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FoE Oxfam Cards

December 3, 2012 in Climate Activism, Design

I was recently tasked by Quit Coal with coming up with some kind of certificate for people who buy a Friends of the Earth membership, such that we could try to sell them as Christmas/Holidays gifts and raise funds.

The idea is much like what Oxfam does, selling cards that signify a donation that has gone towards, say, a goat for a family in the developing world, etc.

An example of an Oxfam gift card

So anyway i’ve just completely ripped off the Oxfam shtick, but put it in the context of what Quit Coal and FoE do. Here’s what i’ve come up with:

A bit cheeky perhaps, but we’re 80% sure Oxfam will not sue…

 

Wrote You A Melody/Young Man’s Pride Double A Side

July 16, 2012 in Design

Been super busy recently working on a new release for the band. I’ve written, recorded, and mixed the tracks myself and just last week had them professionally mastered and they’re sounding sweet. Here’s a preview of the artwork. The concept and colour scheme came to me in a bit of a rush on a train, and then it took a while to get it looking right, but I think it came up OK. I was thinking a lot about the Stone Roses at the time, which the font may reflect. Three Lions is also quite a British symbol…

Quitcoalapalooza!

July 16, 2012 in Design

I also recently spent a lot of time putting together a fundraiser gig for Quit Coal called Quitcoalapalooza and a lot of time making this poster for it. Seriously, this took for freaking ever. But I larned a fair bit about illustrator in the process, and made a cool poster and had had a cool night and made about $1500 for my trouble, so it was well worth it. Next time I think we’ll have to do it in summer though, it ended up being the coldest most miserable night of the year, and we probably would have made twice as much on a warmer eve. Ah well, you gotta do something throughout the winter months, and who could be arsed organizing a rally that gets rained out? Not me!

New (Rejected) WGS Logo

February 4, 2012 in Design | No comments

I threw this logo together yesterday as I’m getting a bit jack of the old one. The lads aren’t that into it so we probably won’t be using it. but I thought I’d chuck it up here anyway. It’s got a Croat coat of arms for Liam, a crucifix for Jard (who wears one despite not being a practicing Christian in any sense), an Eagle from the ‘Acott family crest’ for Steve and a shamrock for my Irish bones.

Stop HRL Rally Poster

February 2, 2012 in Climate Activism, Design | No comments

This is a poster I designed for Quit Coal‘s February 1 Rally to stop HRL.

Quit Coal Logo & Website

January 5, 2012 in Climate Activism, Design | No comments

So I haven’t updated paulconnor.org in ages. I’ve been pretty busy with my climate group, which in the past few months have rebranded ourselves with a new name ‘Quit Coal’. Here’s the logo I’ve designed for us:

And here is the Quit Coal website. which i’ve spent countless hours designing and setting up using a pretty cool wordpress theme called ‘Corona’.

Nobody’s Got A Gun To Your Head Artwork

September 20, 2011 in Design | No comments

This is the artwork for Wildcat General Strike‘s debut CD ‘Nobody’s Got A Gun To Your Head’. The CD’s finally showed up today. We are pretty happy with it. The cover image came from a NY artist named Shianne Rosenberg, who was kind enough to let us use it. The rest of the design was a team effort by me and Jarred, and our friend Shannon took the sleeve photo.

Wildcat General Strike Logo

September 5, 2011 in Design | No comments

I recently watched Dig! on Youtube. I reckon you can probably tell. This was the design the band ended up settling on.