IAPI One To Watch Award 2013 nomination

I am absolutely delighted to be nominated for the IAPI One to Watch Award 2013. The award recognises the achievement of excellent professional standards, creativity and innovation in marketing communications by a graduate student of the IAPI/DIT Advertising and Digital Communication Postgraduate programme. The nominees are voted by their peers and then the winner will be decided by lecturers from the postgrad. What a great finale to a brilliant year. The Winner will be announced on Tuesday March 12th in Smock Alley, Dublin.

School's Out for Summer!

There's been a substantial gap in the frequency of posts here but for good reason; in January I was accepted onto IAPI & DIT's Advertising & Digital Communications Postgrad. I applied for the course with a view to furthering my education and keeping pace with the rapidly changing face of advertising and the role of digital technology within the field. Semester one has ended for the summer and the course is living up to the lofty reviews from graduates, as well as my own expectations. Roll on Semester two!

Ads of Super Bowl 2012

Thanks Mashable for collating all of these. Some good, more bad unfortunately, babies and dogs can't hide a poor ad. VW, very disappointing to see them attempt to shoehorn in the Star Wars theme. Some of the better ones are the Chevrolet Mayan Apocalypse, History Channel's Swamp People, Audi's Vampires and for purely nostalgic reasons Honda's Broderick's Day-Off. None will live very long in the memory or have broken any new ground in what is the biggest commercial window in the world. Opportunities missed all round.

ICAD Creative Shorts

ICAD presents ICAD Meitheal. A series of events designed to celebrate the creativity of ICAD folk.

First event is an evening of eleven short films all shown together on this one epic night, taking place in The Sugar Club on the 26th of this month.

Featured on the night will be Brian O’Malley & Gary Moore’s Crossing Salween | Conor Ferguson’s Atlantic | Dylan Cotter’s Washed Up Love | Eoghan Nolan’s John Duffy’s Brother | Gavin Kelly’s Avatar Days | Johnny Kelly’s Shelly | Ken Wardrop’s The Herd | Mark Tuthill’s Venom | Michael Creagh’s The Crush | Nick Kelly’s Shoe and Last But Not Least | Steph Green’s New Boy

My work featured in LeCool Xmas exhibition

LeCool Dublin are teaming up with the Bernard Shaw for their second annual Xmas show.

Launching on December 8th with works from:

Ivor Noyek / Alan Clarke / nerosunero / Shane O Driscoll / Maser / JOR / Rich Gilligan / Des Moriarty / Isabel Reyes Feeney / ADW / Fink / seanandyvette / Solus / James Earley / Killian Dunne / Paddy Lynch / Thirty Three Trees / John Rooney / Phil Dunne / ...and MORE!

50% of all sales will go towards the Simon Community.

Honing my skills as an Art Director

I just completed the ICAD Upstarts programme in advertising. I have work and my portfolio on exhibition in South Studios as part of design week. The annual Upstarts programme consists of two sets of workshops, one in advertising and one in design. The 24 successful applicants (12 per workshop) are selected from a national submission and awarded the opportunity to work with 6 of the top advertising agencies / design studios over a period of 6 weeks.

"For The Love Of Progress"

Calling all creatives! New "For The Love Of" brief, "For The Love Of Progress", on our website here.

FTLO is a platform for Irish creativity. We showcase Irish creatives' work in one space. We believe collaboration is essential and that the creative community should be working as one to make great work in every discipline.

Innovation, accessibility and public involvement are necessary for great work.

FTLO has featured at Offset, Electric Picnic, PhotoIreland Festival, Castlepalooza and spoken at Pecha Kucha and Candy's SweetTalk.