Designer

For the past five years I’ve worked at bookassist, a hotel technology company based in Dublin and Madrid. While there I designed, coded and delivered websites for dozens of hotels across Ireland and Europe. You can find a selection of the sites I’ve worked on below.

a picture of Pierce Gleeson I have recently moved to freelance, so please contact me if you would like to talk about anything I might be able to help you with.

Responsive Design Web Typography HTML(5)/CSS(3) jQuery Expressionengine PHP Grid Systems

Recent (non-hotel!) Sites

Hotel Sites Designed & Built

Hotel Sites Designed

Hotel Sites Built

writer

I am a short story writer, and have been publishing pieces online at Distorte.com for more than seven years. You can find a selection of stories from that website below.

a picture of Pierce Gleeson For the last two years (2011 & 2012) I have participated in Januariad, during which I outputted one short story for every weekday in January. That work has been archived here. In 2011 I published two short stories in defunct Dublin culture magazine The Social.

Recently I have begun a publishing concern with Helene Pertl called HP & Gleeson. Hand-screenprinted objects containing my writing are beginning to appear for sale at that location, beginning with a childrens’ book, Penguin Pie, and much more to follow soon.

Recent Stories

  • Evidence of Giants The two boys are grinning hugely. The one on the left holds his hands out towards his companion, like a quiz show model presenting a prize. The boy on the right stands bow-legged, his arms wrapped around a boulder sized object which, on close inspection, appears to be a human milk tooth of gigantic proportions.
  • The Axe Man Nobody expects a skinny, nerdy-looking database administrator to blog about axes, but there are two things to explain regarding this. The first is that only skinny, nerdy-looking database administrators blog about anything, and the second is that those burly woodsmen you think would be axe experts don’t actually use axes anymore. Nobody uses axes anymore.
  • Oliver Objects ‘But consider this, Oliver. What if the unexpected twist is that the answer to the question neither explains the question nor subverts our expectations about the question? What if the twist is that there is no twist? That may be what your brother has tapped into here. We all laughed, didn’t we?’
    ‘You did laugh,’ said Oliver, absent-mindedly chewing on a stick of carrot.
  • The Cartographer on the Bus ‘Well he said that a cartographer was concerned with the creation of accurate models of the world and/or universe. That I was something more like an illustrator or simply a “mapmaker” or some other lesser thing.’

Januariad

HP & Gleeson Printed Works

our first book
a picture of Pierce Gleeson