Analogues is an audiovisual studio journal from me, animation artist Lewis Heriz. It’s a space for me to think about animation (techniques and technologies), and being human.
Each irregular post is a collection of disparate associations, usually with a unifying (if tenuous) thread of some sort. You could think of them as an ongoing series of exploded essay films. Multimedia in nature, the audio voiceover acts both as an augmentation, with some form of sound work giving the visuals an atmosphere, and as a standalone podcast that you can subscribe to if you want to just listen.
Although each post takes a while to put together, I’m resolutely not seeing this as work, but more a way of reflecting on and developing my work. As such, it doesn’t feel right to ask for or expect anyone to pay for it. You can still pledge a payment if you want to support it, though, and of course I’d be very grateful. There’s a chance a second - separate and different - paid newsletter may emerge, but not for some time.
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A bit about me
I’m a multidisciplinary artist, currently specialising in animation, now based in the Shropshire hills, in the UK.
I’ve been working as a freelance illustrator and designer since 2007. Animation was always my true love, but illustration and design (mainly in music) was my main work for 15 years. I am proud to have designed over 200 record covers for various record labels and bands, with regular work for Soundway and Strut Records. I’m one-third of Sofrito, a record label and club night born in East London that celebrated and promoted the area’s international dancefloor culture & history since 2008. I have designed posters for events such as the San Francisco Jazz Festival in 2019 & 2022, Curzon’s Agnes Varda season (2018), and Open City Documentary Festival in 2017. I still design, but animation is now the thing that mostly fills my day.
My final MA project from the Royal College of Art, So Long (We Dreamt of This) has been screened at Annecy International Animation Festival & Aesthetica Short Film Festival in 2022, and was awarded Best Experimental Film at Experimental Film East Anglia. My first animated short in 2019, Improv (1) was awarded a Vimeo Staff Pick.
Currently I am creative lead for Fully Human, a new research arm of the PSHE Association, a space to think about ways to help young people navigate the challenges of a digital life.
