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Archive for April, 2010
Niel Quisaba – our man in Manila
Well, he’s not in Manila actually, but we are really pleased to have recruited the Philipino illustrator Niel Quisaba to the project. With a fascinating, playful style that includes freaky little characters, he does design work by day and creates his self-initiated illustrations in his spare time. His latest work is a design for a [...]
Ben the Illustrator
Ben O’Brien – aka Ben the Illustrator – has joined the Memories project. Back when I was editing Computer Arts he was one of our top contributors, thanks to his great imagination and digital skills. His work has gone from strength to strength, and he’s become one of the UK’s most popular, and friendliest, illustrators. [...]
Yulia Brodskaya joins the project
Craft-based creativity is so prominent in the design industry at the moment, bringing handmade richness to all kinds of projects. One illustrator using her craft skills to magnificent effect is Yulia Brodskaya. Some of her finest work uses a technique called quilling, whereby strips of paper are curled around a quill (or pen or pencil), [...]
Welcome Nikki Farquharson
Memories welcomes 24 year old London Based Freelancer Nikki on board the project. Nikki loves to work with colour, pattern, shapes, communication and typography and her clients have included Benefit Cosmetics, Computer Arts, Fujifilm, and Missbehave Magazine. We’re looking forward to seeing her contribution. Check out Nikki’s work here.
Presenting Chris Rubino.
Chris Rubino is a New York City-based artist/designer whose work has been exhibited in Europe, Japan, Hong Kong and the U.S. He recently has created designs & illustrations for such clients as The New York Times, Banana Republic & The NY Public Theater. He also runs a Brooklyn-based silk-screen studio named Studio18Hundred that makes limited [...]
Irena Zablotska – hello!
The latest artist to join in on the Memories project does so from all the way over in Lviv, a city in the Ukraine. Irena Zablotska has an unusual style that she describes as ‘elegant horror’, however many find there’s beauty and charm in her colourful, abstract images. The image you see above was used [...]
The making of George Webster Canvas by Steve Price
Memories: George Webster by Steve Price from Steve Price on Vimeo. Steve price has just posted an inspiring video on Vimeo about the making of his George Webster Canvas for Memories, inspired by Garrick’s story about his father. “Simply jumping on my mac to create something felt wrong. The prose that this piece will accompany [...]
Derek Bacon joins us
One of the UK’s top editorial illustrators, Derek Bacon, has joined the Memories project. With clients like The Economist, The Times, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal, many of Derek’s pieces cover current affairs and serious issues. You might have seen his most recent illustration for The Economist which looks at the main party [...]
The text is done!
Great news. Yesterday we subbed the final version of the final story to go into the Memories book. That makes for twelve ‘memories’, and the last piece was written by Gordon Kirk up in Scotland. His story tells the tale of how he discovered he had cancer six weeks after the birth of his daughter [...]
Bonjour, Jules Julien!
I swear, being part of the Memories project is a great experience. It’s not just working with talented creative people. It’s the fantastic response and touching stories we hear every day. For instance, last week I asked the French illustrator Julien Roure if he would participate and he said, ‘Oui!’ So I sent him Patrick [...]
New artist Vesna Pesic
Today we’re welcoming Vesna Pesic – AKA Becha – to the Memories project. She’s a young creative in Serbia who works in motion graphics by day, but in her spare time she creates montage pieces using… well, anything that catches her eye. It might include old newspapers, pieces of paper, rusty objects, grey photos and [...]
Gary Taxali illustrating for Memories
There’s been a lot of action behind the scenes in the last few days, so here’s the first bit of news… Back in February I was in Toronto and I had the pleasure of interviewing Gary Taxali, one of the top illustrators in North America and, indeed, the world. Last week I contacted Gary inviting [...]
hi… Ollie Munden
Memories Book Project Welcomes aboard the Ollie Munden, illustrator, muralist, tattoo designer and Senior designer at McFaul Studio, you can see more of his work here. Also you can check him out at the ‘Brighton Freakshow’ which is a carefully hand selected illustration show exhibiting some of Brighton’s finest image making talent. Appropriately housed in [...]