Hello!
I’m Gary Kelly, an award-winning art director and graphic designer with over two decades of experience. I design brands, identities and visual worlds, with a focus on arts, culture and entertainment.
Graphic design was pretty much on the cards for me from an early age. My dad was a designer, and I spent countless hours sketching at his sticky, spray-mount-coated drawing boards, surrounded by coffee stains, cigarette ash, scalpel-cut images from Tony Stone stock books, Letraset sheets and tracing paper.
Much of my career was spent working alongside Steve Averill and Shaughn McGrath at Four5Oneº Creative, the team behind every U2 album cover since 1976. That experience still shapes the way I work today.
I also write and produce music for Molybaron, the band I founded and front, signed to Inside Out (Sony Music). We’ve played some of Europe’s biggest festivals, including Hellfest, Graspop and Rock Werchter, and venues such as the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London and Élysée Montmartre in Paris.
Working as both artist and designer means I understand the process from both sides. That changes how I approach every brief.
Credits include U2, HarperCollins, Sony Music, Columbia Records, Universal, BMG, The Script, Leonard Cohen, Genesis, Wim Wenders, Curzon Cinema, The Abbey Theatre and more.
If you have a project in mind, let’s have a chat!