The current core custom of this business is website design, Illustration, animation and art tuition.

Website Design projects
Image Interiors Magazine,

Companies Registration Office & Adare Manor - through Concept Design Group,

Golfworks & St. John's Hospital [Cork] - through Equinox eBusiness Solutions.

Illustration
Coca-Cola & Ster Century Cinemas promo American 50's style flyer - through Gravit8 Interactive,

Coca-Cola & Supermacs point-of-sale graphical material for Christmas promotion. Concept work - through Gravit8 Interactive.

Animation RTE's
30 second animated TV license commercial: drawn with pencil and paper and re-rendered, coloured and edited on a Harry computer Editing Suite.

other work:

Art Teaching
John Scottus School, Dublin 2: Teaching art to 3rd and 4th class boys. Based largely on the 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain' book. This is being taught in co-operation with the Dept. of Education.

Chanel College Coolock: Art teaching with 1st to 6th class boys. National Curriculum.

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I was a key member of this successful Dublin Internet Agency.

In addition to personally designing over 35 websites for a wide range of high profile clients, I also hired and led the design department. I successfully guided our client and in-house working relationships; helping to steer each project to a successful conclusion, passing on the benefit of my experience and knowledge in an educational and I hope, inspirational capacity to clients and colleagues.

I constantly pushed to implement new systems to improve department and company-wide practices on projects including: Pre-Production Client Questionnaire, Project Documentation on intranet, Quality-Checklists, centrally stored eMail correspondence, standardised website architectures. I authored the company design-policy and published it on our Intranet for easy reference and updates.

Typical visual design work:

• dynamically-driven websites and back-offices for major clients
• eCommerce Websites using Templates that I developed myself specifically for equinox' Provendor Software
• Semi-Static sites with some database-served content
• Design oriented 'Brochure' sites
• Equinox' Identity, Branding & Company Literature
• Equinox' press advertisements
• the Equinox Website [2nd & 3rd incarnations - new one in development by the MD with some input from myself]
• the Equinox Intranet

I am proud above all of the good relationships that I built with clients and staff, and their positive feedback and appreciation.

Completed: DCC, YHA England & Wales, The International Rugby Board [3 sites], Forfas, National Accreditation Board, St. John of God Services, APSO, Department of Justice 'Know Racism', IDI, National Standards Authority of Ireland [NSAI], Penco Insurances, Clio Forde, Gaeltarra Ireland

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I was the Senior Designer at Baltimore Technologies during their successful period in 1999.

At that time they had 15 offices worldwide with over 600 staff. I was responsible for creating, managing and when required, out-sourcing the printed marketing material; brochures, flyers, cards, badges, stickers, logotypes. All of which tended to involve imminent and strict deadlines, delivery to national and international offices and print houses.

I was also heavily involved in the design work for their websites. This broad scope of work of course brought me into co-operation with all departments and many offices globally.

While at SoftCo I designed and created print and promotional material, contributed to the website and intranet and advised on exhibition graphics and stands.

I also worked, for a time concurrently, at eCom an experimental subsidiary company. For eCom I worked conceptually on, and designed the Architecture & landscape for an ambitious Web-linked CD ROM eCommerce product featuring an enormous shopping environment. I collaborated with new recruits to translate these designs into 3D Studio Max models then used in the embeddedQuick-Time VR movies.

Creative Director, Manager, Animator, Illustrator, Producer

Illustration side of the business: The Irish Times, Independent Newspaper group, Irish Press, Hot Press, Image Magazine, RTE, Check out, Children of the Acorn [Book cover] and graphic design firms.

Animation projects for RTE included: School Around the Corner, The Den, The Bank Of Ireland RTE Proms, Bon Voyage [ICAD Award Nomination], Morbegs and Our House.Animation

TV commercials for advertising agencies: Coala Coal [Arks Advertising], and Connswater Shopping Centre [Anderson Advertising].

Showreel available | animation section

If I was actually in-house; I'd produce cleaned-up key drawings of the scenes and they'd be inbetweened by an assistant. In my case, I totally animated, in-betweened and cleaned-up my own scenes ready for photocopying and cel painting.

'The Call of the Wild' a Jack London Story adapted for Television

Showreel available | animation section

Within this type of Studio system the job titles are a little inflated. Basically I took the cleaned-up versions of the animator's key drawings, 'in-betweened' them and cleaned them up.

'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' a Saturday Morning Style TV animation series

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