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When we went up to the Maggies Cancer Care Centre in Hammersmith to discuss donating the money we make from Memories to their charity, I noticed they were selling a card with an image on the front created by the illustrator Rob Ryan. We all thought it was a great idea to ask him to participate in Memories by creating an image for the book. But Rob is in the upper echelons of the illustration and design scene. His studio is very busy. Could we pull it off?

Well, folks, the dream has become a reality. Rob has accepted our brief and will be creating an image for The Fox Cubs, a story about leukemia survivor survivor Sarah Yates. He also sent over some encouraging words about the project, saying that working for Maggies is a great thing to be doing. We welcome Rob aboard and thank him for taking the time to do this. His work is some of the finest papercraft-based illustration going – he cuts out silhouette scenes, complete with texturing and letter work, from sheets of coloured paper. Intricate, unique and totally authentic are all words that spring to mind, as you can see by the example above, so check it out here.

The momentum continues as we have signed up Tatiana Arocha to create an image for Memories. Tatiana does all kinds of work from motion graphics to graphic design and illustration. Anyone who saw her Rainforest Sanctuaries illustrations last year will know how incredible her representations of nature can be. The above sample image she sent us is stunning too. She’s from Colombia, but today lives in New York.

There was a bit of a mix-up when I emailed Tatiana and she thought we wanted her to do 12 images. Of course, she’s only going to do one but she’s so commited to our project that she said she didn’t mind doing 12 if we needed them. That’s really touching. She told me she feels a connection to our project as her mother-in-law died of cancer not that long ago. Our thoughts go out to her husband and family.

We’re grateful to have another talented illustrator on board and strongly recommend you visit her website here.

Born in the UK, Matthew Dent is a freelance Illustrator working out of his studio in North West London. Since early 2009 Matthew has worked on a whole range of different briefs, from Editorial Illustrations, Snowboards, T-shirts, Programs to Posters. Matthew also runs The Puzzle Shop, feel free to take a look and go grab yourself a nice little puzzle!

Matthew has an impressive client list including: Bloc Party, Big Chill Festival, Camp Bestival, FACT Magazine, Dazed & Confused, YCN, Propaganda &Ubiquity Records.

Matthew is also currently working on a lot of charity projects so is happy to be on board with Memories.

Take a look at his portfolio here:

www.matthewdent.co.uk

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 Meteor, the very touching piece about how a young German girl lost her struggle with cancer.

Linn is a fantastic illustrator and I’ve always loved the texture and atmosphere she manages to get into her images. Back when I was on Computer Arts I really enjoyed briefing her for one of the magazine’s Inspiration Workshop articles and gave here the difficult job of creating an image all about the petroleum crisis. I guess there must have been a petroleum crisis going on at the time. Check out more of here work here. Isn’t it amazing?

Memories welcomes Philipp Zurmöhle,

Philipp Zurmöhle is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator born in Hannover Germany. After his communication design studies he worked in various german agencies and spent two years in Oslo, Norway to work at the branding agency Mission Design.

He now is employed at adidas in Germany where he illustrates graphics for apparel. Philipp is also is keen to do something meaningful with his design work.

On his site www.phillennium.com he shows his varied body of design works and blogs about art and design in his blog www.phillennium.com/blog