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Ruairi Walsh 

BA [Hons] Visual Communication Design

Hey, I’m Ruairi. I love to create visual identity systems and bring identities and concepts to life through motion. By bridging these two design disciplines, I hope to create a strong sense of identity, personality and storytelling in every project I work on. I take a considered view of the challenges and opportunities of every brief, and pride myself in creating unique, engaging and surprising design solutions. Other than working on design and motion, I have a keen interest in illustration and like to make my own comics in my spare time.

gloom is our future forecast if we continue to ignore climate change and just keep plodding along.
gloom confronts the public with a weather forecast from the year 2063 on public advertising screens.
The forecasts – boiling, drowning, melting. Nothing to worry about. Sound design: Adam Butler
The campaign aims to highlight and satirise our passive, unthinking behaviour when it comes to climate change.
It does this through a guerilla campaign of climate 'crime scene' tape at places like petrol pumps, airport terminals and coastal areas.
Poster campaign
Desktop and mobile websites. The website includes informational content about the campaign, a sign-up to receive an activist pack and a journal section, where there is a curated selection of articles about climate change.
gloom desktop website walkthrough
Activist pack – includes rolls of climate crime scene tape, USB figurine, sticker pack and gloom journal.
Climate crime scene tape
gloom journal – cover and sample spreads.
One of many 3D illustrations made for the gloom website / project.
gloom.

gloom is a weather forecast from the future, showing what our future forecast will look like if we continue to muddle through life, ignoring the climate crisis.

The gloom campaign spans environmental, packaging and digital outputs. The campaign aims to provoke thought, amuse, and possibly annoy people with the hope of making them re-consider their passivity in the face of the ongoing climate change crisis, and become actively engaged with the many ways they can help at a larger scale.


Terror and Trauma: Contemporary horror comics as a medium to explore personal and systemic trauma

The aim of my thesis is to explore how contemporary horror comics can serve as a unique and effective medium in which to explore and bear witness to trauma; personal, historical, and systemic. My thesis analyses Charles Burns' "Black Hole" and Emil Ferris' "My Favorite Thing is Monsters" as exemplars of contemporary horror comics exploration of such traumas. The theoretical underpinning of my thesis spans the fields of trauma studies, horror and comics studies.

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