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Planning Unit comes on board
With over 20 years combined experience at London’s top design agencies (including Form and Neville Brody’s Research Studios), Nick Hard and Jeff Knowles have teamed up to follow their dream of launching a leading creative design studio, Planning Unit. In the 1960s, co-founder Nick Hard’s grandfather ran a design studio of the same name. This [...]
Heather Horsley joins in
The Derby-based artist and illustrator Heather Horsley is creating an image for the Memories book. Fine detail and sophisticated layering is what Heather strives for in her illustrations, exploring interesting elements of visual meaning. Her book illustrations can range from the unorthodox to the stylish, from offbeat to thought provoking and challenging. Before and whilst [...]
Point 273
Point 273 makes art, designs, curates and now and then gets time to organise the Best Joined Up live art events. It’s fantastic to have him on board the Memories project, and he’s created an illustration to go with Patrick Woodcock’s poem Swimming with Dolphins… He’s worked for such clients as Channel 4, BBE Records [...]
Welcome to ‘iamventsa’
Memories is happy to welcome iamventsa, this chap is an illustrator and aerosol artist and is one quarter of the FOURPENCE collective. He has been specialising in spray can art for over a decade and applies his finely tuned graffiti skills to create surreal scenes where technical perspectives meet playful illustration. His passion for typography [...]
Jules Julien at Pick Me Up
If you’re London-based, or in the capital anytime between 17 and 27 March, don’t forget to stop by the Pick Me Up art fair and exhibition at Somerset House. The reason we say this is because Memories artist Julien Roare, aka Jules Julien, will be showing and selling his work there. I’ve interviewed Julien a [...]
NewSugar? Sweet!
Today we’re able to announce that illustrator and designer Julian James is part of the Memories project. Julian has created an image to go with the story Tom’s Frozen Army, about Tom Preston who survived leukemia. Julian works as an illustrator under the moniker Whyisbox and also runs the digital magazine NewSugar which features cool [...]
Zoë Bather brings a memory to life!
The Memories team is pleased to announce that Zoë Bather from Studio 8 has agreed to be apart of our project and has created a wonderful piece for the book. Zoë brings with her vast design experience having previously worked at Frost* before starting Studio 8 with Matt Wiley. Her excellent typographic sensibilities means she has spoken [...]
Whoop, whoop, it’s Middle Boop
Our thanks go out today to illustrator and designer Gordon Reid, aka Middle Boop. He’s become a Memories contributor and will be creating one of his smashing pieces for the book. As well as working for clients including Malibu, Maxim, Digital Arts, Computer Arts and Advanced Photoshop, he’s known for his work in the music [...]
Bibliothèque design join Memories
We’re pleased to announce that Bibliothèque Design are continuing their working relationship with DAHRA by joining the Memories project. Renowned for their excellent typographic and design skills, they’ve put their incredible creativity to work for prestigious clients such as D&AD, Design Museum, Covent Garden, Dieter Rams & Vitsœ and Moving Brands. Having previously worked on [...]
Shane S Mielke signs up!
The Memories team is pleased to announce that we have the wonderful and talented Shane S Mielke on board! Known for his excellent and web-defining work as creative director at 2Advanced, Shane in recent years has also developed a reputation as a great illustrator. Combining his varied design skills with passion and commitment, his work [...]
Dreams and Memories
Memories team member Rishi Sodha, founder of Designers Against Human Rights Abuse (DAHRA), has created his own dream version of the Memories book. Using the stories and images we have in so far, he has assembled a prototype of Memories with an incredible faux leather embossed cover, and bound it by hand. Pushing his layout [...]
New talent Ollie Johns joins
One of the ideals hold in esteem here on Memories is that of supporting new talent. Not only will we be giving up and coming artists the chance to show what they can do, but we are certain that it will give the final book we produce a fresh, original edge. Ollie Johns is an [...]
Erik Natzke – Blurring the lines.
We are excited to welcome Erik Natzke onboard the Memories project. Erik Natzke is an interactive designer who is constantly trying to blur the lines between design and technology.With a keen awareness for how and where to push the limits of the medium without isolating the audience, Erik is a consistent risk-taker. Crediting his success with [...]
We have Mr Bowlegs
This fine evening we’d like to let you know that the wonderful graphic designer at large Jeffrey Bowman is part of the Memories project. Jeffrey’s always doing fresh projects both commercially and in whatever areas his abstract and surrealist interests take him. This particular work was from his MA final show at the University of [...]
Steven Bonner
Memories welcomes Steven Bonner a graphic designer / illustrator based in Scotland. Steven works with private clients as well as consulting for other creative agencies, producing high quality work across a variety of disciplines including identity and branding, printed literature, advertising, art direction, and web design. His style is suitable for a wide range of [...]
Bonjour Stéphane Faure
Memories welcomes Stéphane Faure (aka beesub). Stéphane founded Beesub as a full service studio focused on cutting-edge and progressive design. Located in Paris, with a long history in graphic design, Beesub.org cooperates with a network of trusted partners to create visual solutions across a variety of media plateforms, from concept to final delivery. I first met [...]
Von R Glitschka – Memories artist
Happy New Year. How did it feel to go back to work? Here on the Memories project we’re embracing 2011 with vigour as we continue to work on our charity book. Today I’d like to highlight one of our artists, the graphic designer Von R Glitschka. Von has been designing fantastic logos and icons, and [...]
Paul Tysall is on board
Let me qualify this post by saying two things. Firstly, Paul Tysall has actually been part of the project almost since the beginning. He’s one of the first people we invited. It’s just – tut, tut – we’ve taken a very long time to blog about him working on the project. And the second thing [...]
Memories Artists in London Exhibition
Subism, best know for it’s internationally acclaimed collective of street, graffiti and illustration artists presents Curating Spaces 2010 at Red Bull Studios, Tooley Street, London. The show, running from 13th to the 18th December, pitches itself as an evolving exhibition. Alongside existing works on show from established artists that have produced work for the Memories [...]
Welcome Danny Allison
The latest artist to sign his name to the Memories roster is Danny Allison. He’s been busy creating an image to go with Frank Joussen’s story about Ramona Horn, a young girl in Germany who lost her life to a brain tumour. Danny’s style is marked by big, bold colours and a mixture of traditional [...]
Alice in Memories land
Our latest artist announcement is Alice Smith, whom I recently spoke to for a piece in the latest issue of Computer Arts. She got in touch about Memories a little while later as cancer has had a big impact on her family, and it’s great to have her on board creating an image. She’s been [...]
Eduardo Bertone joins the project
The Argentine illustrator Eduardo Bertone has agreed to create an image for the Memories book. This is great news as the former designer who turned his talents to art and illustration has a really natural and expressive style. Mixing fine art and street art tendencies, he’s been making a name for himself across commercial and [...]
Nitzan
Memories welcomes on board Nitzan. A NYC based designer specializing in identity design, brand application and art direction for the music industry. Collaborations include galleries, media start-ups and other designers on both promotional and self-initiated projects. Previous projects include work with PYMCA gallery, RJDJ,Sawdust, Electric Avenue and Adam Brett to name a few. Nitzan also runs Fine Art Rec and Save [...]
Lee Ford
A big Memories welcome to Lee Ford, a Sheffield based image make. You may recognise Lee’s editorial work from the Design Week Creative Survey and ID magazine. Lee uses a broad spectrum of media including photography, printmaking, photocopiers, drawing, textures and computers. His work often evolves from complex social issues describes in a visceral visual [...]