The afterlife...

Just blogged about these here you won't believe the story behind these beautiful images.

I "Heart" Tom Gauld

Found this recently...Illustrator Tom Gauld teams up with Diet Coke for US "Heart" month.
tomgauld.com

Antartica never looked so good in plastic...

Hi all, plastic bags have never looked so good! These are photographs taken by architect Francois Delfosse using layers of plastic sheeting. More images up on my blog.

Alice in Wonderland

Hi All, posted on this over on my blog but said I'd leave a few images here as well, you might appreciate them. Can't wait for the film, love Tim Burtons stuff.

Helena

Beata Boucht Swedish illustrator

Here's an image from Swedish illustrator Beata Boucht. Have loaded more of her stuff onto my blog

Meet the Woods...

Working on these characters for a project, so far I have Annabelle and Beatrice but I'm busy drawing their family don't want them to be orphans, it just wouldn't be fair!

Hello All, I'm looking for votes for "A Load of Rubbish"!

Hi all, as some of you already know, I have written a childrens book called "A Load of Rubbish"and without a clue what to do with it, I loaded it onto a site called Authonomy.com run by the publishers Harper Collins. It is a site to spot new unpublished talent. Anyway the book flew up the charts and is now no.7 out of over 6000 books. The top 5 at the end of each month are put forward for consideration to editors in Harper Collins UK and US. It's not a definite towards publication but it's a good step in the right direction.

I have uploaded the synopsis and voting instructions onto my blog in an effort to entice votes. Please have a read and if you have time pass on a vote.

The sketches above are of some of the characters in my story.

Kells Comedy Festival

Here's some of the characters and the logo I created for the Kells Comedy Festival. I did the full branding for the festival last year, the design can be seen on my website helddesign.ie (which by the way is under going a redesign, navigation is very bad so any suggestions appreciated!)

Anyway last year was all about Vikings, so this year I chose the book of Kells as my inspiration. Who knew there were so many characters inside it. Above are my favourites but there are loads more, lots of dragons for some reason although I have heard Kells is full of them! The full poster is on my blog helddesign.blogspot.com

Hello...

Hi All,

Just joined your network and wanted to say "Hi". I'm a graphic designer based in Kilkenny, you can see what I do on my site helddesign.ie or through my own blog. Now I've introduced myself, I'm off to think of something creative to WOW you all with!!

Helena