Maths Book Illustrations

I recently finished work illustrating a maths book for educate.ie. It's my first time illustrating a book and i'm really looking forward to seeing the finished product in print!

The book is for first year maths students. I've featured a few of the illustrations here.

Wild.ie pt2 is live!

Wohoo! The brand spanking new www.wild.ie site just went live! It's the second incarnation of the site i've developed, you can check out the first one here from way back in 2008!  It was definitely time for an update!

I'm really happy with the new site, I think it really showcases Jill's work through the use of the large background images, the "spotlight" image on each page and the gallery.  I'm also really excited to see what Jill does with the site, she's already a whizz with her Facebook and has just joined Twitter so i'm sure she's going to post all sorts of interesting stuff!

Forbidden Fruit 2012

I'm working away on the graphics for Forbidden Fruit 2012. It was one of my favourite jobs last year and is again this year! There's loads of scope for creativity in it. At POD's request I developed a set of ads similar to last years style and a set of ads in a new style, but keeping the same psychedelic element.

POD just contacted me to let me know that the above ad has been nominated for the NNI Press Ad of the Month for March! Fingers crossed!

And here's the other ad currently running....

Paper Over Cracks - Tour Poster

Slow Motion Heroes are going on tour around Ireland and the UK to promote their new single, Paper Over Cracks coming out on Fifa records on the 16th of March. The guys asked me to put a poster together that can be easily modified for the different gigs on the tour. I designed this poser based on the single cover, quite minimalist and quite, compared to how loud the band can be!

Boogie Night!

Colaiste Stiofain Naofa have a big showcase night coming up in The Pav. I designed the poster for them based on the theme "Boogie Night". Dress up, boogie down!

Paper Over Cracks

I recently completed the artwork for Slow Motion Heroes' new single Paper Over Cracks. It's a great tune so fingers crossed it goes really well for them! I worked with a theme the lads are developing for the single video, based on a paper bird. I forgot to credit myself on the back though! Major DOH moment for me!

Slow Motion Heroes vs Wall Of Sound

It's been a very busy few months, only getting time to blog stuff now! I finished up college for 2011 at the beginning of December and spent the next couple of weeks developing animations for projection at the Slow Motion Heroes Wall of Sound gig. The three animations looped on a projected background through out the gig. The animations were based on the artwork for three of the EPs. It was my first time doing anything like this, if I was doing it again i'd definitely make a few changes but over all I was pretty happy with the result.

I uploaded just a minute of each animation to Vimeo (see below). On the night the animations were longer with lyrics from the songs overlaid on top. Definitely enjoyable and something i'd like to do again! Unfortunately I took no photos *kicking myself* but I have this pic of the lads soundchecking before the gig with "One Liners" in the background.

Le Chat Noir Vintage Fair!

I'm just back from Le Chat Noir's second vintage fair, i'm on such a happy buzz after it! It was a lovely day, I paired up with my friend Sarah to run a stall with prints, badges, screenprinted tees, some hand-drawn shirts, vintage clothes & jewellery. Jill (from Wild Floral Couture) and Leona did a great job organising it.

There were some fab stalls from Turquoise Flamingo, Wild, Mercury goes Retrograde, Rosa Through the Looking Glass, Alice Halliday, Peacock and Ruby, Miss Daisy Blue.... the list runs on! I'm focusing on the Cork stalls here, there were loads of great stalls. It's also really inspiring seeing so many women starting their own businesses, in these times of "no jobs here" they're really making opportunities for themselves. I wonder as well is the massive interest in vintage at the moment anyway related to the global economic collapse? Maybe people are looking for ways to consume less and live more sustainably via recycling. Plus I guess vintage is just gorgeous!

So you can possibly tell i'm in a bit of a gushy mood after what was a really fab day! Here are a few photos from the first Vintage Fair in May and Le Chat Noir photo shoots, can't wait for the next event!!

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!

Forbidden Fruit!

I was at Forbidden Fruit this weekend in Dublin, it was a brilliant way to spend the June bank holiday weekend! I've been working with POD for the last number of months to produce promotional design work for the festival (see top poster). I also designed merch for the festival, i've featured the tees here, I designed a hoodie and art print as well.

This was a really enjoyable job, projects where I can indulge in loads of colour and handdrawn text are my favourite! For more info on the project, check my website here.

New site - Thinksmart Technologies

New client site recently live! This went live just before I left for India, I got a lot of work done that month!

The site was developed for Thinksmart Technologies to replace their existing site. Thinksmart are a Cork software start-up company doing incredibly advanced work in their field. The challenge was to take the wealth of existing, highly complex information and present it in a more digestible way to the lay person.

Check it out here.

Biodiversity Challenge!

So things have been very quite from me on the blogging front the last few weeks, that's because i've been in India! It's been great, hopefully i'll get around to updating my flickr this weekend with photos.

Before I left I was tearing busy with a lot of contract work, here's the Biodiversity Challenge floor game I finished for Global Action Plan just before I took off. I loved this job! It was so much fun. It's being printed 3mx3m, so pretty huge! It'll be used to teach kids about Biodiversity in a fun / informal way. The different squares represent threats and aids to biodiversity.

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!

Biodiversity Challenge...

Completely up the walls this weekend, i'm working on a floor game for kids, here's a snippet of what i'm doing.

I got my wacom cintiq last week as well! Sooo deadly, definitely speeding up the work process as well, I need it at the moment!

The Wedding Studio

Just finished a new site, wohoo! Love finishing projects. The site is here and you can read about some of the process here. *high five*

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.

String Theory

Last Thursday and Friday I was in Dublin giving a workshop in the Digital Hub. It was my main assignment for an course i'm doing at Mayfield Community Arts. It was a first for me and a really interesting / challenging day. The workshop was centered on developing narratives & characters based on the concept of social inclusion and I delivered it with three other girls doing the course.

As a result i'm a bit behind on work and have been drawing all weekend, here's a preview from yesterdays session, mmmmm.... lovely sharpies....

Cork Accommodation Site

I feel like i've been neglecting this blog the last few weeks, i've been tearing busy though, loads going on! Projects ending / beginning, trip to Rotterdam etc

One project that ended was the Cork Accommodation site. It's finally live, wohoo! Felt good to get it out, read more of the background here on my website.

I've a few illustration jobs on the horizon at the moment, more about them when they get sorted....

Hair Illo, The Cork News

Check it out! I'm delighted, The Cork News (purveyors of fine local news and lifestyle) have published my hair illustration from a while back. Pick up the issue around town over the next week, loads of great stuff in there.