A very Crafty Christmas

The cards - paper cut from various cards and patterned papers.

The envelopes - made of old magazines and relevant to the recipients present/interests etc.

The present - two large jars full of various herbal teas hand wrapped and colour coded in mini bags and tissue paper with a card label to help decipher the different flavours.

Eco Cabs - Kerry Vs. Dublin All-Ireland

I worked on these a while back with Aisling and Dee at Huguenot. Pretty cool to actually see them in use.

Rubay : A Study

Hup the mighty Mcs!

Exciting news for some members of my family this week, my little sister and Dad both submitted photographs to the Science Snaps portion of Science Week Ireland 2011 on the theme "The Chemistry of Life". My Dad came second in the general public division with one photo and highly commended with another while my sister won the senior secondary school division outright. Their photos appeared in yesterday's Science Monthly supplement of the Irish Times which was distributed to schools across the country. Well done, hup the mighty Mcs!!!

"Love is Sweet" by my legendary little sister.
This couple are on a "sciencey" dinner date and consuming models of glucose molecules as most of the energy for life comes from metabolising glucose(I'm acting at this waitress in this shot!)

"The Chemical Origin of Life" by my hero of a Dad.
Some scientists propose the chemical origin of life might be RNA as RNA could potentially catalyse reactions and copy itself (RNA world hypothesis, Wikipedia). RNA is made from chains of the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine and uracil. The bases are represented here as the four different colours mixing together in a primordial soup and beginning to form a chain.

Around the World, Around the World.

This is a piece I worked on last week on the theme of Irish emigration. It is a comment on the scattering of the Irish far and wide and how their influence permeates each external country's culture to some extent. This took a loooooong time, mainly due to the amount of research required. The background is various travel paraphernalia, such as passports, letters and so on, layered over imagery of emigrants. The countries themselves are cut out patterned card and hand drawn on each country is the wildlife / musical instrument / traditions etc associated with each one. A shamrock has also managed to make it's way into each country, with the travel lines showing the route taken from Ireland to each country. So now. 

Nom nom nom Chocolate

Here's a project I worked on a while back which was super awesome fun. The brief was to brand a luxury chocolate company who wanted to be seen as "alchemists" of chocolate. A concept was developed emphasising the role of Botanikoko as pioneering “alchemists” using the the original historical “alchemists” of chocolate – the Mayans and the Aztecs – as inspiration. The illustrations were to be used as part of an animation on the brand's website, which can be seen on my site.

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