Paris Packaging Week 2025

Great to visit Paris Packaging Week 2025 recently.

There was so much inspiration with beautiful work and the process to creating it showcased, along with interesting topics discussed, such as sustainability in packaging design, exploring new materials such as paper bottles for drinks, adapting to change – such as a world where AI is impacting everything and what it’s role is in the design industry, the key to building strong brands, current packaging design trends, thinking big and thinking differently with brand strategy and innovation, and how to work effectively to be most creative and productive, whilst maintaining a healthy work to life balance and staying creatively inspired.

A big thank you to Paris Packaging Week and PENTAWARDS for a brilliant few days and line-up of speakers.

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February 4, 2025 /  

Bounce Design Event

It was great to attend the new design event, BOUNCE, run by the IDI (Irish Design Network). The event ran over January 9th – 10th 2025, at Trinity College Dublin. This two-day event, crafted by the design community for the community, offered fresh, critical perspectives on the design process, giving designers a unique opportunity to explore, engage, and be inspired.

Since the previously run Dublin-based design festival Offset ceased – creatives have missed design conferences like this, as an opportunity to network and stay inspired with the latest projects happening in all areas of design worldwide, so this was a great step towards a positive resurgence of design inspiration and events in Dublin.

January 14, 2025 /  

The Tasting Vault Favourite Design Feature

Thanks to the Favourite Design blog for the feature of our Brand Packaging Design project for The Tasting Vault Whiskey Tasting Subscription Services on their website, Instagram and Facebook pages. The Tasting Vault is a whiskey and spirits subscription service that provides consumers with curated tasting experiences, allowing them to explore a wide range of premium whiskeys from around the world. The company solves the ‘try before you buy’ challenge by offering tasting packs that let customers sample new and famous whiskeys before committing to full bottles.

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November 6, 2024 /  

IDI Design Awards 2024 Shortlist

So excited to find out our work has been shortlisted in the Institute of Designers in Ireland Design Awards 2024 for two projects – @the_tasting_vault and The Woofing Oven 🎉 Woohoo!!


Photography: Brendan Ryan Photo
Packaging Printing: JJ O’Toole | ePac Flexible Packaging | brandpack

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The Tasting Vault – Whiskey Subscription Service

The Woofing Oven Dog Bakery

October 18, 2024 /  

Luvin Letters in Design Conference

Great to attend the recent Dublin design event Luvin Letters In Design – for Typography & Lettering lovers, which ran over the 4th and 5th October in the Complex Arts Centre, Dublin 1.

There was an inspiring line up of speakers and some live mural painting with artists Theosone (Berlin), Milen Balbuzanov (Bulgaria), Horhay Design (Spain) and Calligrafreaks (Berlin).

Here’s to more of these design events returning to the Dublin design scene!

See more here: https://luvinletters.com

October 9, 2024 /  

Dublin Art Book Fair 2023: Polyphonic

It’s great to see the book Hello Hinterland featured as part of Dublin Art Book Fair 2023: Polyphonic curated by Wendy Erskine. 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, and illustrated and designed by Clare Lynch Creative.

Polyphonic, launched on 7th December 2023, runs in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios from 8 December – 17 December 2023. Dublin Art Book Fair, Ireland’s leading art book fair and centre for artist books presents its thirteen edition. Taking place in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios over ten days, DABF champions small, creative and independent publishers, and both Irish and international artist books. Within this mix, over 500 newly published and unusual publications on art, design, visual culture, philosophy, architecture, select fiction and poetry will feature alongside a special selection of nominated books by Guest Curator Wendy Erskine.

Wendy Erskine’s theme Polyphonic, is celebrated further through a programme of talks, readings, workshops, book events and participatory events. Interested in the innumerable viewpoints, stories or perspectives that can originate from single source, Erskine’s theme, Polyphonic celebrates the creation of artwork that brings multiple voices together.

December 6, 2023 /  

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 /  

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.

Muse Packaging Design Award Winner 2022

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 /  

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 /  

Halftone Exhibition 2019

It was great to be part of the Halftone exhibition again this year hosted by PhotoIreland. It is held for a month each year in The Library Project in Temple Bar in Dublin’s city centre. This was the fifth year running of the print fair, which brings together a large selection of works by established and emerging artists, showcasing Ireland’s exciting art scene. It was great to be part of the Halftone exhibition again this year hosted by PhotoIreland.

A perk was selling lots of prints, which is great to know other people are enjoying my art in their homes or workplace.

See more about Halftone here or my selected entry here.

December 2, 2019 /