Graphic designer and book artist based in Dublin. Interested in creating work with an analogue, nostalgic feel.

EXPERIENCE

︎︎︎ Technical Officer (NCAD, Dublin) — current
︎︎︎ Designer in Residence (NCAD, Dublin) — current
︎︎︎ The Salvage Press — current
︎︎︎ Distillers Press — current
︎︎︎ Freelance, 2020 — present
︎︎︎ Studio Airport 2019 — 2020
︎︎︎ Buro Reng 2018
︎︎︎ Post Studio 2017

COMMENDATIONS

︎︎︎ Work selected for 100 Archive (2022, 2023)
︎︎︎ Recipient of NCAD Design Student of the Year Award (2019)
︎︎︎ Awarded membership to International Society of Typographic Designers (2019)

EDUCATION

︎︎︎ 1:1 First Class Honours,
BA (Hons) Visual Communication with Critical Cultures International, National College of Art & Design (2019)
︎︎︎ Erasmus Semester, Academy Minerva, NL (2018)

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Ellen Martin –Friel

GRIEF’S BROKEN BROW

2023



LETTERPRESS

Created in assistance to Jamie Murphy at The Salvage Press, Grief’s Broken Brow is a letterpress book commissioned by UCD’s Poetry as Commemoration initiative as part of the Decade of Centenaries. The book contains ten poems and original artwork inspired by the Irish War of Independence & Civil War Archives. Typeset by hand and printed on a Western Proofing Press, bound in Dublin with suminigashi cover sheets over board. 

Artworks by James Earley (2023)
Suminigashi sheets by Louise Gaffney
Binding by Duffy & Sons Bookbinders in Dublin’s Five Lamps Area