Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell CD Case

This was the second part of a college project where I had originally illustrated a CD booklet of the album of my choice. I chose Fever to Tell by Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Another tutor in a different class decides to link up with the booklet project and gave us a brief that instructed the class to create the packaging/casing for the booklet. I made a sleeve style cover for the album influenced by the art work I had already created. The CD itself slots into one side, the booklet into another.

I kept the design on the outer cover black and white to contrast with the vibrant colours of the booklet inside. I created the design for the cover using by cutting into black card and scanning the results in to be printed off. I then wrapped the print off around my card template for the case. The general shapes and forms were in keeping with the ones I had drawn for the booklet, so that the musical style as well as illustrative style was still reflected.

Animal Emotions – Activity Pack Cover

Apologies for the crappy images. For some reason, I never took any photos of it college with the proper set up so this is a quick bedroom floor job I’m afraid. Buy anyway, this is the outside cover of my childrens activity pack that contains all the activity sheets I designed inside. The sheets on the inside were printed on matte paper as this is easier for children to draw, write or colour on. The pack cover was printed on a thick high gloss so it was more sturdy and appropriate as a cover.

This is the reverse of the outside cover. It simply show the contents of the pack and a ‘barcode’ to show how it would look if it was an actual product.

The circular flap on the edge of the activity pack layout above and below show where the pack folds to hold the sheets themselves .I decided to add another layer to the activity aspect by having two puzzle type questions about the picture of the tiger on the inside cover below.

You can see these activity sheet inserts for the pack above by clicking here and here. They include a fortune teller making activity, colouring in, puzzles and facts.

Animal Emotions – Fortune Tellers

These are some images I took of my ‘fortune’ tellers from a college project called Animal Emotions. See more on the three separate pieces I created here, here and here.

Points of Thankfulness

This is just a random pattern I drew on my graphics tablet because I wanted to mess around with it. I was thinking of comic books while I was drawing it, maybe that has something to to with the colour palette. And the lightening bolt shapes. No idea why I called it the name I did but that’s what it’s saved as and I sure as hell ain’t changing it now! It must’ve made sense at the time.

Anyhoo, I’d love to get the pattern printed on fabric. I think it would suit a tote bag or something. Maybe a pair of Converse. That’d be awesome. Although I’d obviously have to recreate it to a higher quality. I think I did this in Paintbrush sure. Hence the pixelliness. Girly version below.

Costa Cruise Offer

This was a window poster I made for a Costa offer for Cruise Holidays. I started to develop a illustrated style when creating these posters as they were usually only in the window for a short amount of time and there wasn’t too many guidelines to follow. I would choose a different patterned background for each one, a graphic illustration that referenced the sea and I would try to house the information within a different style of boundary each time. If you have seen any of my previous Cruise Holidays posters you will see that there is a common thread.

I also designed a large web banner for the website homepage.

Hard Luck Ireland

So Ireland got kicked out of the Euros tonight. My interest in football wanes once more. This is why I need to take up gambling. Keeps the urgency there!

Splendid Cruising

First blog post – gahhh! Nothing like talking about your work for all to see to make you feel like a weirdo…

So this was a project I completed during my time at Tour America, a travel agency in Dublin. I created two posters and a web banner for their sister organisation Cruise Holidays advertising offers with MSC on the Splendida and Fantasia cruise ships. I tried to be more creative when designing for Cruise Holidays as there wasn’t usually as many restrictions. So here I have my nautically themed designs in a typically bright style.