Work has started on design concepts for the Memories book. Now we have a few stories complete we have made a start on laying out the copy and putting our ideas to paper. Here a few mockup renders to wet your appetite.
Sometimes on creative projects, progress rests not only with actually having done some work but with getting decisions made. There’s also a lot to be said for knowing you’re on the same wavelength as the other people you’re working with. As a collaboration, Memories is a bit like that. None of us had ever met [...]
This morning I noticed a Twitter campaign to keep cancer up amongst the trending topics on the site. For non-tweeters, if you add a # to your Twitter post, it indicates that you’re using a keyword you want to highlight in your post. If enough people are posting messages about cancer and they include the phrase [...]
<Gasp> Thanks for that posting, Rishi. Don’t worry we know that you’re playing a big part in the Memories project, and it’s all coming along nicely. On the copy side things are ticking over, to an extent. Five of the twelve stories are over to Antony now, and he’s exploring layout options. We’ve had a [...]
A part of doing this blog, at least from a DAHRA (Designers Against Human Rights Abuse) point of view, and this project was to bring a level of transparency to how we operate, what goes into creating a project and how we take something through from concept to realisation. Ultimately, we are tackling an extremely [...]
For a while we had planned to interview my friend Tom Preston for the section of Memories where we talk to survivors. He’s an old buddy of mine back in Canada and he discovered he had leukemia when he went to give blood at the age of 18. I was with him at the time [...]
As the project goes on, we are picking up all kinds of pieces of information. Cancer is big business, both in medicine and in the charity sector. We’ve heard good and bad stories about treatment, and about the charities who are raising money to fight cancer. Wendy Nichols, one of the people who is appearing [...]
We’re glad to announce that ‘Memories’ received a mention in a recent article on Eye Blog. To read the full article please visit: http://blog.eyemagazine.com/?p=304