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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 [...]
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), [...]
The Costa Book of the Year
This really resonates with what we’re doing on Memories. The Costa Book of the Year 2009 award went to the poet Christopher Reid for his book, A Scattering. It consists of a series of poems about losing his wife to cancer in 2005. I haven’t read the book but it sounds extremely emotional, particularly considering [...]
Autumn Whitehurst joins Memories
I had a feeling that this would be an exciting week for Memories, and we’ve just had confirmation from Autumn Whitehurst she will be contributing an image for the book. Based in New York, we can safely say that Autumn has been one of the finest illustrators of the digital era. Her fantastically rendered style [...]
Sarah and leukemia
This beautiful image is a piece of artwork by Sarah Yates, who works under the name Fauna Graphic. We’re pleased to announce that Sarah is going to provide one of the ‘memories’ for our book. Three years ago, she was suffering with leukemia and she won her battle with the disease. I can’t wait to hear [...]