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 /

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 /

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 /

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.