Galway Hooker is one of the first original Irish craft beers.

This award winning beer range needed a full brand re-design which reflected their maritime theme and also celebrated the artistic culture of Galway. Textured oil painting backgrounds were created to embrace the characteristics of each beer in the range.

A new logo was designed along with labels for their Irish Pale Ale, Sixty Knots IPA, Organic Pilsner and Honey Beer ranges. Packaging for their can multipacks, POS, merchandising and brand identity guidelines were also designed.

MySkin.ie is a skincare company based in Kilkenny owned by Denise O’ Connell a certified aromatherapist who creates natural skincare products in her workshop in Castle Yard in Kilkenny City.

Denise required a brand identity and packaging for her range that would reflect her natural and holistic approach. The packaging background represents the subtle colour of leaves and rose hip illustrations with the brown kraft paper coloured circular logo to re-enforce the natural and raw qualities in the serums, balms and body lotions. Her tagline of ‘nurture with nature’ further emphasises her natural approach.

A logo, labels and box and gift packaging were designed for her range of products, along with banners and signage for her workshop.

MADE in Kilkenny craft collective are together 10 years and asked Cmyk Design to design a book to celebrate their milestone anniversary. This multidisciplinary craft group features crafts of exceptional quality and has a diverse collection of makers including ceramics, jewellery, glass, wood and millinery design.

The 84 page book is a celebration of the quality craftspeople and showcases the vibrant and abundant craft scene of Kilkenny. The book was launched at this years Kilkenny Arts Festival.

I have extensive experience in design for the drinks industry in label design and luxury gift packaging. Over the years I have worked with Groups Pernod Ricard and Jameson Irish whiskey and have worked on updating and repositioning established products and on creating new product development projects.

I have also designed brochures, advertising and point of sale graphics for Jameson.

Roseacre soaps, shampoos and creams are all made from natural, organic products with a high percentage of goats milk. For the redesign we focused on the goats, incorporating commissioned photography with a natural feel to emphasise the gentle nature of the product range. The new logo sits at the top of the packaging in an olive band and a seal was designed to focus on the pureness message and ‘no additives’ within the range.

Packaging for the soap boxes range were designed along with labels for the shampoos, conditioners, liquid soaps and body creams. The Roseacre packaging has a clear and identifiable design that carries through its ranges. This branding has also been used for signage, web and exhibition graphics.

I have worked with C & C International and Tullamore Dew over many years and designed whiskey labels, luxury gift packaging, brochures and advertising for them.

I have designed labels and packing for the original whiskey, 12 year old whiskey, and malt whiskey ranges. I have also designed the label for the Heritage brand on sale in the Tullamore Dew distillery. Gift cartons were also designed to enhance the brands quality and heritage.

Open Circle Arts Collective (formally 5-6 Art Project) is a community arts programme open to women living in the Kilkenny area.

Cmyk Design won the pitch to design their logo and also designed art invitations and posters for various exhibitions that the art group held as well as some promotional advertising and signage.

I was recently asked to design UK post punk band Shame’s new second album. They wanted a monochrome look with typography to match the pink colour of their vinyl pressing.

I was delighted to work with them and Rough Trade management and we produced the designs and artwork in a very quick turnaround time. I think 17 year old me would have been very impressed to work with them and Rough Trade!

Their album ‘Drunk Tank Pink’ shot into the UK charts at number 8. (One ahead of Taylor Swift!)

Sweethearts is a Dublin based luxury gluten free brownie company. They required a bespoke logo, business cards, labels and packaging design for their range of cakes, sweet treats and sauces.

Exhibition and pull up banners were also designed for the Sweethearts brownies brand along with a promotional brochure, flyer and other POS material.

These digital illustrations were created in Adobe Illustrator for a range of greeting card designs.

Over the years I have worked with Groupe Pernod Ricard on a range of whiskey label and packaging designs, new product development projects, brochures and advertising for Midleton whiskey.

I designed a logo for Wildwood Trading Company Limided, a furniture company based in Cork making furniture from sustainable forests.

A range of product brochures, point of sale, stationary, press advertising and large exhibition graphics were also designed.

Kilkenny based band The Huja’s needed a logo for their band and a CD design for their album latest release.

Posters, flyers and other promotional graphics were also designed for the band.

I designed Lakeshore Fine Foods logo for Boyne Valley Foods and a range of trifle packaging for their new dessert line was also designed.

We have designed logos, brochures, posters, press advertising, point of sale, exhibition, shop graphics and web graphics for Petmania over many years.

I designed The Wine Centre logo and have also designed many press advertising, posters, point of sale and shop and exhibition graphics for them over the years.

Cmyk Design have designed brochures, posters, press advertising, point of sale, direct mail, shop, exhibition and web graphics for Meubles department store based in Kilkenny over many years.