Billy Mawhinney

Mr William J P Mawhinney: Mr Nice Guy
BA Hons Graphic Design, 1987 (when I was born)

This is the name of the interesting subject Me and my group (Jonathan Fleck and Stephen McCartney) have been given to study, photograph, write and fully design an article on.

His website is as follows: www.billymawhinney.com

This man has pretty much done it all in the world of Advertising, working as creative director for world famous companies mainly Leo Burnett Ltd and JWT and creating advertising campaigns for such prestigious brands as Levi, Audi, Jaguar, Rover, Kit Kat, Liberty's, Ford, Barnardo’s and the Independent.

His main role in his career which has spanned for just over 30 years has been in the creative directors role in the companies he has worked for. He has won numerous awards such as the Irish Film Festival Gold, D&AD pencils, Computer Animation Awards, British Television and IRL Radio Gold, Rank Cinema awards, three Film and TV Festival of New York awards, two Cannes Silver awards among many others.

His main drive is in T.V Advertising, but has also done a lot of print and graphic design work for his clients such as Smarties, Kit Kat and Asda.




The Design pieces above I thick are brilliant, with a really smart sense of humor which crosses over from his work in Advertising. This work for Smarties encapsulates the thoughtfulness for the audience that these directed at. The first two I got after a wee bit of thought which I thought was really fun, but I have to admit the third was the trickiest.

From researching this man I feel he is really interesting person in general, but from what I have learn't so far is his devotion to his work ethos, he likes a familiar surrounding, enjoys time with his family, enjoys change and is considered the Nicest guy in Advertising. The info I have about him might not be accurate, I need to do more research, but being from the same country as him and going to the University that he went to the University of Ulster I feel it might help in the communication element. Plus he is a Man United fan so that should stand me in good stead.

Mario Eskenazi. Diseno Grafico

The following company is an interesting company
(www.m-eskenazi.com) from Barcelona, Spain. I first came across them in a book called:

Graphics Explained: 7 Top Designers, 7 Briefs, 49 Solutions...
In Their Own Words


I really like the use of simplicity and color within there designs, They don't over load the pages with information and communicate directly with legible type and interesting imagery.

Unlike many less gifted designers of his generation elsewhere in Europe, Mario Eskenazi has resisted the lure of expanding his workshop into a bigger business. One of a group of internationally renowned designers who were born in Argentina but practiced in Spain and developed his company to have a reputation of simple, surprising, ideas based design solutions.

In 2000, Eskenazi was awarded Spain's National Design Prize. He has been a member of the AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) since 1997.