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Finished vector portrait. This project was about building Illustrator pen skills, and testing out brushes and textures too. It was really satisfying to work on, seeing it build up slowly!

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Finished business identity for the fictional company ‘Noun Collective’, a contemporary literature festival. Shown is the logo in colour and grey scale, business cards, letter head, compliment slip, flags, wristbands, t-shirts and tote bags. These photos came out a bit pixilated but the files themselves are lovely and crisp! 

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These were the snaps from my first exhibition in LSAD. The brief was to design a garment for a particular kind of body. I wanted to create a garment that connected two bodies, and really pushed the definition of ‘garment’ to its extremes (I can’t sew so had to try something different..!). I got my sister and moms hands, young and old, and wanted feelings of both connection and resistance from a teen/mother relationship. They were shot with phone torches as lighting and pizza dough is the substance!

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Product shots of an extremely photogenic cactus. This project was about creating moods and atmospheres with an object just through lighting and composition, so no touching up was allowed. Most were done in studio and the others at home with my laptop screen as a back drop.

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Finished DVD sleeve for a short film, “The Plastic Bag”, directed by Ramin Bahrani. It’s a strange story of a plastic bag going through a philosophical crisis whilst journeying across the world in search of “The Vortex”. The pattern on the cover are wind patterns across the world, and used in the type too. I wanted the inside cover to feel beautiful, more flower-like than trashy. Themes of the movie that stood out for me were isolation, beauty and hope. 

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Finished typeface made of flower oasis and small flowers (Babys Breath)!

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This was a typography project on creating a hand made typeface. We’ve been learning about the Guttenberg press and I wanted to create something solid in relief, like the handmade iron letterforms that started the printing press. I chose a lowercase Caslon font and took inspiration from floral types I had seen online. I used flower oasis to cut out the type, and decorated it with some small flowers (I think Babys Breath). Took forever but oasis was a great material to work with.

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Two kinds of photos here working with long exposures to paint with light, and then shutter speeds to both freeze the subject and capture the moving motion. The hand is a panning shot, the hearts taken with Christmas lights and the camera handheld, and the one of bottles is just a slower exposure. These are raw files so unedited.

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This collection was based on a photography challenge woring with depth of field. Quick few shots trying to come to terms with a DSLR, taken on a Nikon D3400 but the mushrooms were on a slightly older model. 

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Obsessed with drawing lines and angles, mixing some Kandinsky mashed with maths classes… this is a freehand fineliner drawing and I’m hoping to work on this style both on paper and also build it up digitally to see where I get. For the moment I’m not introducing colour to keep it crisp and just focus on shape, but it's there for use in future projects too .

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This is the final book cover I designed. The three lighthouses represent the three different women in the story, which the story follows. I didn’t want it to look like a classic beach scene, because the book is quite sombre with dark undertones and I wanted to pick up on that in the dark sky. I love working with photography as a medium but I felt my photoshop skills improved hugely over this project.

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The book I was working on was set by the beach, filled with strong imagery taken from that landscape. I went to Strandhill beach, Co.Sligo, and did a shoot there using a small lighthouse shaped cookie cutter to create a crisp design. I tried different things, but ultimately a combination of images will work best for designing a front, back and spine of a book cover.

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Our final project of the year was to design book covers for classic books. We were all assigned different novels, and I got ‘The Blackwater Lightship’ by Colm Tóibín. These were some of the different designs I had been playing around with before finalising on my last book cover. I felt although attractive, they didn’t suit the tone of the book which was a more subtle, darker story than these appear.

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First typography photoshop. I got some real acorns and then photographed them before fixing them up online.

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Final redesign of an acorn. This one was made of rope, playing on the idea of a new strong material as opposed to the hard wooded shell of a real acorn. This was done in colour pencil and black fine liner.

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Some more illustrations of the inside of acorns, and more materials too.

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In creating final images of my word, I have started looking into materials usage, like paper machè and clay. I recreated a wood pattern on this clay acorn, and my drawings have led me to examining what could lie on the inside of an acorn. Soon I'll have my final designs which I will post!