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Education SkillsB.A (Honours) Visual Communications
Limerick School of Art and Design, 2013
Illustrator
Indesign
Photoshop
Flash
After Effects
Dreamweaver
Basic HTML/CSS
I spent two years after graduation working at Firecrest Clinical,
a CRO in Limerick, as a member of their internal design team.
One of my biggest contriubtions in my time there was the
completion of a full suite of illustrations for a new web-based
product roll-out. It called for a simple style, using a limited
colour palette, so that new illustrations could be created to fit
tight deadlines. This suite is still being used and expanded upon
in Firecrest, using a style guide that I wrote.
Other projects during my time here included icon design, basic
UX layouts and extensive amounts of animation using Flash,
as one of two/three designers on a team also comprising of
pharmacologists and medical subject-matter-experts. In this
role I learned a lot about working on a team and meeting tight
deadlines.
Firecrest
For my final year project, which was displayed at the graduate
show in the Limerick School of Art and Design 2013, I chose the
game of chess as the subject matter for my project.
The project consisted of an eighteen page foldout book containing
information about the game and articles about times when chess
has collided with popular culture. The articles/information pages
were separated by illustrations of each of the six types of chess
pieces. In doing this booklet, I combined fairly minimal line based
illustrations, accompanied by the bodies of text that made up the
articles.
I also completed a series of four posters with illustrations of four
great chess masters from the past and the present, to accompany
the book. These were created in the same illustration style as in the
book.
This project was a lot of fun as I had total creative freedom, in both
choice of subject matter and design, because of this I feel like this
project represents me most accurately as a designer.
Graduate Project
Logo design and internal images for a nightclub in the heart of
Limerick City. Including various advertising media, signage and
various decals for the interior of the venue.
The owner of the club wanted a vibrant, energetic solution for the
branding, so I ran with the orchard motif; trees, leaves, wood, etc.
For the logo, I paired a modern, display sans-serif with a loose,
wavy underline, and added a leaf flourish, which was also used as
a monogram to represent the club.
This is a personal favourite project of mine, as what designer
doesn’t love having his work being displayed ot a popular
city-centre night club.
The Orchard
This client came to me prior to starting a concert promotion
company, based in Galway city, but that put on shows all over
Ireland. They were focused on alternative music (Heavy metal,
instrumental, post-rock, math-rock) and wanted an identity that
reflected this.
As well as branding Feast, I also designed a number of posters
for concerts/tours they have organised. The challenge for each
poster was to retain the style of Feast’s branding, while also
fitting in with the groups playing and their style of music.
This was a project I thoroughly enjoyed completing, as it
incorporated areas of design I particularly enjoy working in,
and I got to design for alternative music culture, which I am
passionate about.
Feast
This client, Paddy Frawley’s bar, a popular Limerick city pub,
came to me looking for an A6 cocktail menu. This was an
important project for them, as cocktails are a big part of the
pubs identity, and they are known in the city for the quality of
said cocktails.
Shown here are the menu that was chosen by the client (on the
left) and an unused second draft that I put together.
They wanted something that would fit in with the existing
branding and interior of the bar, but also asked me for
something that had a hint of an ‘Art-Deco’ style.
The biggest challenge for this piece was fitting all of the
information for each cocktail into each A6 sized page. I
achieved this by using Bodoni at 10pt, which even at such
a small size, is still easily readable, and fit in nicely with the
overall style of the menu.
Cocktail Menu
The brief for this project was to take four statistics pertaining to the
2012 Olympic in London and illustrate them in an infographic style,
to be put in a magazine alongside an article about the games.
For the infographics I opted for a clean-cut approach, with flat
colours to allow the information the be easily understandable for
the reader.
Olympics Infographics
I also enjoy to shoot pictures whenever I can, and am familiar with
most contemporary SLR cameras. Here is a small selection of my
personal favourites.
Photography
A selection of some logos I created for various small
businesses and ventures around Ireland.
Logo Design
ian.malone42@gmail.com
(085) - 1078271
Behance Portfolio
This has just been a small selection of my work. If you would like to view some more of my work please visit my:
Personal Website
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