Some of my First year work!

These are some screen shots from my 5 second animation that i created using Flash. I created all the elements of the animation in Adobe Illustrator and then edited them in Flash. The idea behind the animation is that the character is standing with his baloon when a gush of wind comes and sweeps him [...]

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Welcome Sign for Church

This is a set of welcome signs for my Church. The first one is to be printed 6ft by 15ft and the one below is 7ft by 5ft so their quite large scale. The initial aim was for the signs to stand out to passers-by as well as hopefully reaching out to parts of the [...]

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Summer Cocktail Menu Poster

This is a poster I designed for a Restaurant in Newry to promote their new Cocktail Menu. I have used colours that in my opinion represent the “Summer Time”. I also included a lot of circles in my imagery to symbolise bubbles coming from the cocktail glass. This font is perfect for the fun beverage, [...]

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Placement Year

Over the summer I’ve been thinking quite a lot about our placement year, and Im not too sure if want to study abroad or work in a company here. It’s a decision that we are all faced with, and with a vast amount of graphics companies out there in Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland [...]

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Hello!

I finally got my blog set up! I’ve been looking at a lot of illustrators lately because I think that I should have more knowledge on contemporary illustrators.  I’m going to start off by showing some great examples of illustration in advertising.

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D&AD Student Awards 2009 Annual

Congratulations to Jean McMahon one of our final year students for being selected for inclusion in the prestigious D&AD Annual.
D&AD, established in 1962, has been running student awards for the last 31 years. In that time this educational charitable organization has championed creative endeavour globally, inspiring and promoting generations of new talent.
You can view Jean’s [...]

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Student Viscom Blogs

I thought it might be useful to post a list of Viscommers Blogs so far. Some have a few posts already, others are in the early stages of development. If you have any other links to add to the list, post a comment, and I’ll update this post. And then I’m sure once everyone has [...]

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Design Blog Links

Here’s a list of great design blogs I subscribe to for research and inspiration. Feel free to share any that you read as well!
[RSS] abduzeedo
[RSS] All Graphic Design.com
[RSS] Creative Curio
[RSS] Creative Review
[RSS] David Airey
[RSS] formfiftyfive
[RSS] ILoveTypography
[RSS] Information Architects Japan
[RSS] ISO50
[RSS] It’s Nice That
[RSS] Jason Santa Maria
[RSS] Just Creative Design
[RSS] Noisy Decent Graphics
[RSS] Reform Revolution
[RSS] Smashing Magazine
[RSS] TheDieline
[RSS] TypeNeu
[RSS] Viscom Belfast
[RSS] You The Designer

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