POND Studios is a Visual, Media and Music studio based in Dublin led by Dervla Clarke + Jamie Lemoine. Dervla has over 20 years experience in creative research, strategy, and visual art and design. Jamie is an award winning musician with many years experience working in music, sound and photographic media.
POND Studios works with a wide variety of clients in Europe and the USA, has created a line of original graphic and photographic prints and is also an experimental music label. Dervla + Jamie lived and worked in San Francisco, New York and Berlin for many years and bring the diversity of these experiences to their creative output.
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DERVLA CLARKE
Dervla’s creative practice lies at the intersection between art, design, and technology. She recently completed a postgraduate diploma in Art & Ecology at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, with a focus on co-creation and transdisciplinarity.
She has been immersed in the branding and design field for many years with a bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication from NCAD and intensive professional training in emerging technologies and Design Thinking.
Dervla has worked with a wide variety of clients in creative and cultural organisations, the tech industry and artisanal food and beverage. She was a partner in design studio RockPaperPixel with co-founder Tod Wohlfarth for ten years in New York. She has worked as a creative consultant with clients in San Francisco and Berlin. Dervla was a Visiting Instructor at the highly respected Pratt Institute in Brooklyn for seven years, teaching in Pratt's Undergraduate Communications Design program.
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JAMIE LEMOINE
Jamie has worked with music and sound his entire career. In San Francisco, he ran a music production studio operating out of esteemed Bay Area recording studio Different Fur. An album he produced won best rap album at the California Music Awards. He has had a focus on electronic and hip-hop for his own creative music projects and has had Albums, EPs and individual tracks released on labels like Sony U.K, Warner Brothers and Stray Records (DogDay, Oakland CA). His music has been positively reviewed in well respected music publications. He recently founded an experimental music label in Dublin and his music and sound work has been included in exhibitions and contemporary music festivals in Berlin.
Jamie worked in the commercial photography industry for 10 years in New York as a senior photo retoucher. He has run several photo blogs of his street photography from New York, Berlin and Dublin. His photography has been exhibited in Ireland and the USA.