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Gav — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:50:17 +0000

I’ve just printed about 50 of these promotional A4 prints for this weekend’s Ink & Paper show in Londing. It is you know.

The Sunken Path

Gav — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:03:34 +0000

The Sunken Path, the follow-up EP to Melodica Deathship’s Doom Your Cities, Doom Your Towns is back from the press and I got a couple of copies on vinyl from the band over the weekend.

My ideas for the cover evolved a couple of times over the last 6 months and after working on a couple of different concepts with the band this is how it turned out, gritty and simple. The print job is really nice and the black inlay creates a nice contrast between the inner and outer. Limited print run, available to buy here or download here.

MoreGrass brochure

Gav — Fri, 04 May 2012 12:36:06 +0000

Just got samples of the 24 page brochure I re-designed for MoreGrass Ireland. MoreGrass are the main importers of lawn grass seed into Ireland and wanted a fresh-looking layout to their annual product brochure.

500,000 copies were printed, most of which went out as inserts in national newspapers.

Back to school

Gav — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:34:04 +0000

I designed a logo for the local Educate Together national school a few years ago and they recently decided to print a run of branded tshirts and hoodies for the kids to wear. The logo reflects the view from the school grounds which consists of a skyline of forestry and the beginings of the Wickow mountains.

Orange Goblin, 2012

Gav — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:14:06 +0000

Orange Goblin played Dublin on April 20th in The Pint and kindly allowed me to design and screenprint another gigposter for them – this is my 3rd.

Mixing a bit of Durer collage up with some Jägermeister imagery and typography the result is this A2 / 23″ x 16″ print, matt gold and matt silver ink on heavy black card. Signed and numbered edition of 45 and on sale here. Support on the night came from Wizards of Firetop Mountain and By Any Means.

Melodica Deathship EP launch poster

Gav — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:54:13 +0000

April was a busy week for Melodica Deathship what with gigging & promoting the new EP “The Sunken Path”. Friday the 13th of April saw the formal launch of the EP with a gig upstairs in Whelan’s, Dublin with support from Estel, Magic Pockets and Pulled Apart. Entry included a copy of the EP on CD, the CD artwork is an adapt of the LP which is winging it’s way back from the pressing plant soon – will post about that as soon as it lands. I printed 200 brown card digipacks, one side only, more on those soon. Here’s how the poster turned out – it’s a slightly tweaked version of The Island starring Michael Caine (1980)

Frock ‘n Fabulous

Gav — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:32:22 +0000

I recently completed a logo and web styling programme for Kara Maher at Frock n Fabulous, “At FrocknFabulous Dress Hire, our idea is simple. We buy fabulous frocks, from our favourite Designers so you don’t have to.” The site was built by Dave Fox and has only just gone live – pop over and have a browse…

Sceason’s Greetings

Gav — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:51:58 +0000

I drew up a couple of Christmas cards for Science Gallery this year. Thanks to Conor Houghton for help with the tricky maths on the Santa card. The concept for the Fibonacci Christmas is also the work of Conor.

River’s Edge

Gav — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:06:54 +0000

As part of Hollywood Babylon‘s ongoing series of artist and designer-commissioned poster ‘re-imaginings’ I’ve just finished printing Alan Hynes‘ Rivers Edge print. I was a bit nervous printing this as Alan’s a stickler for detail but it’s turned out pretty nice all the same.

Two colour print (black and dark silver) on light grey, 200gsm Cartalina. Only a short run of about 45 here. These will be on sale online and also at various Christmas markets at Block T later this month. These are going to fly out I imagine…

Hollywood Babylon: Return of the Living Dead

Gav — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:32:37 +0000

At long last catching up on some Hollywood Babylon poster printing for the upcoming exhibition. This is Tom Lacey’s beauty for Return of the Living Dead. 3 colour A2 print (shocking pink, mint green/blue & dark blue) on 200gsm card. Edition of 30 prints – on sale here!