Potion

28/05/2021

Back in February 2020 the TG4 design department were just beginning to get our teeth stuck into a TG4 rebrand in conjunction with Red Bee Media when a virus swept its way across the world and separated us off into our separate bubbles. In our separate bubbles some of us were working in kitchens, some of us in bedrooms, some of us babysitting numerous children while sweating it over a redesign.

Our hard work got recognised yesterday in television’s most prestigious promo and design awards (up against all of the titans with their million euro budgets) with a first place Promax Europe 2021 gold award. Delirah!!

29/04/2021

16/04/2021

Touch screen generative graphics console from 1968!!!

John Whitney, Sr. (April 8, 1917 – September 22, 1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of compute...

03/03/2021

The fascinating origin of television motion design, the analogue Scanimatte.

Engineer Dave Sieg has spent the last 20 years preserving the only working Scanimate, an analog motion graphics machine that was the staple of film/tv animat...

30/12/2020

That’s mostly accurate

Mitch Goldstein, an Assistant Professor Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology, has channeled the uncertainty and insecurity that comes with being a graphic design student into a series of amusing venn diagram charts. And even if you're a professional designer, chances are you'll find these...

01/10/2020

Did you ever wonder how they recoloured those old black and white films?

“Elisabeth Thuillier was a French colorist who excelled at coloring facets of magic lanterns and other kinds of photographic work. Elisabeth and her workforce of 200 employees – all women – were often hired by French filmmaker George Melies to color his films. Some classics include A Trip to the Moon and The Kingdom of Fairies.

They began coloring film around 1897 in a coloring lab in Paris. The colorization method was initially hand done by individuals. Yes, the employees literally painted every object in every frame one color at a time. They formed an assembly line in which each colorist was assigned a single tone, filling particular parts of each frame before passing the film to the next employee. Some areas were so minute that the employees resorted to brushes with a single hair!”

The colorization method was initially hand done by individuals. Yes, the employees literally painted every object in every frame color by color.

30/11/2019

This is a phenomenal BBC documentary on the history and legacy of the Bauhaus on the 100th anniversary of its foundation, with some startling and worrying parallels to the modern world and our political situation.

In 1919 an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauhaus. A century later, its radical thinking still shapes ou...

28/11/2019

It was an honour and a pleasure to work on the multimedia effects for Fíbín’s ‘Mac an Bheatha’ (Macbeth), it has being hailed as the most creative retelling of Macbeth produced in Ireland. It’s now showing in the Printworks in Galway until Saturday (only €12 per ticket).

28/11/2019

Metal fans take a shot at redesigning the Walmart logo😆

The Walmart re-design competition. Just for fun. Vote for your favourites with a like!

23/10/2019

Simply priceless advice for anyone considering getting involved in direction

This ultimate guide breaks down every imaginable shot size, angle, movement and more.

19/09/2019

The Fíbín play ‘House Party’ in Baile na hAbhann tomorrow will be brilliant if it’s anything like the last one, they made it in to the top 10 events in Ireland tomorrow night’s Culture Night (with some trippy visuals by Potion).

Friday, September 20th brings Culture Night to every corner of the country, with free cultural happenings of every imaginable variety for all ages - and it's all free!

07/09/2019

Potion provided some of the video effects for Fíbín’s phenomenal production of ‘Cath na Cathrún Rua’