
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 [...]

The latest artist to sign his name to the Memories roster is Danny Allison. He’s been busy creating an image to go with Frank Joussen’s story about Ramona Horn, a young girl in Germany who lost her life to a brain tumour. Danny’s style is marked by big, bold colours and a mixture of traditional [...]

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), [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]