Eoghan McMahon
Graphic Designer from Dublin, currently
residing in London, with a background
in Graphic and Product
Design. My approach
and purpose in design is to challenge
our preconceptions to craft projects
that are not only playful and memorable
but also functional in their essence.
Currently working at Pentagram.
Previously at So Studio,
Joanne Byrne and Red&Grey
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Brand Identity - Lenus
Pentagram was approached to help create
a total visual rebrand, including the tone
of voice and UX/UI design, to help the brand
in its mission to become the leading online
fitness coaching platform.
As well as looking different, the new Lenus
brand had to encompass a much wider range
of topics such as nutrition, mental and physical
health and the benefits of a healthy lifestyle,
reflecting its holistic approach. Lenus’ offer
extends way beyond purely its digital product,
with human relationships and experiences sitting
at the heart of its business model.
Pentagram’s challenge was to create a brand
that would stand out in a crowded and fast-
paced digital health and wellbeing space,
while being careful not to appear too masculineor
narrow in its execution. Art direction needed
to be professional, holistic and energetic,
avoiding any imagery that was too cliched
or corporate.
The new Lenus symbol captures the energy
and movement while also creating a subtle ‘L’
shaped form and sits harmoniously alongsidethe reimagined and re-drawn wordmark.
It was important for the typography to work
across all applications and have a quietly
professional and authoritative tone. Paired with
rich lifestyle-inspired photography which places
people at its very heart, it communicates the
stories and motivations behind the Lenus brand.
Brand Identity - Seekout
SeekOut approached Pentagram to create
a brand that would appeal to businesses
and the talent seekers within them. Although
powered by cutting-edge technology, the
new brand identity needed to feel deeply
human-centric and display empathy, warmth
and emotional intelligence. A key challenge
was to communicate complex and abstract
themes without falling into the established
vernacular of nodes or data.
The SeekOut logo uses chevrons to contain
the word ‘out’ which is a subtle nod to coding
language. The brackets create a flexible space
in which the brand can extend beyond SeekOut
and into specific product brands and offers.
Colour is used to differentiate the name
and help readability and plays a key role
in creating a warm, welcoming style, while
typograph is clean, modern and friendly
with @grillitype’s GT Alpina used for headings.
Photography is warm, human-centric and
showcases the diversity and personalities
of the people at the heart of Seekout’s
products. A library of bespoke icons was
also developed, which are used at smaller
scales where illustration or photography
would become illegible. A set of colourful
illustrations was also commissioned, adding
a playful and human touch to SeekOut’s
brand language.
Campaign - Channel 5
Working alongside the Channel 5 creative
team, Angus and team created a highly
flexible modular system inspired by the
Channel 5 logo. This creates a visual link,
while still maintaining strict usage rules
independent of particular content.
Careful consideration was given to taking
the campaign into the digital environment
through motion, maintaining the Channel’s
strong visual style but providing additional
flexibility to showcase the content.
The biggest challenge was unifying the
system across a wide range of scales,
formats and media types, and the key
was to ensure consistency while providing
equal visual prominence for each individual
show. Another challenge was adapting the
campaign for future shows, by creating
a series of templates that the Channel 5
team could use confidently and consistently.
The team explored a number of styles and
colours before creating the final design
solution, which keeps a clear and deliberate
visual connection with the existing on-air
channel identity. Taking the static campaign
into motion for social media and digital
applications illustrates the flexibility
of the modular system.
Places for London
Places for London will be providing homes,
workspaces, retail and cultural spaces for
Londoners, as well as working to improve
the existing infrastructure within its
wide-ranging portfolio.
The brief was to create a strong brand identity
that reflected its position as a standalone
commercial enterprise while demonstrating
its relationship to TfL. It needed to be highly
accessible, inclusive and work alongside
the brands of partners TfL, @mayorofldn
and others.
Playing on the iconic London Underground
announcement, the core strategic idea behind
Places for London is ‘Minding London’s Gaps’, representing the physical spaces and gaps
in which the business operates. Its 2-D
representation of a 3-D space provides
flexibility, as well as a consistent and highly
ownable visual style.
The logo is formed by a 3-D frame and the
type is set in Johnston, TfL’s corporate font
which is synonymous with the London Underground.
The 45° angle of the frame is also reflected
in the typeface, in a subtle graphic link to
the parent brand.
The team developed a graphic system inspired
by the logo; this was used to inform other
elements such as a custom iconography suite,
information graphics and signage. It creates
a distinct visual connection but still stands
out visually in the often safe and restrictive
world of public and governmental brand identities.
Throughout the project, Pentagram and Places
for London worked side-by-side to ensure
the wider internal and stakeholder teams
were brought along on the journey.
The result is a brand identity that provides
flexibility, has a consistent and highly ownable
visual style and will serve the business
for years to come.
Product Design - Chubb
Creating a sense of companionship,
through playful interactions.
My objective for this project was to
help reduce stress and loneliness
through untraditional and playful
Interactions with your home-ware.
By creating an inclusive personal
table that has animal and human
like traits, a sense of companionship
and humour is encouraged. This
gives the user a window of humoured
distraction when in stressful or
lonely scenarios.
Chubb was shortlisted at the
Irish Design Awards (IDI)
2019 furniture category.
My solo graduate project from NCAD,
National College of Art & Design