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Archive for January, 2010
Welcome Aboard, Patrick Niall
Troika Animation from Patrick Niall on Vimeo. Patrick Niall is an Interactive Media Designer from Leeds. He has plans to move to London, but is currently happy (and cold) studying Interactive Media Design at Northumbria University. He believes good things work better, thinks of usability as an Octupus on a pile of toys, loves the [...]
Memories x Mario Hugo
New York, New York! The city is doing us proud this week, with a third artist based in NYC joining the Memories project. At just 27, Mario Hugo is one of New York’s brightest creative stars. He illustrates using his incredible drawing skills, but also designs an array of websites for bands and fashion brands, [...]
Deanne Cheuk for Memories
Great news. The New York-based designer, illustrator and art director Deanne Cheuk has joined our growing list of star creatives. She’s going to create an image for Memories and we’re so pleased to have her on board. Deanne’s one of the most talented people I’ve ever come across. She illustrates in a light, refreshing and [...]
The Costa Book of the Year
This really resonates with what we’re doing on Memories. The Costa Book of the Year 2009 award went to the poet Christopher Reid for his book, A Scattering. It consists of a series of poems about losing his wife to cancer in 2005. I haven’t read the book but it sounds extremely emotional, particularly considering [...]
Welcome, Paul Skerm
Paul Skerm is an independent graphic designer specialising in creative solutions for brand identities, literature, packaging and exhibitions. Previously senior designer at Pentagram London and Lippa Pearce, he set up Paul Skerm Design in 2008, a creative multi-disciplined practice based in North London. www.paulskermdesign.com
Memories Welcomes Si Scott.
We are pleased to announce Si Scott as our latest illustrator. Si was one of the first artists to express an interest in the project in discussions at last years OFFF festival. If you were at OFFF some of you may have noted Si’s involvement with DAHRA’s next project during his speech. For those of [...]
Autumn Whitehurst joins Memories
I had a feeling that this would be an exciting week for Memories, and we’ve just had confirmation from Autumn Whitehurst she will be contributing an image for the book. Based in New York, we can safely say that Autumn has been one of the finest illustrators of the digital era. Her fantastically rendered style [...]
Plan-B Studio and 10.10.10
I got out and about last night, handing out a few Memories flyers at a networking event down here called Creative Bath. The concept of the book got a great reception from everyone I spoke to about it. It was just a shame I could only spend about an hour at the event. Today, I’d [...]
Welcome aboard, Andy Potts
We’ve been working hard recruiting creative talent to contribute to Memories, and our latest is Andy Potts. Andy’s a super illustrator who has dominated the scene for the last decade or so. He worked alongside the likes of Richard May as part of the Black Convoy collective, famous for their collaborative illustration commissions, but has [...]
Our latest illustrator is Michael Paul Young
For the last decade, Michael Paul Young has been doing some of the most inspiring design work out there. At the end of last year, he was telling me about some video graphics he was working on for U2, and his other clients include Coca-Cola, MTV, VH1 and Ford. But it hasn’t just been about [...]
Erica Burns, welcome to Memories
Strong line work and whimsical subjectmatter are trademarks of the illustration work of Erica Burns. And we’re really pleased to announce that her powerful and colourful style will be appearing in Memories. Erica has done some great work in the past – you may have seen her murals for Virgin Travel in railway stations. She’s [...]
McFaul Studio – new contributor!
McFaul Studio is a leader of contemporary creative Industries and seeks to explore and develop new directions and creative outlets utilizing the broad range of talent available within the studio, alongside the very best of industry-leading talent. By championing their renewed focus on craft and fine production, they seek to further blur the boundaries between [...]
Peter Jaworowski
Peter is the co-owner of the Warsaw-based creative studio, Ars Thanea, where he is also design director. Debut Art represents him worldwide and Mushroom in Spain. Offline, you can check out his work in regular print publications like /Computer Arts/, /idN/ and /Advanced Photoshop/ and as well as this he also writes for Reform & [...]
New Contributer – Antonio Carusone!
Born in Queens, NY into a colorful Italian family, Antonio Carusone has been in the creative arts since he was a child. His early artistic talents led him to NYC’s esteemed, High School of Art and Design, where he graduated in 1997. He then attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and The Academy of Art College [...]
Magomed Dovjenko
Magomed Dovjenko is a freelance Illustrator residing in Germany, who works mainly in design disciplines such as Illustration, Graphic Design and Art Direction. In the past years he has worked with many big names in the industry such as Nike ,Diesel, Adidas, Reebok, Jay-Z / Live Nation,Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy, K2, Ecko Unltd, Johnson & [...]
Saad Moosajee is on board!
Saad Moosajee is a 16 year old self taught illustrator living in Denver, Colorado. He specializes in Illustration & Art Direction and has experimented in Motion & Graphic Design. Apart from doing Art Saad is a pianist and an avid eater of noodles as well as a soccer fanatic. He has worked with many well-known [...]
We've bagged Bagshaw
Our latest catch on the illustration front is Tom Bagshaw, aka Mostly Wanted. Tom is an established illustator reprsented by CIA, with clients around the world from Brazil to Australia. He gets a lot of work in advertising and publishing but has been increasingly interested in producing fine art prints. Digital painting is his forte [...]
Zeegen will contribute
Happy New Year. The blog has been quiet over the holidays but we’ve continued quietly with things and on New Year’s Day I got an email from Lawrence Zeegen confirming that he’s going to create an image for the Memories book. I’ve known Lawrence for quite a few years now, and remember when he created [...]