Atticus Graphic Design


Identity, Stationery, Newsletters and Web for this Recruitment Agency specialised in the Health Sector. All the design is very clean, minimalistic to give the overall brand a very clinical look.

Website for this progressive thinking accountancy firm based in Waterford. Their approach to web and functionality for clients was quite radical in comparison with what competitors offer. It was a nice challenge to get a good balance between edginess and corporate feel. The website is automaticaly linked to all the major social networks.

Atticus developed the identity for the Kilkenny Heritage Forum in 2009. The idea driving the concept was based in an analogy between Kilkenny Heritage and the Autumn Crocus: and endangered spices of Kilkenny Natural Heritage that normally grows close to Built Heritage areas and is particular to the area. The colour palette is taken from [...]

I normally run away from these jobs. One, they are normally quite small; two, there are too many people involved in the decision making (and some of them might show up at the very end of the process) that it is normally very difficult to enjoy them. But in this case I was given carte-blanche. [...]

New Ross based folk outfit Barrowside contacted us to design their materials for their new CD. They also wanted to use some of the materials developed for their live show. All their songs talk about the Irish emigrant. So we proposed an idea: using the CD folder as a piece of sequential art. We divided [...]

After finishing the KCAT10 Book, Atticus was approached to redesign their website. Their requirements included new CMS, integration of Social Networks, full accessibility… We opted for a self-hosted wordpress website where we built our skins on to. All the pictures are stored in Flickr where they can also use its social aspect. You can see [...]

Atticus was contracted to develop the Library Plan for the next five years. In the process, the Library Service decided to look also at their identity. The client wanted to be able to change library user’s perception about the services they provide. The client was particularly interested in communicating how their services are integrated in [...]

Atticus was asked to develop some collateral materials for the Jewelry and Ceramics courses. Continuing with the idea of transformation as a central theme, these new materials focus in creating a dramatic volume effect. By using a system of folds and die-cuts, unfolding the brochures create these pop-ups that transforms a 2D media into a [...]

KCAT was celebrating their 10th anniversary and wanted to mark the occasion with a book the reflected as much as possible, not only their history, but also their ethos. The book has over 200 hundred pages. KCAT has an extensive photographic record and we decided to make the most of it. We built a grid [...]

The Craft Council of Ireland (CCoI) required creating attractive materials for young people to engage into Crafts education. The main idea that served as a design concept was trasnformation: Craft as raw materials transformed to give them a new meaning. We created a system of inserts for each one of the disciplines. Typography and colour [...]