Memories Creating an amazing art book for the cancer charity Maggie's
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Archive for August, 2009
Sarah and leukemia
This beautiful image is a piece of artwork by Sarah Yates, who works under the name Fauna Graphic. We’re pleased to announce that Sarah is going to provide one of the ‘memories’ for our book. Three years ago, she was suffering with leukemia and she won her battle with the disease. I can’t wait to hear [...]
DATA Exhibition / 3 Minutes Launch
Tuesday night saw the Launch of DAHRA’s DATA Exhibition. Presenting 55 exclusive artworks from the DATA Book. The show featured artworks from designers such as: Nick Ainly, Jonathan Barnbrook, Jon Burgerman, Alex Haigh, Nick Hard, Si Scott, Alex Trochut and Ari Weinkle. The night also saw the launch of the latest book from DAHRA 3 minutes, which is [...]
New writer joins Memories project
I met Kay Inglis when she was working on Imagine FX magazine at Future Publishing, and I was working on Computer Arts. She’s a great wordsmith, and she told me that she got her love of reading and writing from her mother. It’s her mother that Kay will be writing about for one of our [...]
Emotional depth
I was talking to one of the writers the other day and that made me think about things. She wasn’t sure whether to focus on a memory that was positive and happy, or one that was more sobering. You could be receiving loads of flowers and chocolates when you’re in hospital, and just feel overjoyed that [...]
Flyer in a hurry
So we got the blog up and running, and looking all pretty, and we thought, “What shall we do next?” It wasn’t long before we decided to get some traffic coming to the blog by tweeting, talking about it on Facebook and adding it to our email signatures. We’ve had some great feedback, such as [...]
Luke O’Neill graphic
Check out this great mood graphic that Luke O’Neill has created for the Memories project. We’re using it as part of the banner across the top of this very blog as you can see, and on our About>Information page, where anyone visiting this site can find out about exactly what our Memories book is going [...]
Tom Dennis interview
Tom Dennis deputy editor of Computer Arts magazine kicked of the interview process for the memories project. Tom interviewed myself about my experience of cancer over the last 2 years, how it has effected my life and what I have learned. I looked back at a particular day I remember about my father before he passed [...]
A breast cancer memory commissioned
Yesterday I got in touch with Anne Johnson, who is a really nice lady who had breast cancer. Happily, she was successfully treated for it and her story is going to appear in the section of Memories where we talk to survivors of the disease. She’s going to be interviewed by Lara Glasspool, a journalist [...]