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Jules Julien at Pick Me Up
If you’re London-based, or in the capital anytime between 17 and 27 March, don’t forget to stop by the Pick Me Up art fair and exhibition at Somerset House. The reason we say this is because Memories artist Julien Roare, aka Jules Julien, will be showing and selling his work there. I’ve interviewed Julien a [...]
NewSugar? Sweet!
Today we’re able to announce that illustrator and designer Julian James is part of the Memories project. Julian has created an image to go with the story Tom’s Frozen Army, about Tom Preston who survived leukemia. Julian works as an illustrator under the moniker Whyisbox and also runs the digital magazine NewSugar which features cool [...]
Zoë Bather brings a memory to life!
The Memories team is pleased to announce that Zoë Bather from Studio 8 has agreed to be apart of our project and has created a wonderful piece for the book. Zoë brings with her vast design experience having previously worked at Frost* before starting Studio 8 with Matt Wiley. Her excellent typographic sensibilities means she has spoken [...]
Whoop, whoop, it’s Middle Boop
Our thanks go out today to illustrator and designer Gordon Reid, aka Middle Boop. He’s become a Memories contributor and will be creating one of his smashing pieces for the book. As well as working for clients including Malibu, Maxim, Digital Arts, Computer Arts and Advanced Photoshop, he’s known for his work in the music [...]
Bibliothèque design join Memories
We’re pleased to announce that Bibliothèque Design are continuing their working relationship with DAHRA by joining the Memories project. Renowned for their excellent typographic and design skills, they’ve put their incredible creativity to work for prestigious clients such as D&AD, Design Museum, Covent Garden, Dieter Rams & Vitsœ and Moving Brands. Having previously worked on [...]
Shane S Mielke signs up!
The Memories team is pleased to announce that we have the wonderful and talented Shane S Mielke on board! Known for his excellent and web-defining work as creative director at 2Advanced, Shane in recent years has also developed a reputation as a great illustrator. Combining his varied design skills with passion and commitment, his work [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]