Shortlisted for the IDI Design Awards

Amazing News! Clare Lynch Creative been shortlisted in the IDI Irish Design Awards in two different categories. In the Packaging Design category for @agoodmoodfood.ie and also in the Book Illustration category for the recently launched illustrated poetry book ‘Hello Hinterland‘. Such exciting news!

Thanks very much to @idi_ireland. Brilliant news to receive!

The IDI (Irish Design Institute) host the Irish Design Awards ceremony annually, which celebrate and reward the best of Irish designers, nurturing the talent of the future and setting creative benchmarks for the industry.

Looking forward to the Awards Night Ceremony in the Marker Hotel on 17th November 2022 🙂

#IDIAwards #IDIAwards2022 #IDI #IDIDesignAwards

October 13, 2022 /  

The Big Idea Mentoring

Excited to be a mentor with The Big Idea – Ireland!

A brilliant initiative and amazing opportunity aimed to connect innovative Transition Year students with mentors in the design industry on their creative thinking.

The Big Idea is a practically-oriented creative programme which empowers students to use their creativity and design thinking to develop a B!G Idea solution to tackle society’s biggest challenges.

It aims to foster creativity and innovation within the Irish education system so that current students can develop the tools to think outside the box. It shows the importance of design in schools. Exciting to see the ideas the students are coming up with and help them develop their Big Ideas!

April 5, 2022 /  

Your Life Audit Brand Launch

Brilliant to recently work on the branding of Your Life Audit. Your Life Audit is a business and brand run by Catriona Kennedy, specialising in one-to-one personal life coaching, corporate coaching and coaching for schools and groups. It aims to empower clients with the tools and resources they need to unlock, achieve and maximise their personal and professional development and fulfilment.

Life coaching is a rewarding process aimed at giving you the control and direction to embrace life and fulfil your potential. It can help you identify and utilise your innate skills and qualities, develop optimism and build positive relationships, find true meaning and purpose in life and more. To put simply, coaching is all about creating positive change for you, with you and in you.

I highlighted the ‘U’ in Your Life Audit to emphasise one of the main points that they would like to get across to their clients, that –

‘Once you focus on you, anything can happen’.

Catriona Kennedy, Your Life Audit Coaching

More to come on this brand project in the ‘Portfolio’ section of my website.

For now, find out more on their website:

www.yourlifeaudit.ie

Or on their social media pages:

https://www.instagram.com/your_lifeaudit/

https://www.facebook.com/YourLifeAudit/

February 18, 2022 /  

IDA Awards Winner 2021

Excited to hear I will be receiving an Honourable Mention Award in the International Design Awards for several of my recent Brand Identity and Packaging Design projects, including Katie’s Kombucha, A Good Mood Food, Saltrock Dairy and Oat in the City. A great start to the New Year!

The IDA awards celebrate and promote creative talent and expertise in graphic design and other areas such as architecture, fashion and product design so it is a great achievement to recognised as an award winner in these awards.

See more here:

Katie’s Kombucha
https://www.idesignawards.com/winners/zoom.php?eid=9-41218-21

A Good Mood Food
https://www.idesignawards.com/winners/zoom.php?eid=9-41221-21

Saltrock Dairy
https://www.idesignawards.com/winners/zoom.php?eid=9-41217-21

Oat in the City
https://www.idesignawards.com/winners/zoom.php?eid=9-41213-21



January 7, 2022 /  

B4B Feature

A big thank you to the B4B network for such a lovely feature about Clare Lynch Creative and our design work. It’s always good to get nice mentions like this as it helps other businesses who are interested in getting Brand Identity, Packaging and Design work to be aware of our services and encourages them to get in touch to enquire about their own projects. Thanks again B4B! You can read the article here…

Clare Lynch Creative
October 7, 2021 /  

‘Oat in the City’ in the Media

Our latest brand to launch ‘Oat in the City’ Irish oatmeal drinks were featured on RTE radio on 3rd July 2021, where Kilbeggan-based farm owner Liam Lynam tells the story of how the character Eoin the Oat came to market, featured on his range of healthy and sustainable oat-milk drinks, and the story about how we came up with the the brand name. They are off to a successful start so far and are available to purchase in Aldi stores throughout Ireland, Donnybrook Fair stores in Malahide and Donnybrook in Dublin, Nolans in Clontarf and selected Super Valu’s.

Have a listen to the interview here and keep an eye out for Eoin the Oat, the brand character, on the front of the brand packaging on the range of Oat in the City oatmeal drinks:

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/countrywide/programmes/2021/0703/1232829-countrywide-saturday-3-july-2021/

July 14, 2021 /  

Client Success – Flying Squirrel Vegan Cheese

I love to see my client’s do well, it’s a sign that their brand packaging has worked well and communicates the ethos and values of their product and brand to consumers.

Some successes of Flying Squirrel, a vegan plant-based cheese range are as follows:

The Happy Pear Stockist

Getting stocked and featured with ‘The Happy Pear‘, a successful health food brand and cafe in Greystones in County Wicklow, run by the two handsome twin brothers Stephen & David Flynn.

The Irish Times News Feature

A feature of the lovely Colm Farrell with ‘Flying Squirrel’ vegan cheese in the Irish Times News by Olive Keogh in July 2020 along with some other Irish food entrepreneurs, speaking about their success stories and how they are pushing boundaries with their products. Read the full article here.

Blas na hÉireann Irish Food Awards 2020 Finalist

Flying Squirrel has also been shortlisted for this year’s Blas na hÉireann Awards #blas2020. Blas na hÉireann is The Irish Food Awards – they recognise and reward the very best of Irish Food & Drinks and the passionate people who are behind making them. You can view more about there awards below:

Colm Farrell, the owner of Flying Squirrel is extremely passionate about what he does – creating delicious plant-based vegan cheese, free from any harm to animals and good to the environment. His passion, genuine nature and friendly, fun spirit translate across everything he does and I think this has helped his success. I love to see clients like Colm shine and reach their goals.

Flying Squirrel vegan cheese is currently stocked in a number of locations including Super Valu Deansgrange, @supervaluchurchtown #supervaluastonquay @thecarrotstail @its_a__trap_ and @thehappypear

August 26, 2020 /  

Design Awards Interview Feature

After winning Gold in the Muse Awards 2020, their linked marketing company ‘MuseDotWorld’ requested an interview with me on my thoughts on design, my experiences in the design industry, working with clients on their brand packaging. You can read more about it here.

August 7, 2020 /  

International Design Award Winner 2019

International Design Award Winner 2019

Just arrived back from an amazing trip to the sunny Los Angeles for the International Design Awards ceremony in the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood! It was brilliant to be recognised among such a talented and creative group of international designers.

The IDA awards celebrate and promote creative talent and expertise in graphic design and other areas such as architecture, fashion and product design.

I received an Honourable Mention Award in the IDA Awards for the brand identity and design of Origin Chain Brand Identity, a blockchain software solutions providing users with reliable proof-of-origin services and another award for the brand identity for Brid Kehoe Coaching, a life coach practice helping guide people towards meeting their goals.

The ceremony was very exciting, with a cocktail reception beforehand, where there was a lot of mingling of creatives in the beautiful Pacific Design Centre.

See more on the IDA Awards website or on my website.

  • Proud IDA Award Winner!
  • IDA Awards 2019
  • Pacific Design Centre, West Hollywood
  • Winner times two!
  • Silver Screen Theatre
  • Drinks Reception
April 30, 2019 /  

Frēsh 18 Award Winner – Packaging Design

Frēsh 18 Carbon Award Winner





It was a great achievement to receive a Carbon Award in the Frēsh 18 Design Awards for the packaging design work of Polski Polish Bread. I really enjoyed working on it, so to receive great recognition for the standard of work, gives an added sense of accomplishment that it has been received well by creative judges and peers in the design industry.

The POLSKI Bread range was created by authentic Polish bakery Inter Europol, exclusively for Tesco consumers across the UK. Known for their taste, purity, and authenticity, they’re the largest clean-label bakery in Poland, producing real slow-rise sourdough bread and other bakery products using traditional stone-baking methods for over 30 countries worldwide.

“The brief was to design a new packaging brand for a range of Polish bread to be launched in Tesco stores across the UK. The main target audience is consumers who love Polish food, therefore it was important to ensure that the branding made a clear, instant connection to Poland, for strong shelf stand-out.

The result is engaging design, carefully tailored to their target audience.

Find out more about the work here or see the winning entry on the Frēsh 18 Design Awards website.

August 8, 2018 /  

IDA Design Awards Winner – Brand Identity

International Design Awards 2017 Winner

 











I was delighted to recently receive an Honorable Mention in the results of the 2017 International Design Awards for the brand identity, brand book and promotional collateral for my client Brid Kehoe Coaching.

Brid Kehoe Coaching are a holistic coaching practise who support clients in taking steps forward to change for the better and help them to uncover new routes to get there. They guide clients to improve wellbeing and focus, change career and much more through support, encouragement and introducing new creative strategies.

Find out more about the work here or see the winning entry on the IDA award winners website.

 

July 29, 2018 /  

MARA Cultural Centre










Conceptual artwork for a cultural centre in Connemara with the guidance. The architect designed the building focusing on it’s viewpoints and perspectives of facing mountains and the sea with large windows revealing views of each. I used this to guide the design for this project, focussing on the shapes and patterns of the local environment as graphic elements and the idea of revealing using the cutout shapes of the centre’s name ‘MARA’ and the folded layers of the poster, which folds down to a flyer.

The word MARA is a play on the word Connemara and stands for the attractions offered in the cultural centre, such as Music, Arts, Reading and Action. The wood version of the poster was created using the laser cutting process, where the design is etched / burnt in to the wood and the shapes are cut out as separate elements, which can be used around the centre.

 

July 9, 2018 /