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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 [...]
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 [...]
Gary Taxali illustrating for Memories
There’s been a lot of action behind the scenes in the last few days, so here’s the first bit of news… Back in February I was in Toronto and I had the pleasure of interviewing Gary Taxali, one of the top illustrators in North America and, indeed, the world. Last week I contacted Gary inviting [...]
hi… Ollie Munden
Memories Book Project Welcomes aboard the Ollie Munden, illustrator, muralist, tattoo designer and Senior designer at McFaul Studio, you can see more of his work here. Also you can check him out at the ‘Brighton Freakshow’ which is a carefully hand selected illustration show exhibiting some of Brighton’s finest image making talent. Appropriately housed in [...]
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 [...]