In 2018 I signed myself up for one of those logo challenges to try to improve my ideation skills and develop some logos for my portfolio. Since then I have been full steam designing logos for fun.

I’ve really enjoyed developing logos for a huge range of different topics. I make a rule that I can’t spend more than a 2-3 hours on any piece and it really forces you to make quick decisions, focus your attention on broad details and blast through your initial research/ideation.

For individual write ups on my logos you can check out my dribbble

Tiny Terrors was a charity zine I created and design for Halloween 2022.

I collaborated with 10 creatives to make a short zine of horror stories, comics, and illustrations that we launched online for free.

As October is mental health month in Ireland we asked that anyone who downloaded the zine consider donating to Mental Health Ireland, Aware, or the Samaritans.

I hosted the zine at this site and we did a small launch on social media that saw over 100 downloads of Tiny Terrors.

Note: Highway to Hell comic featured here by Daniel Preto

A friend had a new issue of their excellent poetry magazine coming out last year so I volunteered to design the booklet and update their logo.

My first step was to slightly update their logo so it was a little more expressive of the style of magazine and easier to use in various formats (social media, print and web banners).

The issue was set for a halloween launch and was titled “Ghouls”. For the cover I wanted to use a grid of dead leaves (zombie leaves 👻) to enforce the autumn and halloween feel without being too overt. The grid was to represent a hive of bee’s. Internally I kept the layout very simple and classic, I used Garamond as the key font and then found a free use script font for the headings to give each poem a hand signed feel. Finally the palette for this issue was pulled from an autumnal image I found online.

I also did a couple of badge designs for the launch of the issue grabbing some of the imagery I generated and putting them with some text.

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This was an animation I did for Eflow’s new Tag payment system. My role was as animator and video editor on this piece.

The video itself is a “how to” showing users how the new tag system works. It’s a neat little transmitter that attaches to your windshield and automatically pays for your toll while going through the various toll roads around the island, saving drivers a lot of time in the long run.

I received all the assets as illustrator files which I cut up and layered out to work in the various scenes. Some required resizing, colouring and fixing for rough edges which took some time at the start, but was worth doing in the long run. After that I took all the assets into After Effects for animation and edited/sound mixed the piece using Premiere Pro.

I’m really happy with how it turned out in the end, the pieces has a nice flow to it and doesn’t drag anywhere and it was great to work with high quality assets on an animation like this.

This is a logo I was fortunate to do for a small Reiki business based in the US.

Reiki is a healing technique based on the principle that the therapist can channel energy into the patient by means of touch, to activate the natural healing processes of the patient's body and restore physical and emotional well-being.

With this in mind, the client wanted to create a logo that both evoked the spiritual nature of her practice and her Irish roots. We went through a number of concepts for the design before landing on the swirl logo.

The two lines of the gold central swirl symbolize the practitioner and the client’s energies intermingling without touching. I gave this a sharper look to link it to similar Celtic swirls and then paired it with a simple sans serif font (Brandon Grotesque) to make the logo feel clean and keep the focus of the piece on the logomark.

Following this I provided my client with a lookbook for her finished logo that included guidelines for font usage, letterheads, business cards, and merchandise uses for her new logo.

This was a great project to work on and I’m really happy with the end result!

During the 2020/2021 lockdowns I took on a personal project where I redesign as many logos as I can.

The logos I worked on were a mix of professional logos and designs I found online that I thought had a really neat idea or cool concept. It was fantastic practice to put my own spin on some extremely iconic designs.

On some of the designs I also explored how I would repurpose the design into a social media icon.

None of these designs were commissioned, these were done purely for my own practice/interest. If you see one of your designs on this list and would like me to remove it please get in contact.

As a personal project I’ve taken up photo repair and colouring.

My grandfather was an avid amateur photographer and spent years taking pictures around Kerry and of our family. I recently found a box of his old photography and thought it would be great to repair the old photographs digitally, and colourise them.

I’m currently doing a mixture of old photographs that I’ve sourced from google and some of my family, I’m hoping over time to build up a 30-40 photo catalogue of family photos.

A design case study I did for the excellent Arkham Horror deck building database. I wanted to see if I could redesign the site to work in an app format.

#workinprogress