Memories Creating an amazing art book for the cancer charity Maggie's
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Artists
Welcome Jenny Robins
Another fine artist we discovered during our Open Submissions process is London-based Jenny Robins. She’s an illustrator who loves drawing birds, as well as being an art teacher. She got in touch and created an image for the story The Secret we Know by Tom Stables. “I like live drawing, layering textures, cooking and dancing [...]
Josh Lowe for Memories
Josh Lowe aka Deus is an multi disciplined artist, graphic design and illustrator by day and graffiti/street artist by night. Part of the Four Pence and Subism Collective, Josh can be seen creating hugh brightly coloured murals. You can’t help but smile at the cheeky characters and wild letter styles often containing his name ‘Deus’, [...]
Jason Devine – the clue is in the name
Okay, okay, divine is spelled with an I… but you know what we’re saying. It’s the work of young creatives like Jason Devine that is going to make flicking through the Memories book such a heavenly experience. Jason’s another illustrator we found via our Open Submissions strategy and he has created an image to go [...]
Hello John Lees
Today we welcome aboard John Lees, an interesting young artist who has just finished an FdA in graphic design and who has a passion for illustration. John is another person we just would not have found without our Open Submissions procedure – he got in touch, we asked him to illustrate Joe Kriss’s poem Otherside, [...]
Mighty Oscar
Today we welcome Oscar Armelles to the Memories project. He came across our project on the web and got in touch via our Open Submissions programme. So we sent him The Secret we Know, a story by Tom Stables that will be in the Memories book. Oscar created his own take on Tom’s text with [...]
Welcome Olga
Say hello, everyone, to Olga Filaktou, a Greek artist and designer who has worked in agencies around Europe. Like many of the other creatives we’ve posted about recently, she found out about Memories via our Open Submissions program, and when we looked through the artwork we knew we’d found someone special to go in the [...]
We dig Polski Andi
Rain is beating down on the roof here at the Memories outpost in Bath, UK, but that can’t stop us from telling you about another fine young artist who is contributing to the project. Andi Rusyn is of Polish extraction and based in the West Midlands from whence he practices his design and illustration trade [...]
Meet Sebastian Ramn
Today we’re introducing the talented Sebastian Ramn, one of the artists we found through our Open Submissions process. He loves to travel and he found out about Memories while working as a freelance photographer in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He dropped us a line, received our brief and the story entitled The Secret we Know which will [...]
How about Alexander Otto?
Yes, folks, how about the awesomeness of the Hamburg-based illustrator Alexander Otto? Please give him a warm welcome to the Memories project. We just know this young designer and illustrator is going to be a big star. He joined the project through our Open Submissions programme and he’s told us how great he thinks the [...]
Thom Lambert is on board
Hello folks, sorry for the bloggio silence. I’ve been doing some pretty interesting stuff like writing a feature about Star Wars and interviewing Jim Lee and Dan DiDio at DC Comics. Which is totally besides the point because even cooler than that is the news that the talented designer, illustrator and DJ Thom Lambert is [...]
Meet Memories artist Saroj Patel
Each artist who’s created an image for Memories brings with them their own unique style. What you get with Saroj Patel, who joined the project via our Open Submissions program, is a really interesting combination of graphical flair alongside intricate line work and dashes of colour and pattern. There’s so much fluidity and motion in [...]
Ariane joins Memories
Today we’re letting you know about another great talent to contribute to our book project. Ariane Rothluebbers is part German, part French, part illustrator, part designer and based in London, and she joined us via our Open Submissions program. Ariane works in a variety of different ways and you’ll find some lovely mixed media work [...]
Hello Botto
“Professionally, it’s our responsibility to leverage minds and hands when charity calls,” says Bryan Flynn of Botto Arts. “Personally, I’ve lost too many people in my life to cancer. When I learned about the Memories project, and the Open Submissions program, I had pencil to paper in the same moment.” And we’re really pleased that [...]
Meet Robert Cohen
Another great artist we found for the book through our Open Submissions process is Robert Cohen. Since the 1980s he has been exploring forms in the digital realm, creating his unique abstract 3D pieces. Not only that, but he also works with several other artists under the banner of Artwerx Digital. The piece you see [...]
Hello Match Zimmerman
Today we’re letting you know about Match Zimmerman, another top artist whose work will appear in Memories. Match got in touch with us via our Open Submissions program and we sent him the poem Otherside, by Joe Kriss, to work on. In response, he’s done a great piece of art that will appear in the [...]
Welcome Johanna Velasco
Quite often we’ve found that the creatives who have really excelled in making an illustration for the Memories book have been touched profoundly by cancer themselves. Johanna Velasco is a designer based in the Philippines who got in touch with us via our Open Submissions process, took our brief and came up with a stunning [...]
Welcome Dona Vajgand, plus more news
We have several things to tell you about today, but let’s start with announcing the participation of the designer and illustrator Dona Vajgand. Based in Sombor, Serbia, her passion is painting and she found out about Memories online and joined the project through our Open Submissions set-up. You can check out her site here. According [...]
Check out Dines
Today we unveil another of our talented Open Submissions winners, the always-fresh Mr Dines. He’s a young digital designer who we’re proud to have on board. After training in design and typography at Southampton Solent University, Dines has taken his practice up to London. He’s the founder of Studio Blup and has built a strong [...]
Jili Allen: Memories to remember
One of the artists that submitted work via our Open Submissions process was the Glasgow-based illustrator and designer Jili Allen, and today we’re welcoming her to the project with a blog post letting everyone know about her fantastic creativity. Not only is her artwork skillfully executed, but there are touching reasons behind why Jili wanted [...]
James McGregor illustrates Otherside
What a long weekend, eh? It kicked off with a royal wedding and seems to be winding up with the elimination of a reviled global terrorist. History as it happens. But wait… though not as internationally momentous, the Memories project has news of its own that is very dear to all of us. We’d like [...]
Hello Rheannon
Today we’re highlighting the work of Rheannon Cummins, a young designer based in Nottingham who has created an illustration for The Secret we Know – a story by Tom Stables about how his partner discovered she had cancer, and the emotional turmoil that resulted. Rheannon got in touch with us offering to do an image [...]
Introducing Nancy Mungcal
After we sent Nancy Mungcal the story written by Tom Stables for Memories, she created an incredible, symbolic image of some scissors to go with it. The image is surprising, really, because normally her illustration work includes little characters like the one you see here. Her submission for the book is full of intricacy, and [...]
Open submissions – winners announced!
When we started planning the Memories book, we wanted to think of a way that the project could not just benefit a cancer charity, but could also foster new creative talent. So we devised ‘open submissions’. For ten of the stories in the book, Rishi, Stu, Antony and I invited artists with an established profile [...]
Paul Garland
A colourful Memories welcome to Paul Garland, a UK-based illustrator selected to work on Gordon Kirk’s story New Life. Helping out with the project was particularly meaningful for Paul. His wife was diagnosed with Breast Cancer a year ago and they’ve had a very tough year. “As my daughter is of a similar age to [...]