MD Notebook A6 Artist Collaboration - Holly Wales

In celebration of MD's 15th year anniversary, the MD team invited Holly Wales and 14 other artists to get creative with the MD Notebook and enjoy the way you can write everywhere, even on the cover. Then they created a special-edition MD Notebooks with the artists' illustrations and writing blind embossed on the covers.

With the artists given carte blanche on an A5 MD, the original artwork is debossed on an A6 notebook.

Holly Wales for Midori MD

Holly is a UK-based illustrator. Working only with marker pens, she draws a wide variety of motifs, constantly pushing the boundaries of what can be done with marker pens. She uses layers of typography and colors to create motifs with dynamic compositions. Fluidity and elements created by chance are important parts of her creation process.

About their artwork for Midori MD, Holly shares: "My illustration for the MD Notebook is based on extracts from the poems of one of my favourite poets, Mary Oliver. I took 2 lines from two separate poems & put them together to tell a new story. I drew them using Tombow Dual Brush Pens, concentrating on the negative space between the words as much as the words themselves."

Have a look at Holly Wales' artwork and portfolio here.