Antrophe Design Portfolio

About The Designer

In my last position in UCD Students Union I was responsible for designing and maintaining an extremely popular website at UCDSU.net. This entailed responsiblility for graphic design work such as creating a new logo to brand both the union and the site with a consistent identity which it previously lacked.

I was also responsible designing campaign based information posters and laying out union publications. I was also resposnible for submitting them to printers using software such as Photoshop, Quark and In design on this year long contract. This job entailed starting from scratch in both the aesthetic presentation of the union, as well as more importantly creating a major communication infrastructure where none existed before, and then of course all of this needed to be promoted intensively on campus.

A major aspect of this job involved working as part of team and engaging in a rapid turnover of briefs, as well as consulting with representatives over the best way to carry out campaigns. I was also involved in the organization of major on-campus events like the Freshers Ball, The Democracy Now Campaign, various gigs and fundraisers, as well as engaging in media monitoring. As the job finished, I also had to seek a successor through an interview process and train them into the position.

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The Get Up Stand Up Campaign Posters And Leafletts

On this voluntary commission I was responsible for conveying a number of very simple but old ideas through posters. The basic idea of this campaign was to encourage trade union membership among young, people in precarious and temporary work. Graphically to do this required breaking away from old stereotypical left wing imagery and juxtaposing modern representations of work flexibility alongside the old idea that workers and bosses have nothing in common.

I also had to design an information flier for the campaign in a similar vein which can be downloaded here through Indymedia.

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Leafletts And Fliers Designed For Indymedia

For this brief I was asked by the Indymedia news site to design two fliers to advertsie the fact that site users can log on and publish their own news and photographs. The fliers utilise a street art sensibility.

Indymedia Flier

The fliers were designed to be an A5 back and front downloadable file, you can view the one on writing the news and the other on Sharing Images through Indymedia.

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Street Art From Dublin

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UCD Student's Union Brief

This was a poster to advertise computer induction courses organised by the union.

This was a leaflett used to build for the Democracy Now campaign on campus.

This was a poster used to build for a freshers ball warm up party.

This was a poster designed for a sexual health and awareness week.

The above is a sample template of the Union Page in one of the college newspapers, a broadsheet format it was designed for the simplicity in which stories and events could be slotted into place for inclustion in a forthnightly paper.

The website launch was one of the biggest aspects of my brief, the above poster was used to convey the idea of open publishing and the community nature of the site. The site which resides at http://www.ucdsu.net has proven to be very popular as a community based forum for students in UCD.

This was a poster designed as promotional material for an annual christmas party the union organises.

These posters were designed to advertise the officer hours of union representatives around campus.

This poster was used as a primer for Rainbow Week.

This poster was commisioned by USI, in order to cariciture government figures.

This poster was used to build for a protest organised by SIPTU and UCDSU

This poster was used to build for rainbow week.

This poster was designed to encourage the use of Irish in student bars during Irish Language week.

This cariciture was commisioned in order to poke fun at the College President over his wasteful expenditure on a private gym when books were going short in the library

A poster for a tsunami fundraiser.

The above graphic was used as the front page of the union's Freshers Guide which I was responsible for designing and editing. You can download sections on accommodation., educational issues, union democracy, equality rights and welfare issues from the UCDSU.net website. The graphic provoked much debate on the relationship between student unions and the political parties running the country.

A self explained poster for a smoking cessation campaign.

A poster to encourage the idea that 'no means no' in sexual relations.

A poster for a film festival on campus.

The above poster is a caricature of the relationship between the UCD college authorities and the government, displaying the College president to be a puppet of the state when it comes to privatisation and matters of funding.

The above are a series of posters designed for the protests against the Bush visit in which UCD Students Union took part.

The above photos are from a selection of tshirts I designed for the union over the course of the year.

What follows are two logos designed for a sub section campaign in the nion to raise money for GOAL Jersey Day, and the main UCD Students Union Logo I designed.

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