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Archive for May, 2010
Laura Carlin is with us
Great news on this happy Friday. The highly regarded UK illustrator Laura Carlin has joined the Memories project. I did an interview with her for Design Week a few weeks ago and couldn’t resist asking her to do an image for us afterwards. I would be remiss in my responsibilities to this project if I [...]
A hoy there! Welcome aboard ahoythere…
Award winning designer Ross Crawford and David Souch of Ahoythere join us. They are in the process of building a new site but you can check the here.
Hello Sarah Beetson
Today we’re happy to welcome Sarah Beetson aboard the merry ship that is Memories. I first wrote about Sarah a couple of years ago when she had a show going around to various cities which included a Pepsi vending machine. You put your money in and out came one of her pictures, rolled up. Each [...]
Greetings Ventza
Ventza is the alias of a contemporary, London based mixed media artist. He has been specialising in spray can art for over a decade and applies his finely tuned graffiti techniques to a range of different mediums. Having exhibited nationwide alongside some of the most talented individuals of the moment, Ventza continues to push his [...]
Good day to you… Mr… Wilson2000!
Steven is an Illustrator who lives and works in Brighton, UK. Originally from North London Steven fell in love with Brighton whilst studying on the renowned Illustration course there. He can often be found foraging through the local flea markets for obscure books and discarded paraphernalia to use as inspiration. Circus posters, fairgrounds, victorian postcards [...]
Welcome Lizzie Mary Cullen
Get used to the name Lizzie Mary Cullen because we think she’s going to be big! So it’s pretty exciting that she’s accepted our invitation to create an image for the Memories book. She graduated last year and won an award at New Designers 09 and another one at the Images 33 exhibition run by [...]
Hennie Haworth is with us!
There’s an undeniable charm about Hennie Haworth‘s colourful and somewhat naive illustration style. So we’re really pleased today to announce that she has committed to creating a piece of artwork for our book, Memories. Hennie’s done commercial work for everyone from travel companies to the Telegraph, and has even had some of her hand-drawn pattern [...]
Hello Bel Johnstone
Today we welcome Bel Johnstone to the Memories project. She’s going to be creating an image for our book, which is in aid of the cancer charity Maggie’s, in response to a story about Tom Preston, who discovered he had leukemia at the age of 18. Bel has specialised in making images out of tiny [...]
Good Wives and Warriors
The collaborative illustration duo Good Wives and Warriors are the latest ones to join our merry gang. The pair are Becky Bolton and Louise Chappell and they named their studio after the etymology of their first names. Rebecca means ‘good wife’, and Louise drives from Louis, meaning ‘warrior’. Combining line work which is often quite [...]
Ginger Monkey joins the project
The West Country is doing us proud, as another Bristol-based artist has joined the Memories project. On any given day Tom Lane – aka Ginger Monkey – will be in his studio working on an illustration for a book or magazine, or coming up with branding ideas for a company. It’s exciting to think that [...]
Becky Glover joins Memories
The Bristol-based designer and illustrator Becky Glover – aka Severn Studios – has agreed to create an image for our book, Memories. Becky does incredible graphic and figurative work using inks and watercolours, and we love her nature- and fashion-inspired illustrations. Like so many of the people involved in Memories, her life has been touched [...]
Just some news…
Firstly, I wanted to let people know about issue three of Popshot, the poetry and illustration magazine seen above. Founder and editor Jacob Denno has helped on the Memories project and the latest edition of his mag features poetry on the theme of Liberation. Just as with Memories, inside the illustrators respond to the poems [...]
Welcome, Dongyun Lee
The very talented up-and-coming illustrator Dongyun Lee has agreed to create an image for the Memories book. This is great news, and Dongyun’s work was recently chosen to appear in the Communication Arts 2010 Illustration Annual, and was in 3×3′s annual last year. He’s also been doing work for GQ France, Wired UK and Time [...]
Johann Chan joins Memories project
Designer and illustrator Johann Chan has put his weight behind the Memories project, and will be creating an image for the book. It’s great news because Johann is an old friend of mine and we used to work together. Today he’s the art editor of Digital Arts magazine and CIO magazine at IDG Publishing, as [...]