Aoife O'Doherty
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Aoife O'Doherty

DesignerLondon, United Kingdom
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Aoife O'Doherty

DesignerLondon, United Kingdom
About me
Design graduate adopting a user-led approach to problem solve, working collaboratively and applying design to create positive change. I often organise, curate and feature in independent exhibitions. I enjoy working with people and within teams working as a project manager and art director in projects.
Projects
  • Women in Weighlifting
    Women in WeighliftingDigital campaign encouraging women into the stigmatised sport of weightlifting. A typeface is formed from the sports dynamic movements, and is applied across digital platforms and into a type specimen publication. The project aims to show the power and sense of achievement women can gain from the sport, changing stigma and breaking barriers.
  • Lemons for Refugees
    Lemons for RefugeesFor refugees, a lemon is a vital tool to aid seasickness on a journey to asylum. Hundres of lemons were handed out to London commuters, as a symbol for safe passage, in exchange for signatures asking the government to take more action. Winner of Creative Conscience Gold Award
  • Protest Press
    Protest PressCollective workshop encouraging expression of voice and challenging the means of protest. Protest Press provides the methods, tools and space to actively be part of topical conversation and social change. We have run workshops at Somerset House, Science Gallery, collaborated with leading designer Anthony Burrill, and be featured in exhibitions. Creative Conscience 2018 Award Winners. @protestpress
  • Brexit
    BrexitArt direction project visualising Brexit through food. This monthly documentation explores the political topic, challenging understanding and meaning. From David Cameron as a shriveled piece of basil, to immigration as melting peas. View all images on website
  • Borders
    BordersArt directed project visually exploring the image of borders based on three perspectives : Trump / Refugee crisis / Brexit Outcomes are seen in a publication, designed to be viewed at diffrent angles and interpretated together once folded out.
  • On Tyranny
    On TyrannyLive poster brief for new Penguin book release 'On Tyranny' by Timothy Synder. Visual depiction of political power and dominance across the large poster. Exhibited in Shoreditch, and next on display in America. Featured on: ItsNiceThat The Guardian
Projects credited in
  • On Tyranny
    On TyrannyTo celebrate the release of Timothy Sydner's new book, ‘On Tyranny’, published by Vintage (Random House/Penguin) in March 2015, a series of twenty posters depict each chapter on the book. The flyposted installation was featured on Leonard Street, East London, communicating Sydner's 20 lessons for the twentieth century. The posters reveal the entire text of the book, chronologically from chapter to chapter, all tied together with a consistent colour scheme of red, black and white. Myself and thre
Work history
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    Creative DesignerLondon Design Festival
    London, United KingdomFreelance
    Manufactory (2017) LDF Guilt-Free (2018)
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    Creative InternAnomaly
     - London, United KingdomInternship
    Working on Gordon's Gin and Budweiser campaigns for the O2.
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Skills
  • Adobe
  • Digital Print
  • Books
  • Social Change
  • Curating
  • Copywiting
  • Creative Workshops
  • Education Projects
  • Project Management
Education
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    BA Graphic DesignKingston School of Art & Design
    London, United Kingdom
    First Class Hons
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    Art and Design FoundationKingston University
     - Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
    Award: Distinction
Awards
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    Creative Conscience Gold AwardCreative Conscience
    Winner of Creative Conscience Gold Award for a project helping refugees through the use of lemons.