Skillswitch is an event-organising app that gives people within a community the resources and tools to organise their own arts, crafts, and creative events. The core concept of the app is inclusivity, diversity, and accessibility, with events ranging from large, high-budget gatherings to small local meet-ups organised in someone’s home. The app provides users with a platform to advertise events and search for activities both in their local area and across Ireland. It also offers assets, templates, and printable resources that can be downloaded and used for promotion and during events.

The app is called Skillswitch because it centres around the idea of users exchanging skills through organised events. The platform encourages stronger community connections while providing affordable and accessible ways to learn new skills, with the exchange being knowledge for knowledge.

Users can select which skills they are confident in and which skills they are interested in learning. The app then recommends events related to these skills, represented through custom icons. Users can update their skills at any time and search for events featuring the skills they would like to learn.

The logo and icons were created using lino-cut and printmaking techniques to give the app a handcrafted, textured appearance. This visual style communicates that the platform is for people of all skill levels, with a focus on learning new things, connecting with others, and organising activities within local communities.

This project is an awareness campaign highlighting the harmful wall that has been built in recent years along the Poland–Belarus border and its negative effects on the ecosystem of the Białowieża Forest. Through this campaign, I used illustration to portray the forest as a beautiful and valuable natural environment, while presenting the wall as something intrusive that does not belong within it. The colour black was used for the wall to create contrast between the bright forest imagery and a sense of dread and negativity, without making the visuals overly dark.

Bold typography was used to stand out against the illustrative background, with the phrase ‘under threat’ enlarged to create a stronger sense of urgency. For the main adshel and social media posts, I chose the wording ‘Europe’s last ancient forest’ rather than simply ‘Białowieża Forest’ to provide viewers with context about why the forest is so unique and important. Even many young Polish adults are unaware of the forest and the environmental issues currently affecting it.

The animal featured in the campaign imagery is the European bison. While it is not the only endangered species living within the forest, Białowieża is particularly known for its bison population, and the habitat is especially important for their survival.