There is an illustration exhibition I am taking part in launching tonight in Solas, Dublin. All the details here It should be a very good one so please show up if you are around.
Now that the Rhyme Rag is with the printers, I am going to show you through the process of creating one of the images. At first I would scribble lots of ideas on paper, a bit like doing a brainstorming. Once I am happy with some of them, I start developing some aspects of them… [...]
It is all about the Rhyme Rag these days. Here you have a few more images. Please feel free to comment on them. All of them are developed completely in photoshop replicating a two-ink process. The two separations are drawn separately and then I create a simulation of the overprinting final effect and twick any [...]
Two more illustrations from the upcoming Rhyme Rag #5. Remember, the launch is taking place next 12th November 2009 in the Arts Office Kilkenny County Council. More details in facebook. See you there.
If you’ve been following these news for a while now, you are probably familiar with one of the highlights of every year: the Rhyme Rag poetry publication. The Arts Office Kilkenny County Council launches it every November and it is a great opportunity for young writes to see their work published. This year’s one is [...]
The Kilkenny Library Plan is almost ready to go to print. It is full of illustrations. All of them generated in Illustrator and finished in photoshop. I am quite happy with them as I wanted to get a bit of a feel of 60s/70s illustrators like David Weidman, which I think they have. The design [...]
These are some of the illustrations developed for the Kilkenny Library Services. They are done in illustrator and photoshop. The brief required explaining the range of services that libraries offer now as well as trying to give a “cool” image to them. These images are part of the strategic plan that will be shown here [...]
Poster design and illustration for the Museum of Broken Relationships that will be in Kilkenny next August as part of its world tour 2009. The museum dedicated to broken hearts was founded in Croatia. Authors of the concept Olinka Vištica and Drazen Grubišic decided to set up the museum after consoling friends over their failed [...]
Well, the Broadsheet #9 is done now. It came from the printers yesterday and they did a fantastic job. The broadsheet is printed in two inks (black and a fluorescent pink) on uncoated stock. It is fully illustrated using digital techniques to resemble charcoal and scraperboard drawings. The Broadsheet series are directed by Mary Butler [...]
The issue #9 of the famous Kilkenny Poetry Broadsheet is in the oven. I am very happy with it. It is designed to be produced with two inks, one of them fluorescent. And it is fully illustrated. As soon as it comes back from the printer I’ll show you a few shots. The broadsheet will [...]