Memories Creating an amazing art book for the cancer charity Maggie's
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Artists
Ben Tallon joins the project
We apologise for the bloggio silence – things have been busy though, and a lot has been going on here behind the scenes. We’ve been compiling images and text, chasing missing contributions, and trying our best to fill in some of the gaps. It’s not very exciting and there’s not always much to report. However… [...]
Chrissie Abbott is in!
Some of the freshest illustration work in the UK right now is coming from young artist Chrissie Abbott. She’s a dab hand at picking up old news print images and retro photography and combining them with her own handmade elements to create acid-coloured collages that seem to have intriguing undertones. Right now Chrissie is inspired [...]
Gary’s book and Lizzie’s ex
As we sort out the last handful of images for Memories, we thought we’d share some updates on a couple of artists who are in the book. Firstly, Gary Taxali has launched his children’s book This is Silly. We are totally envious that the launch takes place at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto [...]
The award-winning Simon Pemberton
Well, you can’t be the editor of a book filled with illustration and go to a major illustration awards ceremony and NOT network with illustrators, right? When I went to Images 34 the other night, it was a great opportunity not only to see a whole range of interesting work but I got the chance [...]
Images 34
Great to see a number of artists who are contributing to Memories having their commercial work shown at Images 34, the Association of Illustrators annual show held at London College of Communication last night. I went along and it was great to Simon Spilsbury in attendance to pick up a bronze award for one of [...]
Hello Dust
Here’s a nice story. Memories contributor Simon Spilsbury told fellow illustrator/designer Patrick Walker that he was doing an image for Memories, and shortly afterwards we got an email from Patrick asking to get involved. His studio, Dust, do some amazing work in illustration and print design so we really wanted to get them on board. [...]
Roddy Llewellyn joins Memories
Today we’re welcoming on board Roddy Llewellyn, one of the best magazine designers in the UK. For the last 14 years he’s worked on titles like cre@teonline, Digital Camera, .net, Computer Arts and 3D World coming up with innovative page designs and front covers, working with dozens of different illustrators every issue. I’ve known Roddy [...]
Hello – Si Billam
Memories welcomes Si Billam, founder and art director of UNIT. UNIT is the collective and collaborative work of UK designers Si Billam and James Sanderson. Working globally across music, fashion, lifestyle and youth culture. Working with clients such as: Human Studio, Universal Everything, Pollinate Records, Carbon Logic Publishing, Computer Arts, MTV Italy, Coca Cola USA, [...]
Welcome Jimmy Turrell
Jimmy Turrell is a London based illustrator, originally hailing from Newcastle. He studied at Central St Martins and his work combines a love of handmade collage, drawing and painting alongside digital techniques. His clients to date include Nike, Channel 4, The Guardian, Intro, KK Outlet, The New York Times, Universal Records, XL Recordings, Tokion, Dazed [...]
Emily Forgot… or not?
Well it does seem a little strange for a project called Memories to team up with an artist who goes by the alias Emily Forgot. Right? But that’s what we’re doing and we feel no shame in this because despite her somewhat whimsical monicker Emily is on the money when it comes to contemporary image [...]
Super Simon Spilsbury
Yes! Today we can announce that award-winning Bath-based illustrator Simon Spilsbury has joined the Memories project. I’ve known Simon for a few years now and he works in a very cool studio at The Dispensary in Bath doing both his own freelance work, and collaborating with fellow creatives under the banner of Art Bombers. He’s [...]
Give it up for Shotopop
The Memories project welcomes Shotopop – aka creative duo Casper Franken and Carin Standford. They’re a creative studio specialising in illustration, design and art direction. Clients range from Computer Arts magazine to rock outfit Skunk Anansie, and the day that they accepted the Memories brief they were on location in South Africa shooting a music [...]
Legendary Liam Sharp joins Memories
Anyone who’s up on their comics will know who Liam Sharp is. The talented British artist has worked on titles like Judge Dredd, The X-Men, The Incredible Hulk, Superman and Batman, and has collaborated on many other projects for their well-known proprietors 2000AD, Marvel and DC. He also runs his own publishing company called Mam [...]
Flan – BuiltByRimes
Flan is a 28 year old Creative/Art Director based in Barcelona focusing on interactive typography, graphic design & motion graphics. Flan has been involved with speeches and exhibitions at events and festivals like OFFF (2003, 2004, 2005,2008), 2ºCongreso de Tipografía de España Working as a freelance director, making online/offline interactive, events and live reactive visuals, working with [...]
New artist – Matthew Richardson
A couple of weeks ago the V&A gave out its Illustrator of the Year awards, and Matthew Richardson picked up the prize in their editorial category for an incredible piece he did for New Scientist. So we’re really pleased to announce that he’s joined our merry band of creatives on the Memories project. Matthew is [...]
Hello, David Cousens
David Cousens of Cool Surface has joined the Memories project. He works in a modern, graphic novel style employing digital techniques, using his skills in book illustration – which sounds ideal for our project! He’s going to be creating an image for the Memories book, which will be sold to benefit Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres. [...]
Dave Kendall is painting…
The latest artist to join our project is Dave Kendall, who has incredible painting skills. Dave is a fantasy artist well known in the comic book industry. As such, he’s into things like spirits, giants, changelings and frequently creates images for the Magic: The Gathering and World of Warcraft card games. One thing I love [...]
Greig Anderson Submission
A personal thanks to Greig Anderson Creative Director at Effektive for posting his memories submission on the Effektive website. http://www.effektivedesign.co.uk/#4586/Latest-News This is a rare chance to feast your eyes on a memories submission as we are holding back the majority of artwork for the book. The submission was inspired by a personal memory found in [...]
Studio 8
We’re thrilled to announce that studio 8 have agreed to take part in the Memories project! There excellent work speaks for itself and we are extremely grateful to zoe and the gang at Studio 8 for coming on board
Binary & The Brain
The design duo Simon Dovar and Nils Davey are Binary & The Brain, and they’ve thrown their weight behind Memories project. Formerly Jawa & Midwich, they do all kinds of design work including book covers and music packaging, as well as online work. The image you see here is from their self-initiated poster range. Another [...]
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.
