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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 [...]
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 [...]
Thank-you to Digital Artist mag
We’d like to send our thanks to the folks at Digital Artist who included a story of about 1.5 pages on Memories in issue nine of their magazine. Check out pages 16 and 17 for a great story about the project including Luke O’Neill’s theme image for Memories, and also images by Sarah Yates, Nancy [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hello Sarah Beetson
Today we’re happy to welcome Sarah Beetson aboard the merry ship that is Memories. I first wrote about Sarah a couple of years ago when she had a show going around to various cities which included a Pepsi vending machine. You put your money in and out came one of her pictures, rolled up. Each [...]
Greetings Ventza
Ventza is the alias of a contemporary, London based mixed media artist. He has been specialising in spray can art for over a decade and applies his finely tuned graffiti techniques to a range of different mediums. Having exhibited nationwide alongside some of the most talented individuals of the moment, Ventza continues to push his [...]
Good day to you… Mr… Wilson2000!
Steven is an Illustrator who lives and works in Brighton, UK. Originally from North London Steven fell in love with Brighton whilst studying on the renowned Illustration course there. He can often be found foraging through the local flea markets for obscure books and discarded paraphernalia to use as inspiration. Circus posters, fairgrounds, victorian postcards [...]
Welcome Lizzie Mary Cullen
Get used to the name Lizzie Mary Cullen because we think she’s going to be big! So it’s pretty exciting that she’s accepted our invitation to create an image for the Memories book. She graduated last year and won an award at New Designers 09 and another one at the Images 33 exhibition run by [...]
Hennie Haworth is with us!
There’s an undeniable charm about Hennie Haworth‘s colourful and somewhat naive illustration style. So we’re really pleased today to announce that she has committed to creating a piece of artwork for our book, Memories. Hennie’s done commercial work for everyone from travel companies to the Telegraph, and has even had some of her hand-drawn pattern [...]
Hello Bel Johnstone
Today we welcome Bel Johnstone to the Memories project. She’s going to be creating an image for our book, which is in aid of the cancer charity Maggie’s, in response to a story about Tom Preston, who discovered he had leukemia at the age of 18. Bel has specialised in making images out of tiny [...]
Good Wives and Warriors
The collaborative illustration duo Good Wives and Warriors are the latest ones to join our merry gang. The pair are Becky Bolton and Louise Chappell and they named their studio after the etymology of their first names. Rebecca means ‘good wife’, and Louise drives from Louis, meaning ‘warrior’. Combining line work which is often quite [...]
Ginger Monkey joins the project
The West Country is doing us proud, as another Bristol-based artist has joined the Memories project. On any given day Tom Lane – aka Ginger Monkey – will be in his studio working on an illustration for a book or magazine, or coming up with branding ideas for a company. It’s exciting to think that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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