Andrew Rae, Emily Forgot, Oliver Jeffers and Steven Appleby are among fifteen illustrators that have contributed to Curious Stories, a book conceived by creative agency Dorothy to raise money for children’s charity Curious Minds.
Curious Minds works in the North West of the UK to make sure all children have access to quality arts and cultural learning activities, providing kids with opportunities to be creative. Dorothy’s idea for this fund-raising campaign was to create a book full of insights from well-loved British creative folk who were asked to contribute stories about what inspired them when they were children.
This looks really nice! Young Colossus is an illustrated book with a 6 song soundtrack, with music by Orlando Weeks (who’s out of the indie band The Maccabees) and drawings by Robert Hunter (who is awesome).
“As the YCN Student Awards approach their tenth year, we are delighted to publish another edition of our YCN Student Awards Annual, designed in-house at YCN. Showcasing all the stellar work commended as part of the most recent programme, as well as this year’s live briefs, we also catch up with commendees from previous years’ Awards to discuss how they’re practices have grown and evolved since participating.
We are thrilled to have collaborated with photographer Nick Ballon throughout this year’s annual. Nick produced some terrific portraits for our profile pieces on previous Awards commendees, including Sophie Browness, Matt Ivey, Vicky Simmons, James Dawe and Rick Dodds and Steve Howell. He also photographed this year’s Student Of The Year Award, created by lighting designer Phillip Oakley, for the front cover.
As ever, the publication marks the launch of the latest annual YCN Student Awards; presenting new live creative challenges - from the likes of Google, Heinz Salad Cream and SEGA - for all those who wish to tackle them. More information on the YCN Student Awards programme can be found here.
A limited number of copies of this year’s annual are now available to buy online here.”
Design Matters captured by Hillman Curtis, Debbie Millman sits down with illustrator Brian Rea, designer Paul Sahre, entrepreneur Josh Liberson, innovation expert DeeDee Gordon, and author Malcolm Gladwell to talk about the latter’s fantastic illustrated collection of The Tipping Point,Blink, and Outliers
