Just a quick posting about Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres. All the money we raise will be going to this charity and the BBC has done a short documentary all about Maggie’s. Watch it and you can see why a creative project like Memories fits so well with the charity. Design and creativity play a roll in what they do. For instance, the centres where they offer advice, councelling, group meetings and other support to cancer sufferers, were designed by people such as Frank Gehry and Richard Rogers. That’s a fine thing in itself but the architecture, floorplans and interior decor are all designed to make people feel comfortable in a Maggie’s Centre, while the people there help them come to terms with the disease. Follow this link to watch the documentary and find out a lot more about Maggie’s.
Some of the best British graphic design work ever done is to be found on the covers of albums released by 4AD, created by Vaughan Oliver, along with Chris Bigg, and the photographers they collaborated with. The Pixies, The Cocteau Twins, The Breeders, Throwing Muses… those were the days. There was always texture in the work – emotion, soul, and a muted sense of unease too, perhaps.
Today Vaughan Oliver is teaching graphic design at Epsom and Kingston, and continues to take on projects now and again, like the fantastic luxury re-release of all the Pixies material that you can see here. Vaughan has also agreed to create an image for the Memories project, and for this we are extremely grateful. He’s busy with The Meteor, the beautiful but heartbreaking story of Ramona Horn’s fight against cancer. We can’t wait to see what he comes up with.
The image above is from the Pixies Minotaur box set Vaughan Oliver has done for Artist In Residence. The project includes contributions from his students at the University of the Creative Arts, Epsom. You can also check out an interview I did with Vaughan last summer, here. One of my favourite interviews.
All the proceeds of our book Memories will go to Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres, and the charity runs various other fundraising events that you just have to know about. On Friday it’s Love Maggie’s Day. The idea is to something you love for someone you love on Love Maggie’s Day. Get sponsorship for it, and you will raise money for the charity at the same time. Everybody wins. There isn’t much time but you can still take part. Or simply drop by your nearest Maggie’s Centre on Friday to see how you can contribute. There’s plenty more information here.
We hope the day goes fantastically well for everyone who takes part.
Glasgow born Klingatron began to teach himself how to create stencils as an art form in his final year of Art College around five years ago. It was the answer he was looking for as a young illustration student in order for him to find a way of working that gave him satisfaction he hungered for to capture detail in his art thus making him stand out with which was at the time a very basic knowledge and skill. He initially started to create stencils due to a continuous frustration with his style of work, which he felt would not stand up against the creations of his influences at the time.
Klingatron has since dedicated his attention in developing his style and technique with a blade ultimately producing very delicate and highly intricate stencils that are used only once causing each painting to be unique and completely individual.
Over time, Klingatron’s stencils have become more increasingly detailed meaning that the process takes hours upon hours (sometimes over 100) cutting paper in what he describes as a process that lets him go into a state of near meditation whilst he works for long periods at a time. All the materials he needs include the sheets of paper he cuts his stencils with using a scalpel blade, and of course spray cans for the application of paint is all he needs to create a painting.
His work has seen rapid progression and with this Klingatron has exhibited in many group show around Britain including three solo shows as well as displaying his paintings as far as Australia.
Today we are happy to announce that Sarah Jane Coleman, aka Inkymole Illustration, is working on an image for Memories, the creative book that we’re doing to fight cancer. Sarah is known around the industry for her expressive, type-based designs. She’s worked on book covers for the big publishers, created packaging and advertising for a range of products, and done illustrated headlines for all kinds of magazines. Last Autumn, her exhibition entitled Witches saw her collaborating with three other creatives, dealing with the spooky topic of witch trials, just in time for Halloween. Sarah (pictured above with some of her letterwork coming to life) is always doing amazing and fresh work, and we’re really pleased to have her on board. Have a look at her website here.
Our thanks go out this fine Saturday to Paul Holland, the Paris-based illustrator who agreed this week to create an image for Memories. He’s going to respond to the story in the book from Germany, about Ramona Horn. I love Paul’s bold images which include elements he photographs, as well as hand- and computer-drawn elements, and we can’t wait to see what he comes up with for the book. One interesting fact about Paul is that he used to be a tattoo artist. Have a look at his personal and client artwork here.
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