eLearning and visual communications consultant. Home of Diarmaid Collins, provider of freelance graphic design services.
I have produced stuff. Lots and lots of stuff. I have had responsibility for producing work for many top brand businesses and accounts, such as NSW Health, Renovating For Profit, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Royal Bank of Scotland, Coca-Cola, Masterfoods, Kellogg's, GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, Reckitt Benkiser and Vodafone.
Over the years I have had the opportunity to work on many different multimedia applications and projects, from creating animations for online adverts, editing movie clips for client show reels, writing and developing music through to creating site-specific kiosk-based multimedia pieces.
As a result, I have had extensive experience in producing on-brief brand-guideline specific documents, corporate reports, in-house communications, promotional work, packaging artwork, retail and trade-show installations, point-of-sale display units/areas and promotional branding campaigns.
While working with a boutique agency in Ireland, called Create, with the brilliant and passionate Owen and Linda, I had the opportunity to work on a wide variety of printed publications. One of the highlights was this: Discovering Historic Fingal, a guide to the historic amenities of the Fingal area. Sadly, it still remains as one of the few times the client paid particular attention to the paper stock and print specifications, creating a beautiful and tactile piece that was as lovely to hold as it was to read.
Whilst with Create I had the opportunity to produce the covers for a number of publications for the prestigious Gill & Macmillan publishing house. This is a selection of those.
I have had the pleasure of working under the stewardship of the inimitable Billy Cantwell for the Irish Echo for a number of years, laying out the fortnightly newspaper and generating adverts, promotional pieces and indispensable Annual publications (such as the Good Pub Guide).
An example of the single-page promotional website designed and built by me for the launch of the CloudSuite range of software products.