About Us
Maria O'Brien-Hynes is Creative Director with CREATIVE EDGE. She has a passion for creativity and innovative design. Her love of design stems back to when she spent long days creating cards, posters and drawing ballgowns as a young child.
Maria studied a BA in Interior Architecture in Sligo IT, graduating in 2008. She subsequently worked for a number of years in industry before studying a BA in Visual Communications in Athlone IT.
She has been working as a freelance designer for the last 8 years.
Maria lectured with the Dublin Institute of Design from 2011 - 2017. She started as a Junior Lecturer, moving on to a Senior Lecturer eventually becoming Head of Department for Graphic Design after spending a number of months as Programme Coordinator. She played a massive role in the Graphic Design Programme being validated for QQI in 2014. In 2015 she completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Third Level Teaching and Learning with DIT.
Testimonials
Maria designed our wedding invitations for us recently...absolutely fantastic!! She was an absolute pleasure to work with & was always at the end of the line if we wanted to adjust the invites with extra info..we told her what kind of interests we had and designed invitations that explained the both of us down to a tee!! She has great ideas and suggestions. So many people complimented our invitations..would highly recommend Maria for wedding stationary.. Excellent
Elaine Daly
Maria did a fantastic job designing and printing our wedding invites. We had very specific ideas about what we wanted and we found Maria great to work with because she made as many changes as we wanted until we were sure we were happy with the design. The quality of the printed invites did not disappoint either and we got lots of complements on them from our guests. I would highly recommend Maria to anyone thinking about ordering wedding stationary!
Aisling Vesey
Maria recently designed our wedding invitations. I outlined to Maria I would like whimsical autumn themed stationary and she delivered perfectly. Maria was so easy to communicate with and took each of our ideas on board and turned them into something fabulous. I would highly recommend Maria especially if you are looking for something unique and creative.
Dee Collins
I first met with Maria over the summer to talk about our wedding invitations and immediately knew she was the right person to work with. She had so many fantastic ideas and was interested in creating something special for us. I gave her a rough guide as to what we wanted and after that she presented us with some samples, we chose our favourite, added a few details we liked and that was it!Maria was so easy to communicate with and the whole process was incredibly simple. We're over the moon with the finished product and have already recommended her to loads of couples. Thanks a million, Maria!
Elaine & John
Maria created beautiful wedding invitations for us recently, she was so easy to work with and developing dual language invites was no issue! We were delighted Maria could source the gold envelopes we loved. Definitely would highly recommend creative edge wedding stationery. The whole process from start to finish was seamless and so fast.
Emer Nic Uidhir
"Beautiful wedding stationary, very reasonable and extremely easy to work with. Would recommend Maria to anyone looking for fab wedding stationary."
Sandra Sharry
"We would like to highly recommend Creative Edge design company for any branding or material to be designed. Posters, business cards and flyers were designed for a helpline as well as beer mats for support services. The design really stood out and Creative Edge were able to target the material to e.g. young people etc. "
Roscommon LEADER Partnership Company
"Maria carried out a rebrand of my company for me. There was quite a bit of work involved in rebranding but Maria was a dream to work with. She had a professional approach, was always open to ideas and the final solution was superb. I will definitely work with her again in the future."
John, Roscommon
"Creative Edge designed business cards, leaflets and posters and branding for my holistic business. I am extremely happy with the quality and creativity of the design and how fetching it is. They were professional and gave some great ideas. The material stands out and gets the message I want to the target audience."
Teresa O’Brien Body and Mind Coaching
"Maria was a pleasure to work with during her time in Triest Press Ltd. She always delivered high quality design work and worked to our clients needs and time frames. Maria has great attention to detail and a flair for graphic design. I would recommend Maria instantly for graphic design work, and can assure anyone that works with Maria will receive creative design work on time."
Martina Riddell, Triest Press Ltd.
"Maria worked on the redesign of an old farm house I purchased in 2007. Her design ideas and advice on interior finishes were invaluable. Her creative skills and commitment to detail transformed my 1880's farm house into a modern yet sympathetically restored home which I love. I can highly recommend Maria for her professionalism and creative flair."
Lilian Donnellan
"We were absolutely delighted with all our wedding stationary. Maria is so talented and a pleasure to deal with. Attention to detail is second to none. Truly Fabulous service!"
Meabh & Barry
"Maria, I want to thank you so much for designing our wedding invitations and RSVP cards. They captured exactly what we wanted, a fun and easy going invite. They were printed on really good quality paper and we got unbelievable feedback about them from our guests, they loved them! The whole process with you was really efficient and any question we had or change we wanted was made with such ease. Therefore, the final result was fantastic. I would highly recommend creative edge wedding stationary to all my friends and family in the future."
Edel & Padraig October 2014