Overview
A devoted pilgrim of design; coaching and teaching each annual generation of the infinitely curious in the trials of applied knowledge, rational reasoning, literary theory, and logical juncture. Instilling questions, fostering queries, and igniting the hunt for answers – to know the rules, understand them, and bend them to their will. Lauding the principles of Gestalt, Frame Theory, and Metaphor with cognitive imagination. Crafting arbiters of integrity and good taste; inspiring them to live and breathe a world of creativity – to leap into the rabbit hole and temper their subjective opinions with sharpened experience. Rousing critics; critical of what they outwardly observe and internally feel – curbing egos, marshalling morality, and instilling a spirit of creative inquiry.
Ciaran has a will to help; to cultivate good designers, both ethically and professionally – he is usually found preaching pedantic typographic theories and occasionally writing about himself in third person.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- MA Graphic Design (Arts University Bournemouth)
- BA (Hons) Graphic Design (Falmouth University)
- Foundation Diploma in Art, Design and Media (Arts University Bournemouth)
Teaching
From the vacuum release ‘phumfpt’ as you open a rigid box, to the rustle of tissue paper, the tear of an envelope, the feel of letter‐pressed stationery, the smell of a new book — great design engages beyond what we see to poke us in our gooey, emotional senses. Spinning rhetoric on the invisible elements of typographic style and visual metaphor, to design with meaning, emotion, clarity of thought; driven with purpose, and fueled by chocolate biscuits. Ciaran runs up and down the stairs of South House between MA Graphic Design and BA (Hons) Graphic Design courses wrangling students and letterforms alike in a bid to adhere to beautifully composed form and grid-structured layout.