The Underscore Orkestra tour 2016

I recently finalised the new poster for the TUO tour for this summer. I'm including three of my beautiful bellydance friends, Briona, Kateo and Jane from Suadela, as well as the musicians (of course!) Jorge Kachmari, Linda Joy, Thomas Hodson and Brian Leach. Tours with this band are always so much fun so i'm aiming to capture that in this poster. I'm also looking at old vaudeville style posters for inspiration, as their sound reminds me of this. Woo!

Contrast 2014

Aileen Keenaghan

Cliodhna O'Connor

Hugh Heffernan

Kate Delaney

The Visual Communications degree show opened on the 29th of May. Unfortunately I didn't make the night itself but called in to see the work later in the week. As always I was really impressed with the standard. I'm getting really frustrated with my camera phone as the quality is so terrible!! New camera on the horizon...

Anni Albers - Original Op Artist?

I'm doing some research for a vj animation i'm currently working on for Slow Motion Heroes. It's for the upcoming "Wall of Sound" gig on the 28th of December. I'm doing a short projection animation of about 4 minutes, each minute reflecting one of their 4 eps, at the moment i'm working on the (soon to be released) "one liners" ep. My idea was to make something based on op-art, initially I had the work of Sol LeWitt in mind, the textile designs of Anni Albers (which I LOVE!) also sprang to mind as being very similar. I just wanted to share some of the images i've found here. If you're interested, Gunta Stolzl (her peer) also has some amazing textile designs, very inspirational stuff!

Not Pop

A while back I previewed EP artwork for Cork band Slow Motion Heroes' upcoming new EP, Not Pop. The lads released the artwork on Facebook this week so now I can show the full thing here! Not Pop is the follow on EP from Pop, the idea was to create two very contrasting EPs in terms of musical style, I was contracted to do art work for both so I tried to reflect this in what I produced. Looking forward to the Not Pop release on Oct 8th in Bradleys on Barrack St and seeing the work in print!

You can download the EP from here, strongly recommended, it's fantastic!

Pop

Seeing as this is going to print this week (or maybe next) I guess it's fine to put this up here! The finished cover for the Pop EP from Slow Motion Heroes.

I ended up paring back the original drawing in photoshop and just using one element of it in the final thing, can't wait to see it in print!

Not Pop - Preview

Part two of two images (pop here), just a preview! The work should be totally finished and printed by the end of April, wohoo!

POP...

Yesterday was a total write-off due to a college reunion Friday night, but got a good bit of work done today, here's a sneak preview! LOVE this project, can't wait to have the work finished and printed.

[r]evolution of a sun album cover mock-up

So I had some time on my hands and put together this for the upcoming [r]ev album, they're getting Con Cremin (amazing artist!) to do the actual cover, so really this was just an exercise for myself, the design for it was hanging around in my head for a while, so I said i'd get it out!

The lines represent solar / heat flares, they were created using the blend tool in Illustrator, very handy! Tutorial here, with really annoying ads that they make you sit through (grrr... I actually hate video tutorials, give me text anyday). The "Hell" text is hand drawn, based on patches the band used to have (recreated patch image below), and the "revolution of a sun" text is a free font ("existence") found on dafont.com,



Can't wait to see the actual album cover! Con's stuff is unreal.

Image for HIN album cover

Done in pastels & photoshop (face in photoshop with a wacom, pastels in pastels!) I'm hoping it reflects the energy and intensity of the songs on the album, as well as the lovely layered melodies & textures they've got going on.