connections – the Port, the City, Arts and Education is a programme designed to connect communities of place with communities of interest and engage with the past, present and future of Dublin Port.
The Pumphouse was home of the steam engine which powered the gates of Graving Dock 1 and is a key part of the Heritage Zone at the centre of Dublin Port. It now functions as a site of study, research, production and public experience of Port/City themes, involving and powering a range of creative arts practices and disciplines. The Pumphouse is a distinct and unique context for connecting creative practitioners and the public to new understandings of Dublin Port.
Our work included the branding and signage at the location; a twelve month programme of events (a booklet which unfolds to a poster), launch materials and a series of information posters on the history of the Graving Docks, its design and capabilities and its use as a location in the movies Michael Collins and Reign of Fire.
A project for Port Heritage at Dublin Port was to design and produce a large format book on the development of the Harbour and Port of Dublin between the years 1828 and 1938, by Dr Ron Cox. The book explores the rich history of Dublin Port and the development of the Harbour and Port of Dublin between the years 1828 and 1938, as seen through the work of two inspiring and colourful characters, Binden Blood Stoney and John Purser Griffith. It features over 100 illustrations, diagrams and photographs from the Dublin Port Archives.
