One Strong Arm
I did an internship at One Strong Arm, a design and letterpress print studio in Dublin run by Dave Darcy, from May - July 2022 where I assisted on various projects including layouts for menus, annual reports, booklets, magazines, branding, and social media.
Scoop Foundation
I was tasked with creating a logo for a new fundraising project by the Scoop Foundation called ‘Outside the Box’. Together with Dublin Pizza Company, Scoop would advertise various artworks by Irish street artists on pizza boxes and then hold an auction for the artworks after each month of promotion.
After many iterations, this logo was chosen and went
live
on social media in a promotional video in October 2022.
Queer Culture Ireland
One of our branding clients was Queer Culture Ireland. I came to the project early on when only the typeface and colours had been chosen. It was then my job to experiment with these assets and see how they could be applied to letterheads, business cards, compliment cards etc. Below are some of the examples of what I came up with. Unfortunately I didn’t get to see the project through to the end, but I really enjoyed working on these elements.
Direction 1
Direction 2
Thank you
I got the chance to do a lot of letterpress printing towards the end of my internship. I made a series of different thank you notes to be packaged with prints when people purchased them.
Trans/Intersex Pride
I printed a few letterpress posters for GCN for the Trans and Intersex Pride Parade in July 2022. I attended the march as well and saw lots of people holding the posters there.
Re-prints
We were re-printing some of the best selling prints and I got the opportunity to print the ones shown here. Both are very different so I got to try out different techniques on the letterpress. ‘All You Need Is Love’ was printed using a special plate made for the background text, and then larger letters were printed on top.
We were re-printing some of the best selling prints and I got the opportunity to print the ones shown here. Both are very different so I got to try out different techniques on the letterpress. ‘All You Need Is Love’ was printed using a special plate made for the background text, and then larger letters were printed on top.
‘Ever Tried. Ever Failed.’ was a longer process. Not only were there two colours, but I couldn’t print every word in one go because there weren’t enough letters (which really helped me understand how things were done in the past). Each piece of paper was probably put through the press about 10 times!
