WEEK 3.3.9 RESEARCH REVIEW

CRAIG OLDHAM- IN LOVING MEMORY OF LOVE

It’s a visual record of what they fought for day after day, month after month, and the ripple effect the passion for the strike had all over the country. With Craig openly having very personal connections to the strikes, this book of his is nothing short of a labour of love.

Also, he mentioned that design is such a middle class profession, so he wanted the young designers pick it up as a design book and then take from it a desire to create meaningful work.

I’ve learned from him that he surrounded himself with visual things that mean something to him, and they could just as easily be textbooks, or music or whatever. In Loving Memory of Work is about the collective creativity of working class people, people who dealt with their experiences and struggle creatively as a means of expression, and that’s a vital part of this particular period of history, and of humanity.

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Citation:

One of the finest books we've seen, Craig Oldham's homage to the miners' strike. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/craig-oldham-in-loving-memory-of-work