The Michael O’Connor Poster Collection was donated to Limerick City Gallery of Art in 1989. It comprises approximately 2800 posters of international derivation. It is an eclectic collection of posters containing work from all around the world celebrating film posters, theatre posters and other event posters. The posters have been amassed over 20 years. It is part of LCAs permanent gallery collection, yet they are not on display.

With this problem in mind, we designed an app that displays the posters for easy viewing and accessible for all through a corporation called Planchest. The concept revolves around community, as our target market are creatives and students who have an interest in poster design, therefore collaboration is key for this app. We wanted to create an experience that was contemporary and modern for our target market to engage with the Michael O’Connor Collection. This project was completed in collaboration with Janine Leahy and Laura Redmond.