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Layouts in progress…
Today we are revealing some more of our work in progress. These images are mocked up pages showing some of the layouts we’ve been working on, and here and there you can also sneek a peak at some of the artwork. Some of these mock-ups are from Rishi Sodha’s handmade dream version of Memories which [...]
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 [...]
Subism and Memories artists paint Madrid
As you might have seen already, a handful of Subism and Memories artists jetted out to Madrid to take part in the Persianas Libres project to repaint many of the shop shutters in the city centre. It was an awesome few days and Madrid is quite a city! Here’s a couple photos of the final [...]
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 [...]
Memories artists brighten up Brixton
Artists and illustrators Malarky and Billy have been working with local shop owners in Brixton, London to brighten up their shop fronts at night. The boring, dirty, grey and often tagged shop shutter have been getting a make over by the artists. Billy and Malarky set to head out to Madrid at the beginning of [...]
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 [...]
Maggie’s V&A Exhibition
For all of our readers interested in Architecture and the wonderfully designed Maggie’s centres, The Victoria & Albert Museum and the Royal Institute of British Architects Architecture Gallery will host an exhibition next month dedicated to the design behind Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres. Read more about the event over at www.designweek.co.uk
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 [...]
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 [...]
Like Memories Book Project on Facebook
We’ve just started spreading the word about Memories using social media site Facebook. Although I’m always a little circumspect about blitzing my friends en mass using social networking in this case there’s plenty of good cause to make an exception. The project is close to completion art-wise but we’re going to need support getting it [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Incoming…
Well the deadline has past, and the artwork has been flying in! Top quality pieces, you can tell the some of the artists have used all the time to their advantage. We have had art work with more layers than Jordan’s make up, hand painted canvases using all manor of techniques and not forgeting lots [...]
Final Call for Submissions.
To everyone who’s sent in their image – both the commissioned ones who we’ve contacted directly and the open submission work – we’d like to send out our thanks. Everyone has pulled out an interesting visual angle, we’ve received some incredibly crafted and clever work, and we wouldn’t hesitate to say that Memories is going [...]