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 Dublin Fair Trade Shop.
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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 Picnic; see our Flickr stream for more.
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Date created: Summer 2008
Web Address: www.oxfamireland.org/oxjam
About the Project: I’ve just been working on a major redesign of our Oxjam site. I needed something a bit more dynamic than the flat html we used last year - our Oxjam Officer will be blogging and I also wanted to add some content-rich features like a gig calendar and a google map. So I set it up through lovely old trusty old Wordpress. Having said that, Wordpress did give me some rare trouble this time, but we won’t be falling out over such a small snafu.
I went plugin loopy for this installation, and found some really great addons out there. Big thanks to the geniuses who created the Event Calendar, the Contact Form 7 and MyPageOrder in particular; you’ve made my life a lot easier.
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Date created: August 2008
About the Project: I’m feeling very inspired by and drawn to hand-drawn type at the moment - partly because it can look unique, personal and full of a charm that computer fonts rarely have. I also am trying to make more stuff by hand and spend less time at the computer. So I drew this card for a friend’s wedding, and found it really enjoyable to do. I forgot something that I would have known when I was eleven, however - markers make your pen lines bleed and it’s difficult to get smooth areas of colour. I’ll try crayons or pencils next time.
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I found this illustration on the brand new blog So Much Pileup - run by a designer who wants to share the piles of interesting paper from his studio. As opposed to hoarding them, crazy-hermit style, like myself. See the full post for more in the same series.
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