Mad Professor

Regular visitor for Dublin, Mad Professor was back here in January at the Sugar Club.

 

Leftfield / Orbital

 

Orbital and Leftfield, two band so linked in my memory I often get them mixed up. Selective Memory are bring them both to Dublin this summer.

Pilgrim St - Album Cover

 

Good lads Pilgrim St have recorded a new album. Like their last album, Ash Into Gold Dust,  they asked me to get the thing ready for production. They had all the work done, artwork, photos, the lot. But this one looks very different indeed. They had some artwork drawn by David Muyllabret and I put it all together. Very painless job that looks distinctive. A joy to work on.

Oisin Leech - Album Cover

 

 

I've been doing work for the Lost Bothers for a while now. So when Oisin did a solo album he asked me to help put the cover together. He decided on using paintings by Sinead Smyth, one on the front and one on the back. We had Sinead's whole catalogue to choose from and Oisin went with the two on the cover. In fact I can't really claim any design work on this album other than assembling it. Sinead's work is beautiful and the album is going down very well.

Davie Fury - Single Cover

 

Davie Furey released this special one-off single in December 2023.This was a collaboration with writer Richard Ball, who wrote the lyrics. Richard approached me to do the cover. I immediately thought of the beautiful wild flower artwork that Jennifer Lawton creates.  I pitched the idea and he loved it. The 3D and shiney nature of her work made it difficult to scan or photograph. Luckily the print process was very forgiving and the CD turned out great. Davie liked it so much he asked me to do his next album, see next post.

Davie Fury - Album Cover

 

After doing a single cover for Davie Furey he asked me to look at his next album cover. The single successfully used some of Jennifer Lawton's artwork so I thought it was only right to use her art again for the album. Above is the vinyl cover version, the text is slightly larger on the CD.

Oisin Leech (Photography)

A few months ago I did a photo session with Oisin Leech (The Lost Brothers) ahead of a project. Above is probably my fav photo from the session. Already photos from that session showing up online.

 

Girlpuppy

 

Two posters here for Girlpuppy who played in Dublin last night. The black one is the one I did after getting the show details. Then the agents provided the white photo.

Beyond the Pale Merch

Here is one of the t-shirts I designed for the Beyond The Pale festival. I thought they turned out really well. If you were at the festival and forgot to buy merchandise, or even if you weren't and want to wear this cool t-shirt, the promotors have set up a shop to sell the leftovers. In a few different colours, I like the black myself.

Shop here

Sure while we're at it, tickets are on sale for next years festival. It was excellent, recommended. 

Tickets here

 

Beyond The Pale '23

 

Here's a full page ad I put together for 2023's Beyond The Pale festival. This is a full line-up version including the day by day breakdown, the arts line up and the food attractions. It is designed to be poured over in print. This is an incredibly special festival with a relatively small capacity. Not one of these enormous mega festivals that are tough to endure.

The Middle Ages

Here's the cover I did for the band I play with. This is our new single. If I spent 10 minutes on this I'd be surprised. It is an inverted photo of a blank page of this pad I have with a dotted grid on each page. That's it. The last few singles we did use helvetica bold crossed out. Done. 

AppleMusic Link | Bandcamp Link | Spotify Link

 

In Conversation with Louise McSharry

 

Here's something I did that was quite specific. It met the brief and sold out two night of chat. This is the first "live podcast" job I've done. She does a popular podcast called Catch Up.