Jean O'Brien: Web and Graphic Design

Archive: Entries from September 2008

Oxjam Gig Cards

Date created: Spring 2008
About the Project: Every year Oxfam Ireland prints about a billion Christmas cards, and our printers allow us to use the offcuts from these cards for other projects. This year we used them to print off little handouts for Oxjam; they’re business card-sized and can be filled in on the reverse […]

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Tags: Oxfam · Print Design

Inspiration: Installations from LeDouxville

I’ve seen the incredible illustrations of Jesse LeDoux around the place, but just found his website today through the lovely Design Freebies blog.

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Tags: Inspiration

Brand new shiny Oxfamireland.org homepage

Date created: September 2008
Web Address: www.oxfamireland.org
About the Project: I’ve just redesigned the Oxfamireland.org homepage - I’d always felt that the original page was too cluttered, and usability research indicated that it needed less content and more clearly marked hierarchies.  I’ve changed it to a tabbed layout so that users can switch between categories of […]

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Tags: Oxfam · Web Design

Voucher for the Festival of World Cultures

I designed this voucher for Oxfam which was handed out at the Festival of World Cultures. It’s perforated; one half promotes a competition and the other has a ‘€10 off’ voucher for our Fair Trade Shops. The reverse (photo below) has the competition entry form and a map showing the location of our […]

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Tags: Oxfam · Print Design

Vinyl Banners for Oxfam

Date created: Summer 2007
About the Project: I created a shed-load of large print materials for Oxfam last summer, for use at outdoor events. The above are large vinyl banners showing our logo and a welcome message, and our logo and the url of our website. The photos were taken at this year’s Electric […]

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Tags: Oxfam · Print Design