Tenterhooks

Visual identity for a new co-working space for artisans and creatives in historic Newmarket Square, Dublin 8.

The design strategy was inspired by the visual and material heritage of the Huguenots, skilled weavers and lacemakers, who stretched their fabric on tenterhooks in nearby tenterfields.

The logo motif blends two stylised tenterhooks with a central square signifying Newmarket Square and the locality. A bespoke pattern, derived from the logo, further unites past with present by reflecting the Huguenots' renowned weaving and lacemaking skills.

Alice Fitzgerald Artist

Dublin-based visual artist Alice Fitzgerald creates striking single colour screen prints whose simple elements seek to strike a balance between order and chaos, with no single form losing its identity to whole.

Her visual language is informed by ‘hard edge’ artists, mystical artists like Hilma af Klint, and the shapes and textures she encounters in her city.

Alice is committed to the print medium out of her democratic conviction that everyone should be able to own and enjoy art.

The design strategy for her visual identity was to create a simple marque and sympathetic environment for her work to live in while never overpowering its presence.

The solution lay in her own personal signature. Tapping into the long tradition of monograms common among artists associated with the print medium, such as Albrecht Dürer and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, her logo is an adaptation of a common typographic ligature (Æ) to form the artist’s initials, itself communicating her self-imposed artistic rule that each form must touch one another.

Kling Klang

Visual identity for a monthly club night of ‘music from another place'. Reflecting the night's musical obsessions, the approach was inspired by the experimental music notation of Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis. The typographic treatment is onamatapaeic, echoing the sounds of the night.

CGI Annual Reports

Print design for the Catholic Guides of Ireland annual reports 2013-2015, one of Ireland's guiding and scouting associations. Each colour in the palette represents each of CGI’s four sections and activity areas. Simple abstract shapes were developed to provide a playful visual language and pattern.

CGI International Handbook

Taking a slightly nostalgic and fresh visual approach, this design for a handbook to help CGI members organise and prepare for group travel overseas included the creation of 20 original illustrations, geometric patterns and the linen-embossed over included a pocket for members to keep important documents.