about this site and its author:

This section of fragilehooligan.com is intended to archive - in the simplest and least time consuming way - the work of feargal halligan, AKA fragilehooligan.

As of 05.2008 the site reaches a fourth revision.

Now I'm really sorry, but most of this revision has involved dumping large jpegs into the newer pages and dropping youtube video on top of that. If you have a slow connection, I apologise but this is a rich media portfolio, in fairness very little of this content was ever for online delivery. So sorry about that.

As has been already mentioned, it's a bare bones HTML site supported by a loose table structure, a selection of navigational gifs, and a catalogue of calendar based project pages

Of course, the main practical reason for this is to make potential employers aware of my work history: however, it has to be said that since college, almost twelve years ago, this is the first concerted portfolio I've put together: and it's quite a satisfying piece of work to do: hence the work-in-progress early years - that stuff isn't easy to find.

Other than that, I'm not sure what else might need explaining about this archive: please navigate at will and if you've got nice things to say... well use the contact section ;-)

a brief history:

Feargal Halligan is a very experienced (14+years), multi-disciplined graphic designer with experience across video, web, print, interface design and installation engineering as a designer, project manager and materials coordinator.

Originally trained as a print / viscom designer, he has sought diverse experience in a wide range of visual communications, managing a broad variety of brands and products across an equally broad variety of media:

print (illustration, layout, typography, copywriting, campaign management)

web (project management, layout, information/interface design, basic html/css/flash, intranet/extranet/bespoke apps),

video (credit sequences for film and TV, short animations on DVD, video games and interative installations, character design, scriptwriting)

event (lighting design, stage management, projection design, coordination)

installation (touchscreen design, game design, project coordination, scriptwriting)

...it's a long and diverse career, and only now is he learning to talk about himself in the second person ;-)

He is fluent in the following apps: After Effects, Photoshop/imageready, Illustrator, Freehand, InDesign, Quark, and various editors and authoring software associated with video, web and print production

He is competent in the following apps: Flash, Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Acrobat, iLife '06 and a variety of utilities.

He is competent in: Mac (OS 8.0 - 10.5 leopard) and Windows (95/97/2000/XP) with limited Linux experience.

He currently runs his own small production suite in dun laoghaire producing everything from video projections / digital signage to fine art prints.