This document contains a summary of graphic design projects by Niamh Boland, including maps and flyers she created of her city in the Netherlands as well as poster, website, magazine, album cover, and character designs. Her work shows experience with Adobe software like Photoshop and Illustrator. She is highly motivated to create work that clients are proud to be associated with.

2. About Me
I am a Graphic Design graduate from Galway,
Ireland living in The Netherlands. I have a lot of
experience in using the Adobe Suite, particularly
Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. I am very
adaptable and strongly motivated to create
something that my clients can be proud to be
associated with.
Niamh Boland

3. Map & Flyer
I created this project in my first few
weeks in The Netherlands, I wanted
to become familiar with the city
while also creating something that
other students could benefit from.
I cycled around the city taking
polaroid photos to pin to the map
which I drew on illustrator. I felt like
something was missing so I added
the leaflet with recommendations of
places around the city.

4. Poster Project
For this project I was tasked with
designing a poster of my vision of the
future using basic shapes only.
I went with the idea of a distant planet
landscape, perhaps what we will see out
our windows in hundreds of years.
I tried many colour schemes but chose
the above for my final piece.

5. Hotel Project
For this project we had to come up with
an idea for a hotel in Ireland, design the
logo and create an Instagram for it.
Once all that was done we had to design
a website wireframe for desktop and
mobile.

6. Hotel Project
The website wireframes are compatible with
both desktop (above) and mobile (Right)

7. Caricatures
I initially designed these pop culture
caricatures to be sold as prints at
conventions back in Ireland but I
didn’t make it to a con with them as
I was very busy with college at the
time.

8. Book Cover
This was a college project where we were
required to design a book jacket for a
recipe book.
I took the photos myself and even had to
edit the pie to look more appealing as it
had a large crack in the crust.

9. Look! This might
help us if we
want to find the
monkeys!
Quick! Solve it, we
might be close!
Solve the crossword on the next page and use the
letters in the colored boxes to spell out where the
monkeys have taken the cereal!
1. The worlds largest rodent
2. A big cat with stripes
3. A long jungle plant that
often hangs from trees
7. The gorilla is the worlds
largest __________
6.
2.
4.7.
1.
8.
3.
5.
4. A colourful bird with a big
beak
5. A type of Parrot: The
Scarlet _________
6. What sort of animal is an
anaconda
8. Colour of leaves
Across Down
Kids Magazine
This was a project for Ottiya, an online
children’s education platform. I was
part of the team that designed this
magazine.
I was the Graphic Designer as well as
puzzle creator and educational content
writer. I also did the animal illustrations
for the magazine. The full magazine
should be on Ottiya’s website by July.

10. Lets Meet The Worlds
Biggest Rodent!
The Capybara
Imagine an animal that looks like a guinea pig, but is the size of a
dog. Well that’s pretty close to what a capybara is. The capybara
is the worlds largest rodent growing to between 50 and 60 cm tall
and can live for up to 7 years.
The capybara is a semi-aquatic rodent found in the jungles of
South America, often next to bodies of water. They are herbivores
and mosty eat grass, water plants and other vegetation.
I’m not your
average rodent!
Unfortunately for the poor capybara they are a favorite snack
to some of the rainforests scariest predators such as jaguars
and anacondas. The quick and crafty capybara is infact great at
swimming so it often rushes into water for safety. They can stay
submerged underwater for up to 5 minutes to escape predators!
Capybaras are social animals that prefer to live in a group, In fact
they have been known to live in groups of up to 100, thats a lot of
capybaras!
Jungle MazeWhile searching for the cave, Sally and
Sam have gotten separated...
Help Sally reach Sam by guiding her
through the maze!
Color The Animals From The
Amazon Rainforest
The following animals are found in
The Amazon Rainforest, Color them in!
Tapir
Toucan
What Rainforest
animal is your
favourite?
Capybara
Giant Anteater
Jaguar
Kids Magazine

11. Album Covers
I designed these album covers using
open source photographs which I
then edited in photoshop.

12. Character Design
I designed this character ad storyboard for
college. I hand drew the storyboard.
The concept is a samurai gets transported to
modern day Tokyo and has to learn to adapt.

13. Other Projects
Here are some other college and personal
projects that I have worked on
I designed these cats as characters
for a comic but I didn’t write it in
the end. It was to follow the funny
misadventures of four cats living
together. I turned them into stickers
instead.
I screen printed the lines of these cards
then coloured them with watercolour.
The inspiration was Japanese folklore