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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 [...]
Niel Quisaba – our man in Manila
Well, he’s not in Manila actually, but we are really pleased to have recruited the Philipino illustrator Niel Quisaba to the project. With a fascinating, playful style that includes freaky little characters, he does design work by day and creates his self-initiated illustrations in his spare time. His latest work is a design for a [...]
Ben the Illustrator
Ben O’Brien – aka Ben the Illustrator – has joined the Memories project. Back when I was editing Computer Arts he was one of our top contributors, thanks to his great imagination and digital skills. His work has gone from strength to strength, and he’s become one of the UK’s most popular, and friendliest, illustrators. [...]
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), [...]
Irena Zablotska – hello!
The latest artist to join in on the Memories project does so from all the way over in Lviv, a city in the Ukraine. Irena Zablotska has an unusual style that she describes as ‘elegant horror’, however many find there’s beauty and charm in her colourful, abstract images. The image you see above was used [...]
Derek Bacon joins us
One of the UK’s top editorial illustrators, Derek Bacon, has joined the Memories project. With clients like The Economist, The Times, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal, many of Derek’s pieces cover current affairs and serious issues. You might have seen his most recent illustration for The Economist which looks at the main party [...]
The text is done!
Great news. Yesterday we subbed the final version of the final story to go into the Memories book. That makes for twelve ‘memories’, and the last piece was written by Gordon Kirk up in Scotland. His story tells the tale of how he discovered he had cancer six weeks after the birth of his daughter [...]
Bonjour, Jules Julien!
I swear, being part of the Memories project is a great experience. It’s not just working with talented creative people. It’s the fantastic response and touching stories we hear every day. For instance, last week I asked the French illustrator Julien Roure if he would participate and he said, ‘Oui!’ So I sent him Patrick [...]
New artist Vesna Pesic
Today we’re welcoming Vesna Pesic – AKA Becha – to the Memories project. She’s a young creative in Serbia who works in motion graphics by day, but in her spare time she creates montage pieces using… well, anything that catches her eye. It might include old newspapers, pieces of paper, rusty objects, grey photos and [...]
The mighty Vaughan Oliver!
Some of the best British graphic design work ever done is to be found on the covers of albums released by 4AD, created by Vaughan Oliver, along with Chris Bigg, and the photographers they collaborated with. The Pixies, The Cocteau Twins, The Breeders, Throwing Muses… those were the days. There was always texture in the [...]
Hello, Inkymole
Today we are happy to announce that Sarah Jane Coleman, aka Inkymole Illustration, is working on an image for Memories, the creative book that we’re doing to fight cancer. Sarah is known around the industry for her expressive, type-based designs. She’s worked on book covers for the big publishers, created packaging and advertising for a [...]
Paul Holland is in
Our thanks go out this fine Saturday to Paul Holland, the Paris-based illustrator who agreed this week to create an image for Memories. He’s going to respond to the story in the book from Germany, about Ramona Horn. I love Paul’s bold images which include elements he photographs, as well as hand- and computer-drawn elements, [...]
Rob Ryan's in. Ace!
When we went up to the Maggies Cancer Care Centre in Hammersmith to discuss donating the money we make from Memories to their charity, I noticed they were selling a card with an image on the front created by the illustrator Rob Ryan. We all thought it was a great idea to ask him to [...]
Linn Olofsdotter WIP
Another exciting week for us. For a start, today we are able to announce that Linn Olofsdotter is busy creating an image for Memories. In fact, she’s well on her way to completing it already and what you can see above is a work in progress. Linn’s image is a response to the story The [...]
Memories x Mario Hugo
New York, New York! The city is doing us proud this week, with a third artist based in NYC joining the Memories project. At just 27, Mario Hugo is one of New York’s brightest creative stars. He illustrates using his incredible drawing skills, but also designs an array of websites for bands and fashion brands, [...]
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 [...]
Our latest illustrator is Michael Paul Young
For the last decade, Michael Paul Young has been doing some of the most inspiring design work out there. At the end of last year, he was telling me about some video graphics he was working on for U2, and his other clients include Coca-Cola, MTV, VH1 and Ford. But it hasn’t just been about [...]
Erica Burns, welcome to Memories
Strong line work and whimsical subjectmatter are trademarks of the illustration work of Erica Burns. And we’re really pleased to announce that her powerful and colourful style will be appearing in Memories. Erica has done some great work in the past – you may have seen her murals for Virgin Travel in railway stations. She’s [...]
Zeegen will contribute
Happy New Year. The blog has been quiet over the holidays but we’ve continued quietly with things and on New Year’s Day I got an email from Lawrence Zeegen confirming that he’s going to create an image for the Memories book. I’ve known Lawrence for quite a few years now, and remember when he created [...]
Memories and Maggie's
The Memories project has finally found a suitable beneficiary. The funds we raise from the sale of the Memories book when we launch next year will go to Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres. Maggie’s is a perfect fit for the Memories project. The charity has six centres open already – many designed by top architects – [...]