PUBLISHING.
I have always wanted to be a published author, mainly so I would always have an excuse to sit at a table in a street café in Paris and watch the world go by. But unfortunately, the closest I have gotten is designing book covers.
Before moving to Australia, I had the opportunity to work with a small boutique design agency in Dublin called Create, with the brilliant and passionate Owen and Linda. I had the chance to design the covers for several publications for the prestigious Gill & Macmillan publishing house. Here are a selection of those.
GILL & Macmillan.
While working with Create, I also got the chance to work on a wide variety of niche printed publications.
One of the highlights was this: Discovering Historic Fingal, a guide to the historic amenities of the Fingal area. Sadly, it remains one of the few times the client paid particular attention to paper stock and bespoke print specifications, creating a beautiful and tactile piece that was as lovely to hold as it was to read.
The Irish echO
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).
It was a great way of keeping in touch with ‘the home country” as I settled into life here in Oz.