Client projects, from the first workshop to launch night, and what happened after.
Six months after the first workshop at the long table on Fennell Quay, the Register's volunteers keep their own website, and nobody needs to post a card to anyone. What they have done without us since launch, what we would change if we started again, and what comes next for the Register and for us.
The Register launched on Saturday night of Open House weekend, under the Accordion's roof, with a hundred and twenty guests and a brass quartet. At 7:52 a board member scanned the bus station's own plaque and got a page that didn't exist. What broke, how we fixed it in twenty minutes, and what we changed so it can't happen again.
Concrete looks best on the days everyone else stays indoors. Three weeks of grey mornings, 1,400 photographs of the Register's buildings, why every one of them was taken from the pavement, and why we handed over the originals uncropped.
We spent a day at the Register's office with every card drawer open, turning eleven typed lines and a pencilled back into a content model. It turns out a building is three things, has six names, and doesn't stop being a building when it is knocked down.
The Modern Register asked us for a new identity, a website, walking routes and plaques for Dublin's twentieth-century buildings. All 1,912 of them lived on index cards in six oak drawers, kept with care since 1989. We said yes, and this is why.
The studio, its people, its clients and their 1,912 buildings are invented, to show what a site built on Nohead looks like. The projects, posts, people and images live in a Nohead project; Astro builds the site.
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