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 /

Hello Hinterland Book Launch

Really excited for the upcoming launch event for a book I illustrated, ‘Hello Hinterland’. The event will take place at Hodges Figgis Waterstones on Dawson Street, Dublin 2 on 28th April 2022 from 6-8pm.

Hello Hinterland is a collection of illustrated stories and poetry celebrating the culture and heritage of Fingal county on the east coast of Ireland, written by Martin Holohan. It’s colourful illustrations make it appealing to children, but it is a book for adults also, we want it to be enjoyed by everyone.

It was a pleasure to work on our first book together, from start to finish to this launch event. Martin is a charismatic person and writer. He gave me the freedom to work on the illustrations without direction, inspired by his writing. I then put the book design layout together using my graphic design skills, and we worked to get a quality hard-back print. Hopefully everyone will enjoy reading the book as much as we enjoyed creating it.

It is available to be purchased at Hodges Figgis (Waterstones) bookstore on Dawson Street (Dublin 2) and on their online store, Tales 4 Tadpoles bookstore on Drury Street (Dublin 2) and will be rolling out to a range of other bookstores in Dublin and Ireland in the coming months. It can also be ordered online from the book publisher Choice Publishing.

See more about the event here:

www.waterstones.com/events/hello-hinterland-book-launch/dublin-hodges-figgis

Enjoy and keep an eye out for it in bookstores near you in the coming months and year 🙂

See more about Hello Hinterland at:

www.hellohinterland.ie
www.instagram.com/holohanbooks

www.holohanbooks.ie

April 28, 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 /

MUSE Design Award Winner 2022

Delighted to win a Gold Award in the Muse Design Awards 2022 for the Packaging Design of the oat drink range, ‘Oat in the City’.

I also received Silver Design Awards for several other Brand Packaging Design projects, including Katie’s Kombucha, A Good Mood Food and Saltrock Dairy. Great to see my client’s branding being recognised.

The MUSE Awards aim to honour, promote and encourage creativity by providing a new standard of excellence. MUSE Design Awards is an international competition for designers whose craftsmanship shift paradigms. Their ingenuity and thorough works leave others in awe, and in so doing redefine boundaries and scope – much like a muse.

See more here:

Oat in the City
https://design.museaward.com/winner-info.php?id=7750

Katie’s Kombucha
https://design.museaward.com/winner-info.php?id=7748

A Good Mood Food
https://design.museaward.com/winner-info.php?id=7745

Saltrock Dairy
https://design.museaward.com/winner-info.php?id=7746

March 31, 2022 /

Featured: Favourite Book Design

Delighted to get the printed copy of the Favourite Book Design, 2021 edition, a book which showcases the ‘best of’ design around the world for that year. Clare Lynch Creative is proud to be featured for the Brand Packaging Design of ‘Flying Squirrel’ vegan cheese. This book is available to be purchased on their website and is a useful reference point to explore the latest successful graphic design and packaging design brands.

January 28, 2022 /

MIE Strategic Report 2021-26 Launch

Marino Institute of Education ‘Education Transforming Lives’

Great to attend the launch event of the MIE Strategic Report 2021-26 ‘Education Transforming Lives’ at the Marino Institute of Education yesterday.

The event was hosted by politician, TD and Minister for Further and Higher Education, SimonHarris. The report’s focus is on how ‘Education Transforms Lives’. Simon further emphasised the value in this, speaking about the need to broaden the conversation around pathways in to education, so that there is not just one direct ‘hit-or-miss’ route to higher education and training, but multiple avenues towards brighter futures for people from all backgrounds with different and varying types of skills-sets – enabling access to education for all.

We co-created the report in collaboration with Laura Macaulay at Navigate by Design.

The printing of this report is FSC Certified, supporting sustainability and the environment by using paper when printing that is FSC approved.

November 11, 2021 /

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 /

Clare Lynch Creative in the Media

We are delighted to be featured in a number of design publications.

These features included the German design magazine ‘Creativ Verpacken’ and Favourite Design Book 2021. Being featured in design publications is a real kudos to the work designed by Clare Lynch Creative. It has many benefits, such as:

It helps our clients grow in terms of brand recognition and customer base
It, in turn, helps new companies and clients to find us by coming across our work
It is an honour when reputable design publications recognise the work enough to showcase it as exemplary branding

The latest features we have received were for the Packaging Design of ‘Flying Squirrel’ vegan plant-based cheese. In the German Packaging Design publication ‘Creativ Verpacken‘, it was featured in January edition (page 38) and March edition (page 10) of the magazine in 2021. It has also been selected to be featured in the 2021 edition of ‘Favourite Design‘ book, a book which features the ‘best of’ design around the world for that year. This book will soon be available to be purchased on their website and is a useful reference point to explore the latest successful graphic design and packaging design brands.

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July 6, 2021 /

Creatives Against Covid-19 Exhibition at Guinness Storehouse

Creatives Against Covid Exhibition – Guinness Storehouse, Dublin

Creatives Against Covid-19 called on the creative industry to design and donate inspiring posters to raise funds for vulnerable women and children during the current crisis.

I was honoured to take part in this initiative. The organisers went on to create an exhibition in the Guinness Storehouse, displaying over 1,000 posters of all of the graphic designers, illustrators and creatives from over 30 countries who took part. Tickets for the exhibition can be bought here.

The posters can be purchased here at A3 size, with all proceeds being donated equally between ISPCC Childline and Women’s Aid.

My submission ‘Clear Vision Ahead‘, was a play on an optician’s eye chart and offering optimism towards what we can envision ahead post quarantine. It can be purchased in the ‘Typography’ section of their website here.

July 17, 2020 /

Creatives Against Covid-19 Campaign

Creatives Against Covid-19 called on the creative industry to design and donate inspiring posters to raise funds for vulnerable women and children during the current crisis.

The result was over 1,000 posters from over 30 countries, were designed and submitted. The great selection of posters from graphic designers, illustrators and creatives are currently on sale on their website here at A3 size, with all proceeds being donated equally between ISPCC Childline and Women’s Aid.

Here is my poster submission, ‘Clear Vision Ahead‘, playing on an optician’s eye chart and offering optimism towards what we can envision ahead post quarantine. It can be purchased in the ‘Typography’ section of their website here.

April 26, 2020 /

100 Archive Selection 2018

I was delighted to make the final 100 Archive Selection for 2018 with the project ‘A Guide to Getting Lost’. Each year, the 100 Archive selects the best 100 design projects in Ireland that year and archives it as a record of what design in Ireland was like at that moment in time.

The 100 Archive Selection showcases the breadth of graphic and communication design in Ireland: designers working in all contexts creating a range of outputs in all shapes and sizes. It highlights the impact of design on life, culture, commerce and society in Ireland and demonstrates the extent of Irish design’s diversity, maturity and quality.

The launch event, which announced the top 100 design projects for 2018, was held on May 21st, 2019 at the lovely 1WML building within the Windmill Quarter in Dublin’s city centre. It was a great night, jam-packed with Irish designers eager to find out the final selection.

The selected entry can be viewed here.

June 1, 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.